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Forget about culture-busting significance on the newsstand. The covers of today’s magazines just aren’t memorable.
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Inspiration isn’t a bolt of lightening—it comes out of your own sensibilities and understanding of the world.
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The ’60s “was the most heroic age in media communications since the twelve apostles,” but the AMC show doesn’t really get it.
“My work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit,” says DJ Spooky. “We’re bombarded with sound at every level.” In his Big […]
The members of the Senate Permnanent Subommittee on Investigations were angry. Their anger was predictably performative, and often nasty. McCaskill’s analogy of Goldman Sachs to a bookie managing bets on […]
Robert Whitaker’s "Anatomy of an Epidemic" investigates the long-term outcomes of patients treated with psychiatric drugs. Could meds be doing more harm than good?
Benjamin Kunkel thinks that, absent a political movement for full employment, the U.S. will continue to have fewer jobs—and those with jobs will be increasingly exploited.
Despite the claims of advertisers, most orange juice is neither fresh nor natural. Alissa Hamilton writes that the history of processed orange juice is a study in deceptive marketing.
Former President Jimmy Carter writes that Sudan's recent elections, despite the condemnation of many critics, "will permit this war-torn nation to move toward a permanent peace."
"For decades, TV has depicted teens as angst-ridden and rebellious, and parents as out-of-touch and unhip." But a new generation of shows feature less-defiant teens, and cool parents.
Jim Titus, the EPA's resident expert on sea-level rise, calculates that a three-foot rise in sea level will push back East Coast shorelines an average of 300 to 600 feet in the next 90 years.
New research indicates that New World ants, who fastidiously cultivate crops in their underground lairs for food, have updated the crops they grow over time.
"Modern eco-foodies are full of good intentions," writes Robert Paarlberg. But "the hope that we can help others by changing our shopping and eating habits is being wildly oversold to Western consumers."
Norman Steel and Benjamin Miller think New York’s garbage should be processed in waste-to-energy plants which produce energy, and are less polluting than landfills.
With yet another journalist attacked and killed in Honduras this past week, the country has become one of the most dangerous for reporters in 2010. As previously mentioned on this […]
With exactly 40 Earth Days in its wake, the US has come a long way on conservation awareness. But when we think about Earth and all that ails her, we’re […]
This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey. Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte, licensed […]
“For centuries in the past we’ve been in the center of the world.In fact, you know, ‘China’ in Chinese means ‘the middle kingdom,’ that we are in the middle of […]
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The way copyright law is written doesn’t reflect the “rip, mix, burn kind of scenario” that is the modern age.