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Google’s $350 Billion Haircut
The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues. That could mean a massive devaluation for both Google and Facebook.
Rick Webb
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Which Half Is Wasted?
Oct 16
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I Met a Nazi on My Vacation
This past August, I vacationed for three weeks with my girlfriend and her father. We traveled throughout England by rail, visiting…
Baratunde
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Active Citizenship
Oct 18
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How To Identify A Toxic Culture Before Accepting A Job Offer
With everyone touting their “amazing” culture it can be hard to tell who is telling the truth. Here are a few red flags to look for.
Fast Company
Oct 17
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The 15-Minute Daily Habit That Makes Me a Better Worker
Last fall, after successfully maintaining a minor journaling habit for a while, I decided to start a bullet journal. It became my go-to…
Holly Trantham
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The Slow-Up
Oct 10
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All the Dumb Things You Can Say About Romance Novels, In One Convenient Place
As you may have guessed from the title, I did not come away from Robert Gottlieb’s romance fiction roundup for The New York Times Book…
Ron Hogan
Sep 26
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The Beholden Age of Television
My ex told me that if I liked the new season of BoJack Horseman, I might actually not have a soul. That sounded a little severe, so I…
Miles Klee
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Bad Art
Oct 16
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Forget trying to love yourself.
Figure out why you’re lying to yourself.
Flannery Wilson
Oct 5
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How Much Does a Period Cost, Anyway?
Oh, did you want to buy a house? Sorry, you spent the down payment on tampons.
Hanna Brooks Olsen
Oct 16
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Teenage Text Dodging and the Rise of a Global ABC
How the loss of traditional language skills of our teenagers can potentially save our world
Barbara De Roos
Sep 15
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The Sky Through The Window
‘What good is life anyway if you can’t laugh through it?’ her eyes continued to stare out into the tiny slice of open sky that was visible…
Sravani Saha
Oct 5
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The Ocean Is California Eternal
A personal history of the L.A. coast
Zan Romanoff
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Personal Geography
Oct 16
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This Is a True Story About White Castle on the Night Michael Jackson Died
When Michael Jackson died, in the early summer of 2009, it was the kind of celebrity death that my particular generation has become…
Hanif Abdurraqib
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Dining Out
Oct 16
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Beauty in the ‘Nervous’ Breakdown
Understanding the train wreck and taking control.
Halle Stern
Sep 18
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Of Noodles and Affection
I’m halfway somewhere between the bus stop and the out-of-town road. I’m wading through a small crowd on a half-lit sidewalk. As we walk…
Joseph Chibike
Oct 2
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IUDs: The Skydiving of Birth Control
Mostly fine, except the rare case when things go incredibly wrong
Stella J. McKenna
Sep 22
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Words, Words, Words; Decolonizing Our Self Perception
I find that decolonization is one of those concepts that means different things to a different people. There is the obvious case of the…
Amalthea Aelwyn
Sep 14
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Fork to Throat : The Fear of Choking
What Pseudodysphagia Feels Like
LJC Press
Oct 6
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A Therapist on What Sex Addiction Really Is
By Deborah Schiller As Told To Katie Heaney
The Cut
Oct 13
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How Understanding the Psychology of Running Can Influence Your Training
By giving deeper thought to minor details such lacing up and beginning your run, the benefits can go beyond the physical
Luke Bradshaw
Sep 18
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How My Best Friend Sexually Assaulted and Emotionally Manipulated Me for A Year
“Just so you know, we need to use condoms going forward,” I told my best friend after we fucked for the first time in July 2016. Let’s call…
Roslyn Talusan
Sep 25
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Is Mixed Reality The Future Of Computing?
We talked to Microsoft’s Alex Kipman and other industry leaders about what the blending of real and virtual means for human interaction…
Fast Company
Oct 15
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I Could Hate You If I Didn’t Love You
Caring for the ‘enemy’
S Lynn Knight
Oct 4
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And the Piano Played On…
A modern folk tale
Stephen Leatherdale
Sep 26
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Why Do We Keep Sending Women into the STEM Lion’s Den?
Our diversity efforts are ass-backwards.
Abbie
Aug 14
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How Aristotle Predicted Twitter and the Alt-Right
Moral development can’t begin until the passions are under control
Aaron Ross Powell
Sep 18
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‘Who Is Also a Lion’
How public restrooms explain Twitter and the social internet
Tom Scocca
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On Whose Authority
Oct 12
