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Culture

Dual Perspectives – Clive Thompson

“Games create drama and excitement,” as Jane McGonigal, one of the leading thinkers in the field, told the crowd at this year’s O’Reilly Emerging Technology

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Culture

‘The Cranky Copyright Book’ Joe Clark

There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and

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Culture

It’s time for an ambitious new literature of the workplace

[M]any contemporary writers are notably silent about a key area of our lives: our work ….

It used to be a central ambition of novelists

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Culture

The Making of Zach Galifianakis

The considerable cult that has grown up around Galifianakis’s performances over the last few years, both live and on video-sharing sites like YouTube, has done

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Culture

Fiction reaches a new level – Telegraph

A vague interest in literary form has hovered for some time at the edges of contemporary gaming.

via Endpaper – Fiction reaches a new level

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Culture

Culture May Be Encoded in DNA

Though birds and humans have clearly followed different evolutionary paths, birdsong culture can still inform theories of human culture.

via Culture May Be Encoded in

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Culture

Poets, Academia – A Couplet in Conflict

Picture Keats or Rilke or Whitman at a faculty meeting…

via Ideas and Trends – Poets, Academia – A Couplet in Conflict – NYTimes.com.…

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Culture

Too smart for our own good

The premise behind any worry that kids are getting dumber is that this is a bad thing, a development to deprecate. If Johnny can’t write …

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