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#Happy: The Dictatorship of Happiness on Social Media
We spend hours on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, seduced by their promise: to be able to share our life and our opinions with the whole world. In this virtual world, everyone is happy. Everyone has perfect bodies, lives fulfilled lives in stylish houses surrounded by beautiful friends and family. Everyone shows off and everyone judges. But this irresistible quest for recognition can quickly turn into addiction, wreaking havoc on our mental health. And teenagers are the most susceptible. In this film, we examine the real dangers of the “happycracy” promoted on social networks and hear from some of its young victims.
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Co-authoring: twice as fun or double the trouble?
When it comes to co-authoring, what are some of the issues and complexities about writing a book with another author?
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Sick and tired of the gaslighting
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My gender was secretly changed as a baby and I didn’t know for 22 years
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Know Yourself Better by Writing What Pops into Your Head
The exercise of writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge
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How writing 'made us human' – an 'emotional history' from ancient Iraq to the present day
Evidence suggests that writing was probably invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next?
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The enduring gift of stories
A father finds a Christmas story that works for his infant daughter — and for the world.
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50 years on, finding profit in 'truth' on JFK case
On the very day John F. Kennedy died, a cottage industry was born. Fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, it's still thriving
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The Great Debate-A journalistic revolution
Our mainstream newspapers, websites, magazines and network news broadcasts, in pursuing objectively, report as if every opinion, no matter how uninformed, deserves equal weight â and journalists dare not come down on one side or the other. Balance is the new objectivity.
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The secrets of the world's happiest cities
What makes a city a great place to live – your commute, property prices or good conversation?
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Agencies can’t always tell who’s dead and who’s not, so benefit checks keep coming
In the past few years, Social Security paid $133 million to beneficiaries who were deceased. The federal employee retirement system paid more than $400 million to retirees who had passed away. And an aid program spent $3.9 million in federal money to pay heating and air-conditioning bills for more than 11,000 of the dead.
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You Are Boring
Everything was going great until you showed up. You see me across the crowded room, make your way over, and start talking at me. And you don’t stop...
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China to loosen one-child policy and abolish labour camps
China has pledged to loosen its one-child policy and end a controversial "re-education through labour" programme, state media reported on Friday, days after the conclusion of a meeting of top Communist party leaders in Beijing.
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Majority of U.S. citizens say illegal immigrants should be deported
More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country's 11 million illegal immigrants should be deported, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday that highlights the difficulties facing lawmakers trying to reform the U.S. immigration system.
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The State of work in the Age of Anexiety
From 1954 thought 1974, American workers brought home most of the wealth that they produced. Since 1974, they've steadily lost power—and they're getting just a fraction of the wealth they produce today.
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The American Police State
A young sociologist interrogates the criminal-justice system and tries to stay out of the spotlight.
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5 Insanely Childish Ways People Are Dealing With Grudges
In modern civilization, if you have a grievance with another human being, you can't simply bash them over the head with a mastodon bone and toss them in a tar pit. No, as the following touched souls demonstrate, you must psychologically torment your nemesis until your vendetta ends up as a blurb scored to "Yakety Sax" on the evening news. Here are five individuals who are the earthly incarnates of George Costanza.
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Software Is Reorganizing the World
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that in other times and places spurred young people to look abroad for opportunity. Indeed, it is similar to the factors that once pushed millions of people to emigrate from their home countries to make their home in America. Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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In God we trust, maybe, but not each other
You can take our word for it. Americans don’t trust each other anymore. We’re not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient of democracy — trust in the other fellow — has been quietly draining away.
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'Let me keep my dead husband's sperm'
A woman has begun a legal bid to prevent her dead husband's frozen sperm from being destroyed.
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