rabbit hole

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Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?

The pernicious spread of garbage language.

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Doomsday app games about plague and disaster are going viral in China

"The best way to get rid of fear is to face the fear itself," wrote a Chinese game news site.

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“We never fall twice into the same abyss. But we always fall in the same way, in a mixture of ridicule and dread.”

Éric Vuillard 

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“Progress and catastrophe are two sides of the same coin.”

Hannah Arendt

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Why it's time to stop worrying about your productivity

For millennia, our quest as humans has been to be more productive. But in 2020 this quest will become pointless.

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Is a Sad Song Sad for Everyone?

Researchers explore how different cultures respond to the same music

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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/31/americans-are-far-more-religious-than-adults-in-other-wealthy-nations/

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There are more people who have learned English as a second/foreign language than there are native speakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

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All the Hip-Hop References in Hamilton: A Track-by-Track Guide

There are many ways in which Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking new musical Hamilton is quintessentially hip-hop, and many of them don’t have a thing ...

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The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a different person

There has always been something different about Paul Zimmer.

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Premier League Average Weekly Wages Per Season

A Flourish data visualisation by Kieran

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Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance

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Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here’s Why He’s Worried.

The record executive who made the leap to Silicon Valley looks back on the decade in the music business, and sees a major problem on the horizon.

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To understand the far right, look to their bookshelves | Elif Shafak

From Jordan Peterson to Thilo Sarrazin, a new rightwing intelligentsia is rewriting history, says novelist and political scientist Elif Shafak

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The female problem: how male bias in medical trials ruined women's health

Centuries of female exclusion has meant women’s diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remain a total mystery

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The Story of Your Life

How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative can shape who you are—and is a fundamental part of being human.

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Why stories matter for children’s learning

What are your kids reading in the new year? What kids read has a strong impact on their perceptions of reality.