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The Attack on Truth
We are entering an age of willful ignorance. By Lee McIntyre.
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A brief history of yarn in video games
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that he would rather take up knitting than review video games—as though the two were mutually exclusive. Lately, it seems like that couldn't be further from the truth. At E3 this week, Electronic Arts unveiled a lovely game called Unravel, where you play as a tiny yarn character that slowly unravels as it moves through the level. Although that sounds a little like a metaphor for the slow but inexorable march...
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Malcolm Liepke - “All That We Might Become”
Figurative artist Malcolm Liepke paints expressive images of men and women with increasing sensuality and range of emotions. The gestural quality of his oil paintings (previously covered here) ...
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Giving Ghost App Ghosts a Face and Name
May 14th 2014 a woman by the name of Laura Harrison posted a photo of what she claimed her daughter's boyfriend took a picture the night her daughter was going to have their baby. Suddenly, June of 2015 the photo has gone viral as a "great catch". For me, it was immediately obvious that this was a ghost app...
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The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Was one of psychology’s most controversial studies about individual fallibility or broken institutions?
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The Modernized Slave Labor System: Also Known as the Prison Industrial Complex
The united states prison system, not only a machine for mass incarceration, but a machine for modernized slave labor.
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True Blue
A brief history of ultramarine
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How We Are Sick: Diagnosis
Maybe I’m dying. It’s a thought I’ve had a lot throughout my life. As a child I was paranoid and constantly frightened by everyone’s seemingly fragile health. That comes from being the daughter of someone who is chronically ill. My mother was in and out of the hospital, which meant a lot of my time was spent in and out of the hospital waiting rooms. As I got older... By Al Rosenberg. (March)
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Teachings
A summer stint in a hospital, where poetry is necessary medicine. By Win Bassett.
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What Poverty Does to the Young Brain - The New Yorker
For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin.
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What's the Difference Between a Homeless Man and a Saint Who Both Say They Talk to God?
"Madness" used to be considered an affliction of the spirit—demonic possessions, or Godly visions. Now it's treated as a medical issue. What does this mean for contemporary believers?
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The History of the English Language, Animated
“The Sun never sets on the English language.”
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Does our terror of dying drive almost everything we do?
In October 1984, a young Skidmore College professor, Sheldon Solomon, traveled to a Utah ski lodge to introduce what would become a major theory of social psychology. The setting was a conference of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, a prestigious professional organization. Solomon’s theory explained that people embrace cultural worldviews and strive for self-esteem largely to cope with the fear of death. The reception he got was as frosty as the snow piled up outside.
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It wasn’t just the Armenians: The other 20th century massacres we ignore
This week is being marked as the 100th anniversary of the killings of more than a million Armenians during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Despite considerable opposition from the Turkish government, the anniversary is bringing renewed attention to an often overlooked historical issue, with President Obama in particular facing criticism for not using the word "genocide" to describe the killings.
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Invisible Atheists
Last December, DAR AL IFTA, a venerable Cairo-based institution charged with issuing Islamic edicts, cited an obscure poll according to which the exact number of Egyptian atheists was 866. The poll provided equally precise counts of atheists in other Arab countries: 325 in Morocco, 320 in Tunisia, 242 in Iraq, 178 in Saudi Arabia, 170 in Jordan, 70 in Sudan, 56 in Syria, 34 in Libya, and 32 in Yemen. In total, exactly 2,293 nonbelievers in a population of 300 million.
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Ten of the world’s most beautiful bookshops
From an Argentinian theatre and a Dutch church to an underground car park in China, BBC Culture picks the loveliest bookstores around the globe.
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Scientists are skeptical about the secret blood test that has made Elizabeth Holmes a billionaire
Faster, cheaper, better. An innovation that accomplishes those three things has the potential to disrupt an industry. But such innovations are rare. Theranos, a company founded by Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Holmes in the fall of 2003 (she dropped out a few months later) has generated a lot of buzz for developing a revolutionary approach to the blood test.
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Is LSD about to return to polite society?
For 40 years, Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, has believed psychedelics are an effective treatment for depression and anxiety. Now a growing number of scientists agree
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Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts?
Throughout evolutionary history, we never saw anything like a montage. So why do we hardly notice the cuts in movies?
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Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
A controversial disease revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness. One day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. His parents had no idea where the guttural tic came from. They figured it was springtime allergies.
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