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La cathédrale engloutie

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Why a Great Wave of Nostalgia Is Sweeping Through China

A number of studies have revealed that when we suffer from certain psychological ailments—loneliness, social isolation, self-doubt, negative mood, and the feeling that life is meaningless—nostalgia can act as a coping mechanism. Such ailments can cause the mind to sift through its cache of memories, summoning up those with a particular narrative signature. Researchers analyzed hundreds of nostalgic accounts, and found that they typically featured family and friends, a momentous event, or, often, both. The participant describing the memory was almost always the protagonist, and the narrative arc was generally one of redemption: at first, conditions may have seemed grim or hopeless, but eventually things were resolved in a favorable ending.

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Sex, Economics, and Austerity

We can reject the homophobia but take up the question they raise: What is the connection between Keynes the great lover and Keynes the great economist? To answer it, we have to acknowledge that economics is not a morally neutral science but rather is intimately connected with questions about what we want from life , including the type of sex we want to have.

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Vincent Ganivet Mirror  ::  Santiago Taccetti Wasted Nights

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Upstart: How to Negotiate a Job Offer

TwoX: "Don't be afraid to ask for more"

Should I Disclose Salary Requirements?

Both Sides of the Table: No

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The thing is, it's really hard to grow a social site that has fallen from previous heights.  MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal... lots of people have tried to resurrect these sites, and it has rarely, if ever, worked.

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Beautiful.

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If there’s one thing comic book nerds like doing it’s over-thinking the smallest details. Here we turn our attention to the hypothetical legal ramifications of comic book tropes, characters, and powers. Just a few examples: Are mutants a protected class? Who foots the bill when a hero damages property while fighting a villain? What happens legally when a character comes back from the dead?

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This site makes fun of biglaw for a reason - it’s what we endure on a daily basis and it tries to show the reality of biglaw. We see partners around us every day who are unhappy because they spent most of their time defining their lives by their job. That’s why we want to get out of biglaw. That’s not real success. 

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Please Do Not Enter

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Is it not a Kafkaesque tale? One day a boy wakes up and is given a helmet, rifle, fieldpack and a integrated load bearing vest and is told to serve the nation for two years while his female peers mock him, fly overseas, and enjoy themselves in general. ... 

The fact that guys cannot shut up about the army is poignantly indicative of an inability to bridge that gap of understanding. ... Only Singaporean society is sick enough to actually take photos of NSFs doing the most innocent things like taking a seat in a MRT and put it on STOMP.

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Pleasure and the good life

Imagine the inverse of Nozick’s Experience Machine: a device that does not interfere with my achieving great things in the real world but deactivates the pleasure centers of the brain so that I never enjoy anything I do. The result would be a far cry from anything we would regard as a good life. Nor is it enough to allow only the “glad apprehension” that something objectively good has occurred. Enjoying the taste of food helps make for a good life, even if I don’t also feel satisfaction at having partaken of healthy nourishment.

Less, Please

All day long I can look forward to a popsicle. The persistent anxiety that fills the rest of my life is calmed for as long as I have the flavor of something good in my mouth. And though it’s true that when the flavor is finished the anxiety returns, we do not have so many reliable sources of pleasure in this life as to turn our nose up at one that is so readily available, especially here in America.

Joy

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High school

if humans really do feel things most intensely during adolescence, and if, at this same developmental moment, they also happen to be working out an identity for the first time—“sometimes morbidly, often curiously, preoccupied with what they appear to be in the eyes of others as compared with what they feel they are,” as the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote—then it seems safe to say this: Most American high schools are almost sadistically unhealthy places to send adolescents.

Why You Never Truly Leave High School

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On Friendship

Friendship provokes us to pause a moment, shrug off our workaday carapace, and just be flesh and blood. Like a guardian spirit, a friend may ask and then reorient us a bit, a leverage like New Year’s Eve. Traction, context: to remain among the living, hugged and germane, is the idea. When we blossom, does our bouquet have a scent? Life is not a dogfight. We pile together like puppies for warmth and sniffing, or wriggle, wag, and stilt-walk instead of quarreling. Make me not feel nightmarishly alone, or even lonesome.

On Friendship

Online we can rant, debate, philosophize and one-up each other and all of that other stuff doesn’t matter.  Online our discussions can last for days, but in flesh and blood we only have 2 hours to figure out what friendship is.

On a flesh and blood friend and a cup of coffee