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Ten ways to lose an argument
Show of hands — who made it through the election season without getting sucked into at least one infuriating argument on Facebook?
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Fighting words
If a couple of small-town activists can’t settle a dispute without slugging each other, what hope is there for all the blood-wracked corners of the world — North Philadelphia, Ferguson, Gaza, Guerrero? For any of us?
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Alma Sánchez-Eppler’s ‘They Extract!’
Toward a transparent creative process
Playwright Alma Sánchez-Eppler is simultaneously working on both a play and a larger artistic experiment, by sharing the artistic process on social media in real time.
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Vandalism in the national parks
The impulse to defile
What’s art, what’s vandalism, and when is it just time for the human race to put a lid on itself? The story of the woman who decided to leave her very personal imprint on some of our greatest national parks raises the question anew.
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Witches in popular culture
Witches didn't disappear in the modern era — they're still alive and well in popular culture.
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Trigger unhappy: warnings that get in the way
Last spring, the concept of “trigger warnings” — long used in feminist chat rooms and self-help blogspaces to flag users about graphic content related to sexual assault or rape — spilled over to the academic world. Is our sensitivity to others' trauma really helping?
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Walmart and seat belts
Tracy Morgan and Princess Diana
If we had learned anything from Princess Diana's death, would Tracy Morgan have been wearing a seat belt when his limo was mowed down by a Walmart truck?
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Closing ranks behind Ray Rice
One consequence of choosing our role models based on things that have no intrinsic correlation to character is that sometimes these people mess up.
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Treasures from the Bodleian in New York
The brainiest room in the world
Marks of Genius: Treasures from the Bodleian Library encloses as much of the human mind and spirit as a single room can contain. Maybe even more than a computer.
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Remembering Joan Rivers (three)
The person and the persona
Joan Rivers had to continually perfect her face because that face had become the mask of comedy itself.
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