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Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.
Easily distracted? Try a "distractibility delay."
Maybe try counseling first before you try this, married folks.
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Cut funding to the NEA and PBS? It would be incredibly costly to cut cultural spending.
Why is it that in the face of a total lack of evidence for their effectiveness, so many people feel so much affection for quacks?
We've known for a very long time that our body language influences others. What we're only now beginning to understand is how our body language alters the way we ourselves perceive the world.
A decade ago, Chris Hedges titled his analysis of the addictive power of war War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. If war truly is a force that gives […]
Ironically, America as a nation seems to have forgotten exactly what Memorial Day is about. Barbeques, all-day sales, the “official” start of summer—all of these threaten to crowd out the […]
Calling it “an insistent history that refuses to wait any longer to be told,” Lynn Hershman Leeson declares “WAR,” her acronym for the women’s art revolution begun in the 1970s, […]
Imagine you’re a citizen who cares a whole lot about stopping climate change. When it became clear that a hugely important climate conference would take place in Copenhagen in December […]