From the category archives:
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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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Science
[D]ifferential equations ….represent the most powerful tool humanity has ever created for making sense of the material world.
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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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Media
[A]s recently as four or five years ago, to be a member of Manhattan media, you weren’t rich, but you lived as a rich person
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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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Culture
A second thing that “The Program Era” does well […] is to treat the world of creative writing as an ant farm, in which the
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