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The Shallows
Oct 19, 2021 · Nicholas Carr
Whether you think the internet is ushering in an intellectual apocalypse or simply making daily tasks easier and information more accessible, no one c...
Psychology Science and Technology Society and Culture -
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Oct 18, 2021 · John Gottman, Nan Silver
Marriage isn’t always easy, but couples can still find healing and fulfillment by incorporating these suggestions from renowned psychologist and...
Relationships and Parenting Psychology Self-Help -
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Oct 13, 2021 · Thomas Sowell
Since the 1990s, the charter school movement has taken off across the United States. These charters are essentially public schools with fewer bureaucr...
Current Affairs Education Politics -
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Oct 11, 2021 · Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier has been building technology in the Silicon Valley since the 1980s and is often referred to as a founding father of virtual reality. He a...
Psychology Science and Technology Society and Culture -
The True Believer
Oct 6, 2021 · Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) was a longshoreman for decades, loading and unloading cargo from ships. He was also a farmer, a railway man, and a lay scholar...
Politics Psychology Society and Culture -
The Federalist Papers
Oct 1, 2021 · Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
The Declaration of Independence and a victorious revolution didn’t seamlessly resolve the new nation’s issues. The country had no army, no...
History Politics -
Urgings of the Heart
Sep 29, 2021 · Wilkie Au, Noreen Cannon
We all know that painful feeling of being at war with ourselves, and we are constantly on the lookout for ways to make ourselves whole. But some of ou...
Psychology Religion and Theology -
Never Split the Difference
Sep 27, 2021 · Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
The godfather of FBI hostage negotiation, Thomas Strenz, described his work as full of “the bad, the mad, and the sad.” But according to f...
Business Psychology Self-Help -
12 Rules for Life
Sep 24, 2021 · Jordan B. Peterson
Rules? Do we really need more? Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson says that if we hope to bring order from chaos in our lives then we definitely ne...
Psychology Self-Help Society and Culture -
A Brief History of Motion
Sep 22, 2021 · Tom Standage
The wonder of how we get from one place to another isn’t always a topic of profound thought, let alone an object of historical inquiry. In a cen...
History Science and Technology Society and Culture
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