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Blame the Boomers for a Hyperviolent America

The most recent installment of the New York Times' "Opinionator" column features an impassioned piece by Todd May about America's culture of violence. The article posits that our brutishness is rooted...

Advanced Magick for Beginners

From our partners at Lux Eterna Records: It’s finally here: the new full-length from The Contrarian, Advanced Magick for Beginners. The most personal Contrarian album to date, Advanced Magick boasts...

Higher Ed in the Age of TED: MOOCs Go Mainstream

If you work in education (or pay attention to this stuff), you've probably heard of MOOCs — so-called Massive Open Online Courses. Their aim is to make advanced learning broadly available to the masses,...

Vocational Respect in the Arts and Sciences

The notion that creative expression has value is not something that should be controversial. Throughout history, creativity has been rewarded in various ways, not all of them monetary, and none of them...

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Blame the Boomers for a Hyperviolent America
The most recent installment of the New York Times' "Opinionator" column features an impassioned piece by Todd May about...
Advanced Magick for Beginners
From our partners at Lux Eterna Records: It’s finally here: the new full-length from The Contrarian, Advanced Magick...



Higher Ed in the Age of TED: MOOCs Go Mainstream
If you work in education (or pay attention to this stuff), you've probably heard of MOOCs — so-called Massive Open...
Vocational Respect in the Arts and Sciences
The notion that creative expression has value is not something that should be controversial. Throughout history, creativity...



Moneygrubbing Artists and Other Cretinous Scum
A common line of thinking in capitalist society goes something like this: without proper incentives, people will cease to produce useful items. Putting aside counter-notions such as the altruistic impulse, this mostly bears true. Materialism reigns supreme in our modern world, and value reflects what can be produced, sold, acquired and consumed. Yet some things that can be produced are not necessarily...

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Ghost Mine Digs Out New Niche
Over the past four years, interest in paranormal television has vanished like, well, a ghost. It wasn't always this way. At one point, TV producers across the country were practically falling over themselves to create insipid shows from virtually the same mold. Now, it seems, the bubble has finally burst. It's easy to see why: schlocky execution and an aversion to risk turned what I once saw as entertaining...

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Getting Old is Weird
You get the feeling that something interesting is going on, but you're not sure of what it is. You take refuge in nostalgia. You cease to comprehend certain new trends. You can wait for the next version; chances are it'll be better. Everything seems like a watered-down version of stuff you heard, saw, experienced at an earlier stage in your life. Obviously, this isn't true across the board....

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Today in Awesome Lawsuits: Chubby Checker Sues Over Penis Size...
Xbiz reports that old-school rhythm & blues ace Chubby Checker is suing Palm and corporate parent Hewlett-Packard over an app called the "The Chubby Checker," which apparently "enables women to estimate the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size." Here's perhaps the most obvious example of news reporting since "Mitt Romney not a Friend of Poors": "The Chubby Checker" was designed...

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