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How much privacy do you have with your smartphone?
How Big Brother works – maybe
That smartphone you’re carrying around really isn’t a private device at all, and soon the police may be allowed to ask for it when they pull you over.
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Freeze! It’s the library police!
Library Squad! A group of enraged, middle-aged librarians. We’re brainy. We’re relentless. We’ll hunt you down. We’ll never give up.
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How A DNA ethnicity test made me realize I’m American
A vial of spit and a couple of months later, a DNA test revealed my ethnic makeup — but what did it really tell me?
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A call from Allen Ginsberg
"Interesting" encounters at the underground paper The Drummer. Ah, the '60s.
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Online personality quizzes
Who am I?
Think twice before you assess “What Disneyland theme park do you belong in?” Is knowing, scientifically, that you’re an Epcot type worth the price of your privacy?
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Go down, Twitter
What would happen if God communicated with Moses, not through a burning bush, but through social media?
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In defense of uselessness
There is no higher calling than doing something gorgeous for no reason in particular, and it is time to stop apologizing for it.
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The virtues of no opinion
What's wrong with waiting until all the facts are in?
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The millennial phenomenon of HBO's 'Girls'
Does Lena Dunham speak for her generation?
The struggles of Millennials, while in some ways similar to the struggle of all generations at this age, are not carbon copies because society has progressed, and the economy has digressed.
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