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Created Equal: Parallel Portraits of Cultural Difference
Created Equal: Parallel Portraits of Cultural Difference

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The Best Books of 2010: Business, Life & Mind
The Best Books of 2010: Business, Life & Mind

Time thieves, irrational pragmatists, and what bike-sharing has to do with coming out in science.

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The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families
The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families

Why four in ten people are timetravelers from 1960.

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PICKED: <em>Influencers</em>
PICKED: Influencers

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On Words
On Words

A modern-day Helen Keller moment, or why the currency of communication is more complex than we think.

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Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan’s Prophecy
Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan’s Prophecy

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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Denis Dutton’s Provocative Darwinian Theory of Beauty
Denis Dutton’s Provocative Darwinian Theory of Beauty

Why the cultural conditioning of your eye has nothing on the evolutionary biology of it.

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5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice
5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice

The psychology of spaghetti sauce and why too many jams make you lose your appetite.

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Around the World in 80 Diets: Portraits of What People Across the Globe Eat in an Average Day
Around the World in 80 Diets: Portraits of What People Across the Globe Eat in an Average Day

From Bangladesh to Brazil, or what photojournalism can reveal about food and cultural context.

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