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Here is an image, picked from the notebooks of an eleven-year-old girl in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: a head portrait, in pencil, of a man in a dark suit…
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Class is still written into our psychology – working class folk are more empathic, selfless, vigilant and fatalistic
A new review looks at the psychology of social class in today's world and the implications this has for how we behave and our wellbeing. By Alex Fradera
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China Contributing $500 Million to Trump-Linked Project in Indonesia
The news comes amid contentious talks about the trade deficit between China and the U.S.
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Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug
The next big depression treatment might be ketamine, but how best to use it remains unknown.
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'The Simpsons' jumped the shark in one of its best episodes
By this point, Homer had many unbelievable achievements under his belt. Three seasons earlier, he went to space. But it's not how absurd the moment is that qualifies it for jumping the shark. It's what impact the moment has on the show's character.
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The Airports That Architects Want To Redesign The Most
If you could change any airport in the U.S., which would you choose? <em>Co.Design</em> posed the question to architects.
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Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks
The mathematicians Günter Ziegler and Martin Aigner have spent the past 20 years collecting some of the most beautiful proofs in mathematics.
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Dear iPhone—It Was Just Physical, and Now It’s Over - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
I can’t count the number of times I pulled out my phone just for the feeling of unlocking the screen and swiping through applications,…
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Monorepos in the Wild
Monolithic approaches to software development have quite a bad reputation, and rightfully so.
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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver | Atlas Obscura
One of the world's most hazardous jobs is known for its intense pressure.
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The Most-Cited Authors on Wikipedia Had No Idea
How a climate study by three Australians came to dominate the online encyclopedia.
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My Pleasant Suburb is Going a Little Bit Crazy
Dispatch from a distinctly modern suburban identity crisis in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Ironically, Alanis Morissette never got enough credit
From the start of her career, Morissette weaponized her rage about industry sexism into compelling, incisive music. Why didn’t people take her seriously?
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Your City's Grid May Be Locking in the Summer Heat
By comparing buildings to water molecules, researchers found that the form of a city can intensify the urban heat island effect.
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The Beauty of Fatigue: Slow (SLO) Road to Eroica – Tenzin Namdol | The Radavist
The Beauty of Fatigue: Slow (SLO) Road to Eroica Words by Tenzin Namdol, photos by Ultra Romance Something happened to me while I was riding the 90-mile NOVA Coastal Route of Eroica California, I star...
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Chinese surveillance programme mines data from workers’ brains
Government-backed surveillance projects are deploying brain-reading technology to detect changes in emotional states in employees on the production line, the military and at the helm of high-speed trains
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Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift
There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit.
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The last man who knew everything
It hardly seems likely that the life of an obscure Anglican clergyman should recommend itself to the attention of a modern biographer. But Sabine Baring-Gould happens to have been the last man who knew everything.
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If you haven’t jumped on the Vue.js train yet, it’s time to jump on the Vue.js train.
This post is an unapologetic attack on other front-end frameworks and a blatant recommendation for switching to Vue.
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