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  • Confessions of a Millennial Mom With a Smartphone Addiction

    Confessions of a Millennial Mom With a Smartphone Addiction0

    We might not even be aware we are holding it, waiting for a call, a text, an email. Or perhaps we’ve fallen even deeper into the trap: we’re poised to make our minute-by-minute check on Facebook or Instragram. Just to see if another person has liked the comment or picture we posted earlier. What exactly

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  • Confabulation: Why Telling Ourselves Stories Makes Us Feel Ok

    Confabulation: Why Telling Ourselves Stories Makes Us Feel Ok0

    In a now classic experiment, the psychologists Richard E Nisbett and Timothy Wilson at the University of Michigan laid out a range of items, such as pairs of stockings, and asked people to select one. Participants consistently preferred the items on their most right-hand side. But when they were asked to explain their choices, they

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  • Condemned to Die by British Judges, Baby Indi Gregory’s Life Support Has Been Removed

    Condemned to Die by British Judges, Baby Indi Gregory’s Life Support Has Been Removed1

    Indi Gregory, a critically ill 8-month-old baby girl from Derbyshire, England, was taken off life support over the weekend. Her family announced her overnight passing on Monday. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease, Indi had won the hearts of the British and global public. Her parents, the Vatican’s pediatric hospital, and even the Italian

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  • Concentration Camps Reveal the Nature of the Modern State

    Concentration Camps Reveal the Nature of the Modern State0

    In the history of concentration camps, there is one thing that everyone knows: they were invented by the British. The idea of isolating unwanted population groups in purpose-built camps was implemented in South Africa in the context of the Anglo-Boer War, with horrific consequences for the Boer population. Although it would be left to the

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  • Con Games and Propaganda in the ‘Information Age’

    Con Games and Propaganda in the ‘Information Age’5

    For the average individual, life today is lived in a gulf between statistical reality and the never-never land of conjecture. Just how wide is this gulf of discrepancies? Theodore Roosevelt Malloch answers that question in an article for American Greatness, citing a recent YouGov poll that asked Americans to estimate the numbers in various subgroups

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  • Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times

    Comrades in Arms: Friendship and Tough Times1

    Feeling depressed by the state of the nation? Sucked under by the daily torrent of negative news? Powerless in the grip of forces greater than yourself? Join the crowd. In October 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released data showing that 70 percent of adults don’t believe their government cares about their well-being and that

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