Confessions of a former bastard cop
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The historical amnesia of culture warriors
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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May we all be so brave as 19th century female husbands
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From anti-racism to psychobabble
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Ashoka's moral empire
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Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence
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Elegy for a country's seasons [2014]
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The weight of James Arthur Baldwin
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The obesity era - Blaming individuals for obesity may be altogether wrong
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Welcome to Laufskálarétt – The autumn ritual of wild horse herding in Iceland's Kolbeinsdalur Valley
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What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
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Confessions of a former bastard cop - An essay by a former police officer on why police are like this
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How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral | A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within
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Frames of consciousness - Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on?
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What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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Is marriage over?
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Chabuduo! Close enough…
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William Deresiewicz: Solitude and leadership
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Ozark life - A photo essay of the intimate beauty of daily life in rural Arkansas
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Essays, photos, and discussion about prairie ecology, restoration, and management
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The web is a customer service medium
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In pictures: Grounded aircraft around the world
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Photographer Maria Lax comes from a northern Finnish town where UFO sightings were common – so she set about looking for answers
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Nihilism
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Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change
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I and thou: A bigfoot encounter
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"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis
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The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?
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Modesty means more, not less
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War by other means: Syria’s economic struggle
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On the line between truth and fiction when writing about your family
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Don Norman: Technology first, needs last
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Good challenges vs. bad challenges
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Unified theory of evolution
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How did Washington, DC fans experience the World Series in 1924, 1925 & 1933? Check out these photos.
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Romantic regimes
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Kids? Just say no
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Politics and the English language
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Where theory meets chalk, dust flies - A photo survey of the blackboards of mathematicians
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
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Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
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Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays
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The play deficit
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The dreams of an inventor in 1420
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On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began
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Broken sleep: People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
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Debunking debunked
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