From the category archives:
Culture
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Culture
Where the critics of copyright perceive the Internet age as a potential Renaissance being blocked by overconsolidated corporations, Helprin worries, plausibly, that the spirit of
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He thinks there are far too many humans, that we are a plague on the planet and a rapacious horde, and that our desires for
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Culture
Item collection has been a staple of video games since Pac-Man swallowed his first cherry. Since then, we’ve collected stars, coins, rings, nuts, bolts, packages,
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Culture
The market can’t be trusted to keep supplying you with what you like, because the goal of the market is not to have sold things
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Culture
For centuries, the selection of the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been steeped in the mysticism of a bygone world.
On the windswept Tibetan
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Culture
Crawford argues that the ideologists of the knowledge economy have posited a false dichotomy between knowing and doing. The fact of the matter is that
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Culture
So how do we come up with new ideas? How do we learn to think outside of normal parameters? Are the processes in place for
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Culture
The 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters chronicles the surprisingly stirring struggles of Washington algebra teacher and Donkey Kong wizard Steve
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