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The Purpose of Life Isn’t to Be Happy

The term “happy” was..

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Zat Rana

Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable

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Ethan Zuckerman

Here’s what Chinese takeout menus can teach us about immigration

By Dolly Li

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AJ+

The truth about identifying as asexual in the Midwest

We’re just beginning to understand asexuality, but it isn’t anything new.

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Arielle
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On Living Loud

I’ve never been a quiet child. From my personality to the truth that drips from my lips. I’ve been exuberant. My presence is known and when…

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Dante Mesa
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We Don’t Know How to Count Dead People

Why are the most basic problems in medicine some of the hardest to solve? This series explores the big questions that science is still…

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Thomas Goetz
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Dating is dead

When I was in my twenties and had a date, this is what I would do. I would wake up early like it was Christmas and wash my car. Hand wash…

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The Angry Therapist
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Lessons learned from a week in the psych ward

Note: names have been omitted/changed to protect patient and staff privacy.

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Max Ellithorpe
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Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president

U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes

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The Economist
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The Problem with Nazis

The debate surrounding Charlottesville has become loud and complicated. Essentially everyone, except Donald Trump, David Duke, and some of…

Tobias Stone
Tobias Stone in Making Sense
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Fresh Out Da Box Premix

Riffs woke up, did his push ups and sit ups, waited for the guards to come unlock his cell, they came, he dapped up his cellmate Steve and…

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KOOL A.D. in Aztec Yoga
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The Unseen

Jozef avoided the saloons where they knew him, like Polska Stacya, because people there would have heard about Krystyna and he didn’t want…

Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie Pietrzyk in Reversing the River
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Why School Sucks (hint: it’s not because it’s “boring”)

Read the title. Now notice that I said school, NOT education. Yes, there is a difference.

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Isabella Bruyere

White Night: An American Ghost Story

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Zaron Burnett III
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Sex makes babies

As far as we can tell, no other animal knows this. Did our understanding of baby-making change the course of human history?

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Aeon Magazine

Are you a good person, or just insecure?

What makes someone a good person?

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Lidija Hilje

A Visual History of Trump Magazine Covers (Extended Edition)

NB: This is the second edition of this post, updated after six months of the Trump presidency. The organisation is thematic, but split into…

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Nick Hilton
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Building a VR Shopping Experience for the Web: Tips and Takeaways — Shopify

How 3D and virtual reality can be seamlessly embedded into online stores, using a new technology called WebVR.

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Daniel Beauchamp
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Tesla is building the world’s biggest battery. Here’s how it will work.

Get amped to learn about lithium-ion energy storage!

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Popular Science

Your Smartphone vs. Your PC

It’s no secret that the modern day smartphones is overtaking the desktop’s dominance as the primary gateway to the Internet and for media…

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Avi Barel
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Who Gets to Decide Who Has a Voice Online?

Cloudflare kicked the Daily Stormer offline in part because it could

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New York Magazine

4 Examples of How AR & VR Will Improve Customer Service

The internet made customer service less personal, can AR & VR change that?

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Scottie Gardonio
Creativitymore

The Value of Simple Words

There seems to be an idea floating around in some people’s minds that all written communication should be long, complex, and verbose. That…

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Jared Masterson

Why I write about my kids

Recently, I wrote an essay titled “I’m Done Pretending Men are Safe (Even My Sons).” I’ve taken a lot of heat for it, and multiple…

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Jody Allard

How To Be A Better Creative Thinker

“Creative Thinker” Now what sparks to mind when you hear the term? Starving artist? Tortured genius? I mean it can be hard to keep the…

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Glory Anna

What the Camber of a Moment Can Bring

The clock has started. I already wrote something about healing myself with homeopathic remedies. How I have an affinity for them, a…

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Samantha Wallen

What I Learnt from NOT Getting Published

You don’t always get what you want, but there’s still a way to make the most of it.

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Soumya John
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Quantifying YC’s “Make something people want”

Y Combinator is one of the world’s most renowned accelerators. Their slogan and main mantra is “Make something people want”. At first, this…

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Can Olcer

‘You can just hang out here’ — what I learned from the sudden failure of my first business.

The first business I started failed overnight. The failure was fast, it was brutal, it was completely unforseen.

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Jane Lindsey

A Complete Guide to Startup Advisors and Mentors

Knowledgeable, experienced, and well-connected mentors/advisors are crucial to a startup’s success.

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Josiah Humphrey

Confessions of an Insecure Entrepreneur

or how I learned to stop worrying and love the crazy.

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Gaurav Baheti

300 Women Just Came Forward About Their Harassment in Tech

Tech’s Dirty (Not So Little) Secret

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Allyson Kapin
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Why None of Us Should Be Happy About Latest Game Of Thrones Episode 6 Leak (*Spoiler Free*)

-As many of you may be aware, last night, HBO dropped the ball. I mean, really dropped the ball. Sometime around 2am EST, the streaming…

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Josh Parker

One-Star Yelp Reviews of LA’s Famed Attractions

“It’s letters on a hillside. That’s it. Yawn.”

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Nicole Clark

Why Terrace House is What Reality Shows Needed

Whether you’re a chronic Netflix lover constantly found snuggled besides your laptop, or a reality show addict that’s seen every thing from…

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Leanna Chan

Young Women and Teen Girls Deserve Emmys Too.

Why are shows made for young women and teen girls still not taken seriously?

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Odalis G

The ‘Orphan Black’ Finale Proved That Happy Endings Are Totally Underrated

It’s fair to say that Orphan Black’s beloved Clone Club went into last weekend’s finale with a fair amount of trepidation, especially given…

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Jennifer Still
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3 Lies We Tell Ourselves About Life, Happiness and Success

Life is a constant game of playing hide and seek with the truth.

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Ayodeji Awosika

Rejection Sucks. So What Can We Do About It?

I finished the presentation and looked around at the sea of faces. Some were slowly nodding. Others were still weighing the proposal.

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Jake Wilder

Why Your Life Scares The Shit Out of You

Living is a risk. Do you take it or leave it?

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Shortia December

‘Knocked Up’?! How I embraced a non-linear life…

“I’m hoping this is a false alarm.” I texted the positive test results to my cousin.

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Heidi K. Isern

4 Ways to Transform Failure into Your Greatest Advantage

It’s time we rethink what ‘failure’ means.

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Melissa Chu
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Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president

U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes

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The Economist

Don’t Rip Down Those Statues

Don’t rip down those statues, not like this. In ten, twenty or fifty years there will be little memory of the severity of racial bigotry…

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Phil Hulbig

On the Front Line in Charlottesville

A mom recounts the experience of counter-protesting

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stephanie jo kent
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Militarism

There shall be no federal progress if we continue to ignore the warning President Eisenhower presented to us more than 60 years ago. In his…

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Are Nazis as American as Apple Pie?

The United States is still a long way from the fevered atmosphere of Germany in 1933

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Project Syndicate