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Culture
Revising the details, checking the facts, finding new archives: Those are what is most exciting for historians. Failing to give credit deliberately destroys the traces,
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Culture
Video games may have been an escape, or a respite, or a memory of fun and intense competition, but whatever they are to the people
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Culture
The more fragmented, individualistic and competitive a society, the more the common institutions with at least some child-rearing function—the church, the public school, the actual
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Culture
But even if Miller, like many a marketer who came before him, flogs his product too hard, his broadest point is well taken: We are
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Culture
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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Media
Magazine editors are among the most unhappy people in the country. This is especially true now, with the industry imploding. But it’s been true for
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Technology
As it kept coming up empty, Wolfram Alpha came to seem less like HAL 9000 and more like a chatbot. It’s been trained to respond
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