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Culture

Lingering | n+1

Naturally everyone wants to believe that by spending time online we are not steadily depriving real art, thought, and journalism of the attention and—since so …

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Culture

Grade Grubber | n+1

Considered in the most cynical light, the American system of education as it now exists is a status machine, absorbing young citizens, sorting them according …

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Culture

Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy | n+1

Reading Craigslist, I feel as though I am dipping my cup straight into the swift-flowing stream of human need.

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Culture

Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft

As Michael Agger writes:

We all can’t become motorcycle mechanics. And while Crawford would not be so unsubtle as to suggest direct prescriptions for happiness,

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Technology

Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web – opinion – 05 June 2009 – New Scientist

[The Web] connects people as they make and follow hyperlinks to a degree that results in complex properties no one expected. It has something like

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Culture

Ross Douthat on ‘Digital Barbarism – A Writer’s Manifesto’

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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Culture

John Gray: the poster boy for misanthropy

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

The Psychology Behind Item Collecting And Achievement Hoarding (In Gaming)

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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