Post Overview
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Analysis
11 years ago
+20 20 0What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?
Exploring the pristine ruins of Second Life and other online spaces
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Analysis
11 years ago
+14 14 0When You're Poor, Money Is Expensive
For tens of millions of Americans without a bank account, paying a bill isn't just an odyssey. It's a part-time job.
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Review
11 years ago
+17 17 0The Nazis' Forgotten Anti-Smoking Campaign
The Third Reich viewed tobacco as a threat to the health of the "chosen folk."
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Current Event
11 years ago
+5 5 0To stop terrorism, TSA requires that gadgets have power
Fliers to the US must prove their gadgets work.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+18 18 0Ouya announces $60/year subscription to unlock its full games library
Limited time offer, combined with lack of Ouya news, paints dark picture for Android console.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+11 11 0Sasha Frere-Jones: Brian Eno’s Quiet Influence
The genius of Brian Eno is in removing the idea of genius. His method is a rebuke to the assumption that a project can be powered by one person’s intent, or that intent is even worth worrying about. The growing influence of this idea, ironically, mak ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+4 4 0Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
It was probably legal. But was it ethical?
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Analysis
11 years ago
+14 14 0Orange Is the New Black's Irresponsible Portrayal of Men
The victims of the prison system the Netflix show satirizes are overwhelmingly male. Leaving them out reinforces old stereotypes that hurt both genders.
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Current Event
11 years ago
0 1 1Supreme Court: Companies Can't Be Required to Pay for Birth Control
A big win for Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood in today's case on the Affordable Care Act contraception mandate
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Review
11 years ago
+18 18 0I Sent All My Text Messages in Calligraphy for a Week
And here's what I learned.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+12 12 0Transformers 4: Will It Never End?
Michael Bay's latest installment is ridiculous, ill-humored, and—at nearly three hours—the most interminable yet.
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Review
11 years ago
+15 15 0A Bar in Britain That Doesn’t Serve Beer
In Britain's "dry bars," alcohol-free is the new alcohol
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Analysis
11 years ago
+13 13 0Punctuated Equilibrium
Will autocorrect save the apostrophe, and slow language’s evolution?
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Analysis
11 years ago
+16 16 0Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?
The dead-mother plot is a classic of children’s fiction, but animated movies have supplied a new twist: the fun father has taken her place.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+23 23 0When Slang Becomes a Slur
The linguist who testified against the Redskins in their trademark proceedings explains why the team's name can't be separated from historical hatreds.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+12 12 0Illinois university offering sports scholarships... for League of Legends players
Up to 50 percent off board and tuition for accomplished gamers.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+9 9 0Why Americans Call Football 'Soccer' (and Why Other People Don't)
The British started it.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+23 23 0A Feminist Leader Who Became a Men's-Rights Activist
Karen DeCrow served as president of the National Organization for Women, but she often broke with feminist orthodoxy.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+17 17 0Facebook Is Expanding the Way It Tracks You and Your Data
The social giant is digging into information from your smartphone and tracking the other websites you visit.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+16 16 0Will California's Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools?
A judge said the state discriminates against poor and minority students by protecting the jobs of ineffective instructors. What will this mean for education?




















