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  • What we lose when we photograph life instead of experiencing it

    What we lose when we photograph life instead of experiencing it1

    At a conference on June 14, Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn predicted that the social networking site would be “all video” within five years. “We’re seeing a year-on-year decline of text,” she said. “If I was having a bet, I’d say: video, video, video.” Meanwhile, a recent article in The New York Times chronicled the lives

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  • What We Lose When We Can’t Touch the World Around Us

    What We Lose When We Can’t Touch the World Around Us0

    During one of my daily walks with my toddler, when we passed his favorite playground, I noticed a new sign warning that the coronavirus survives on all kinds of surfaces and that we should no longer use the playground. Since then, I’ve taken great pains to prevent him from touching things. This hasn’t been easy.

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  • What We Get Wrong About Pursuing Equal Outcomes

    What We Get Wrong About Pursuing Equal Outcomes0

    What happens when you suggest that someone’s failure to get something they believe they deserve is due to widespread – even systemic – maliciousness? Social malfunction. African American economist Thomas Sowell, in Discrimination and Disparities, puts it this way: Those who seem to be promising an end to existing group disparities, as a result of

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  • What We Can Learn from Katy Perry’s Depression

    What We Can Learn from Katy Perry’s Depression0

    Superstar Katy Perry’s 2017 album Witness sold “only” 180,000 copies the first week it went on sale.  Expectations dashed, Perry fell into a depression. She explains her overwhelming disappointment, “I have bouts of situational depressions and my heart was broken last year because unknowingly, I put so much validity in the reaction of the public, and the

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  • What We Can Learn from David Cassidy’s Dying Words

    What We Can Learn from David Cassidy’s Dying Words0

    Recently, pop idol David Cassidy of Partridge Family fame passed away at the age of 67. According to his estranged daughter Katie, his dying words were “so much wasted time.” Months before he passed, Cassidy foreshadowed the meaning behind his dying words. Early in 2017, he announced his decision to stop touring saying, “I want

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  • What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture

    What We Can Learn From ‘Beowulf’ About Monsters, Gratitude, and Culture7

    In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, set around A.D. 500, King Hrothgar of the Danes builds an immense hall, Heorot, ornate yet sturdy, a bulwark against the fog and darkness and barbarism of the age. Under its beams, the King and his thanes and their families can gather, smoke great slabs of meat, and pour out

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