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In an era increasingly described as “post truth,” classifying a lie is no simple task. Recognizing deceptive behavior, however, is another story. Pamela Meyer, a certified fraud examiner and self-identified “lie spotter,” says humans lie a lot. (In fact, a person is typically lied to between 10 and 200 times per day, she says.) But
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A few months ago, I was having a few beers with TAC managing editor Matt Purple, and we ended up pondering the great question of our times: why did people vote for Trump? After tossing around the usual answers (a reaction against Hillary’s hawkishness, his carefully curated aura of success, post-industrial blue collar angst), Matt told me
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In 1828, utopian socialist Robert Owen is supposed to have remarked to his business associate William Allen, “All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.” For obvious reasons, today we substitute mad or crazy for queer in that quotation, but the meaning remains the same. And despite
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In January the hashtag #tradwife burst onto our collective consciousness. British housewife Alena Kate Pettit gave an interview to the BBC to talk about her traditional lifestyle. She calls herself a “tradwife” and does not work outside the home, preferring to cook and clean for her husband. Her interview strongly divided opinions and many commentators noted the
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Recently, YouTube comic Stephen Crowder told his viewership that his organization was being throttled. He’s not alone. Crowder’s fellow conservative, Dennis Prager, recently testified to Congress about Google’s restrictions or demonetizations of over 50 Prager U videos. The issue of biased public forums was also explored at the hearing. One of the
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They say the road to success is made by walking. For kids, that is literally true. Turns out that the more kids walk around, the more upward mobility they enjoy as adults, concluded a study in American Psychologist. The researchers, led by Shigehiro Oishi, wondered why there are such “large regional differences in upward social
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