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Here's why women across India are sharing images of themselves in ripped jeans
Uttarakhand’s CM Tirath Singh Rawat said that women are setting a “bad example” for society and leading to substance abuse by wearing ripped jeans.
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Dr. Seuss books – to cancel or not to cancel?
It is right to rethink old literature. But does cancel culture amount to book burnings? Sooner or later, everybody gets cancelled, but I could not imagine why anybody would pick on Dr. Seuss, a childhood favorite of mine.
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If We Want To End Homelessness, We Need To End Social Darwinism
Homelessness has become a social disaster on a scale unseen since the Great Depression. It’s a structural crisis that’s escalated to a degree that, despite the best efforts of status-quo neoliberalism to hand-wave it away, can no longer be denied – and neither can its causes.
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How To Escape The Dangers of Overthinking
"Thinking hurts" — this is how the German philosopher Georg Simmel is said to have consoled his students. The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965) would give this ironic remark of his teacher an ethical twist by noting that "thinking" can also hurt others.
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The Coup We Are Not Talking About
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
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Whether it's 2020 or Baby Shark: Study offers clues on how to stop thinking about it
A new neuroimaging study offers a first look at what happens in the brain when we try to stop thinking about one thing in order to make room for new ideas. The findings offer clues on how to be more productive when studying and working. They could also lead to new therapies for trauma and anxiety disorders.
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Why You Should Hate Your Job
Do you like your job? Maybe you do, but I think you should reevaluate. At the very least, I think you should be uncomfortable with the fact that you live in a system that compels you to have a job, particularly if that job is neither necessary for your own well-being nor the well-being of others.
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70-year-old Taco Bell employee surprised with tip of a lifetime
A 70-year-old Taco Bell employee was surprised with the tip of a lifetime after his community came together to thank him. For the past 20 years, Joe Deciccio has worked the drive-thru window at a South Daytona store -- handing out smiles and friendly greetings along with food orders.
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We Need Five Days’ Pay for Four Days’ Work
Working time reduction has always been used as a way of distributing available work and reducing unemployment. In our era of crisis, we need to fight for a four-day week.
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Scientists Discover Spooky Influence On Baby Name Choices
Baby names go in and out of style, but have you ever wondered why we prefer certain names over others? Believe it or not, the explanation may lie in part with the way the keys are arranged on our comp...
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How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?
When I first spoke with Joseph Tainter in early May, he and I and nearly everyone else had reason to be worried. A few days earlier, the official tally of Covid-19 infections in the United States had climbed above one million, unemployment claims had topped 30 million and the United Nations had warned that the planet was facing “multiple famines of biblical proportions.” George Floyd was still alive, and the protests spurred by his killing had not yet swept the nation, but a different kind of protest, led by white men armed with heavy weaponry, had taken over the Michigan State Legislature building.
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3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are shared online daily. Can you sort real from fake?
In an age of democracy via social media, platforms are struggling to combat visual mis/disinformation such as 'spliced' images and deepfakes. Digital media literacy has never been so important.
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New Study: Once Again, The Mainstream Media Is A Bigger Problem In Spreading Disinformation Than Social Media
We've discussed in the past Yochai Benkler's excellent book "Network Propaganda," (and had Benkler on our podcast) showing (with a ton of data) how the inclination many have to immediately blame social media for the spread of...
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Drivers have hit demonstrators 104 times since George Floyd protests began
Amid thousands of racial justice protests nationwide since George Floyd's death, over a hundred drivers have plowed into crowds marching in roadways. Those included 8 cops. Prosecutors determined that 43 of the incidents were malicious, and have charged 39 drivers.
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Lewis Hamilton: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020
Find out why Lewis Hamilton is on this year’s list
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I directed ‘Cuties.’ This is what you need to know about modern girlhood.
We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.
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Sleep Experts Make the Case Against Daylight Saving Time
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine called for the abolishment of seasonal time changes last week
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Who Gets Cheated on Most Often?
We all have been there. Cheating in a test, cheating in a UNO match, and whatnot. But while those innocent instances of cheating usually reflected our innocence, as we grew up, the word cheating took on a much more severe form. It was no more about asking someone an answer to a question in our exam. Instead, it became more about breaking someone’s heart or betraying someone’s trust.
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COVID-19 makes boat sales soar as families seek social distancing on the water
Following his March visit to the Greater Philadelphia Boat Show, Gary Kleinschmidt decided, with a mixture of guilt and enthusiasm, that it might be the right time to replace his 22-foot bow rider with a slightly larger boat. Surely, he thought, in the midst of all the unemployment and financial uncertainty unleashed by COVID-19, boat owners and dealers would be desperate to make a deal.
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'Askers' vs. 'Guessers'
In Ask Culture it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes.
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