You’re An @sshole: Being “Right” in the Digital Age
With the Digital Age came computers. With computers came the internet. With internet came your post, their post, funny post, mean post, political post…
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Will Humans Go Extinct?
Asteroids, climate change, nuclear holocaust, disease, politics… These are certainly the End Times. But how likely is it that humans will go the way of the dinosaur?
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Those Jobs Are Gone, and They’re Not Coming Back
Old economy jobs are disappearing. Politicians, as hard as they might try, can’t bring back jobs that don’t exist anymore.
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Ageism, Part One: What’s the Point of Living if No One Wants to F*ck You?
Ageism is a problem, but is not addressed in the same manner as other forms of discrimination. Let’s talk about growing old in America.
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Ageism, Part Two: The Definition of Aging
What exactly is “old?” People share what growing old means to them in the latest segment of the Berlin Geist Literatur series on aging.
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Real Websites, Fake News
Fake news has existed from the earliest days of journalism, long before Bat Boy became Hillary Clinton’s alien baby. In 1835, Richard A. Locke published a series of six fake articles about the discovery of life on the moon, now known as the Great Moon Hoax, in The Sun newspaper. Sales of The Sun went through the roof.
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A Festering Past
Germany has addressed its past in ways most countries, especially the United States, have not: A sort of national psychoanalysis to keep something like the Third Reich from ever happening again.
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Ageism, Part Four: Eldercare
This companion piece to “Ageism in America” takes a look at the innovators who will change the way we age, and the limitations of aging.
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Now India (7 Minutes to Sunrise)
The first sounds of the morning are of tuk-tuk and taxi engines as they come to life, their honking horns alongside the footsteps of the city’s informal working class taking to the streets. And, even earlier than that, the song and chant of Hindu morning prayer, and the feral dogs that slink to the shadows to sleep, no longer dominant as the sun begins its climb from behind Agra, India’s low hills.
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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Rail Travel
The role of the train in human history is one of past, present, and future. Rail travel is improving around the world. Why is the United States falling so far behind?