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How In-app Purchases Has Destroyed The Industry
I don't like writing negative articles that don't include a solution to the problem, but in this case, there is no solution. The state of in-app purchases has now reached a level where we have completely lost it. Not only has the gaming industry shot itself in the foot, hacked off their other foot, and lost both its arms ... but it's still engaging in a strategy that will only damage it further. Why are these gaming studios so intent of killing themselves?
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Sinners in the Hands: When is a church a cult?
Twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Grove is a member of a small, insular, and eccentric church in East Texas. Her parents think she’s being brainwashed. She insists she’s being saved.
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How Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ Defined the 1990s and Changed Music Forever
Here’s something that will make you feel old: Green Day’s masterpiece was released 20 years ago. Why it was a lot more influential than you think.
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The Sad History of the Super Bowl Halftime Show
If you’re a teenage girl who has a thing for pop stars in unhealthy relationships with Crest Whitestrips, chances are you’re psyched about Bruno Mars being the headliner in this Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show. If you’re over twenty, you’re probably none too pleased. Rest assured: It could be worse, much worse. Just look at the past 47 years.
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The Mind-Blowing Mathematics of Sunflowers
Why do the number of spirals in a sunflower match up with the integers 34, 55, 89 and 144 - numbers found in the famous Fibonacci Sequence? Scientific American editor John Matson explains.
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The Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh Feels Scarily Familiar
The violence that Sorkar and his neighbours faced is more troubling in the long-term than any isolated beating, however. Extremist groups are targeting Hindus nationwide. Travelling to visit the affected villages, I couldn’t help but wonder if things could get even worse. To me, the whole thing has concerning parallels with the build up to the genocide in Rwanda.
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China’s Deceptively Weak (and Dangerous) Military
In many ways, the PLA is weaker than it looks – and more dangerous.
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Women who served as Donut Dollies druing Vietnam were some of first women to serve in combat
Before women served in combat there were Donut Dollies in Vietnam. “We were a touch of home in a combat zone,” said Rene Johnson. The Donut Dollies were all college-graduates between the ages of 21 - 24 years old who worked for the Red Cross. They spent a one-year tour in Vietnam boosting the morale of the American troops.
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10 Football Facts Featuring U.S. Presidents
10 Football Facts Featuring U.S. Presidents
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The History of Computer Language Translation
We're still a long, long way from Star Trek universal translators, but we're getting there and we've come a long, long way.
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The true origin story of the football huddle
It was first invented by deaf players
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Why Russians feel adrift in a post-Soviet world
Today, many Russians see a country searching for a post-Soviet identity and striving for relevance. Of course, you won’t see this on television in the coming weeks. Sochi is becoming a Potemkin village, a phrase dating to the 18th century, when the governor of Crimea, Grigory Potemkin, so the story goes, had fake communities built along a river, a virtual utopia to impress the visiting Empress Catherine the Great.
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Aaron Swartz: a beautiful mind
Computer genius and online activist Aaron Swartz wanted to change the world - one download at a time. Then the US government decided enough was enough, with tragic consequences. By Paul McGeough.
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Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism)
Most of what Americans think they know about capitalism and communism is total nonsense. Here's a clearer picture.
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Slaverystories.org: Memoirs from American Slaves
These are tales of American slaves, written in their own words and spoken with their own voices. SlaveryStories is an open source project with the goal to share and preserve this important history.
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The End of American Exceptionalism
The attributes conservatives say make America special are ones they've undermined. Is it any wonder millennials are less impressed with their country?
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The Race to Save a Hauntingly Beautiful Photo Archive
A Romanian WWI photographer's 5000 unseen glass plate portraits — beautifully surreal and rapidly deteriorating — are entirely in the Public Domain and finally being digitized 30 years after his death.
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Mexico’s Vigilantes on the March
In the past, Mexico’s revolutions and internal wars have all been eruptions stemming from deep social problems. They unleashed enormous destructive power and took decades to run their course. But they were always followed by long periods of peace and economic development.
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How a 1908 Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Became an Internet Sensation
In early 1908, a magazine illustrator named Harry Grant Dart settled down to work on his new assignment: parodying the women's suffrage movement for the magazine Puck. Dart was a cartoonist from the golden age of newspaper illustration, when photographs were still rare in daily periodicals and innovative comics like Little Nemo in Slumberland and Krazy Kat were winning huge audiences.
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6 People Who Were Literally Erased From History
Dictators have long used photoshop to erase the past.
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