Reads tagged with “culture”

7 Platforms Changing the Future of Publishing and Storytelling

Cutting out the middleman, or what the Nobel Peace Prize has to do with harnessing the potential of tablets.

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Molly Landreth’s Tender Vintage Portraits of Modern Queer Life

What Victorian photography has to do with a watershed moment for modern democracy and human rights.

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Kurt Vonnegut Interviewed on NPR Inside Second Life

What it means to be a man without a country, or what Marx has to do with improving life through technology.

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The Exultant Ark: The Secret Emotional Lives of Animals

What dolphins at play have to do the mating rituals of butterflies and our capacity for kindness.

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Hume at 300: Timeless Philosophy for Timely Thinking

Why imagination is at the root of the mind, or how to become a bestselling historian.

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BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society

What The French Revolution has to do with the love of nature and the birth of the modern individual.

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The Five Greatest TED Talks of All Time

Democratizing knowledge, the meaning of life, and why everything we know about creativity is wrong.

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Happy Birthday, George Orwell: BBC’s 1954 1984 Adaptation

From Big Brother to Little Brother, or what Newspeak has to do with the API economy.

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Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change

Why having more options makes us more critical of ourselves and more politically passive.

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The Beekepers: Artful Documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder

What Aristotle’s hobby has to do with the future of agriculture and our best defense against disaster.

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Reads tagged with “culture”

Cutting out the middleman, or what the Nobel Peace Prize has to do with harnessing the potential of tablets.

What Victorian photography has to do with a watershed moment for modern democracy and human rights.

What it means to be a man without a country, or what Marx has to do with improving life through technology.

What dolphins at play have to do the mating rituals of butterflies and our capacity for kindness.

Why imagination is at the root of the mind, or how to become a bestselling historian.

What The French Revolution has to do with the love of nature and the birth of the modern individual.

Democratizing knowledge, the meaning of life, and why everything we know about creativity is wrong.

From Big Brother to Little Brother, or what Newspeak has to do with the API economy.

Why having more options makes us more critical of ourselves and more politically passive.

What Aristotle’s hobby has to do with the future of agriculture and our best defense against disaster.

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