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    Varieties of Islam

    JUNE 14, 2013 9:52PM

    By Charles Knause


    Topics: history, culture, religion, news

    • 12 Ratings
    • 402 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    France's first gay marriage

    MAY 30, 2013 1:59AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: france, history, civil rights, lgbt, society, culture, the times they are a-changin', yay!!!!

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    In Which I Display My Own Non-Expertise

    MAY 29, 2013 10:32AM

    By Anthropologist Underground


    Topics: atheism, critical thinking, science, podcast, culture

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    Conservatism and Lifestyle

    MAY 23, 2013 9:14AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: culture, society, freedom, christian right, california, conservatism, lifestyle

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    Intelligence, Sincerity and Artificial Blindness

    MAY 12, 2013 5:28AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: america, sincerity, intelligence, political correctness, truthfulness, social dynamics, culture, analysis, character, statistics, informed decisions

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    Obama and Right-Wingers

    MAY 10, 2013 8:58AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: obama, america, democrats, right-wingers, patriotism, deficit, culture

    • 4 Ratings
    • 240 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    "THE FAT LADY Didn't Sing...She Laughed"! Schadenfreude?

    MAY 6, 2013 1:31PM

    By Marilyn Sands


    Topics: my 1st & last opera, culture, lactose intolerant, a night at the opera, berlin germany, video, berlin opera house, woody allen, that's vogner, richard wagner, travel, food/drink, music, comedy, bravo to the seattle opera company

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    Staying Connected with Two Cultures

    MAY 6, 2013 11:42AM

    By Patrick Frank


    Topics: culture, creativity

    • 9 Ratings
    • 346 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Do You Curse Brightly?

    MAY 1, 2013 1:40PM

    By Susie Lindau


    Topics: graphic, photography, photo, expressions, expletives, literature, culture, humor, writing, books, authors

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    Orals: Rupert García on cultural commodification

    APRIL 18, 2013 1:46PM

    By Kaygee


    Topics: culture, chicano, commodification, commodities, art, protest, politics, 1960s

    • 4 Ratings
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    Growing Green Memes

    APRIL 18, 2013 2:07AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: energy + environment, king coal, carbon-centric, carboncentric, ou tuber, big oil, big gas, big wind, big sun, big solar, big steam, big renewables, big carbon, seventh generation in mind, nature bats last, 350 ppm, north pool, green party, green movement, environmental movement, ecology movement, ecomemes, co2 number, race to renewable, sustainability, sustainism, the carbon right, creatives + florida, buskers, meme garden, green meme garden, energy, alternative energy, alternative fuels, hydrocarbons + global warming, global warming + global warning, nature shrugs, green memes, memestream, memestream democrat, viralocity, rebranding + carbon, counterbranding + carbon, carbon number, rerd number, rerd, gore + inconvenient truth, global warming, climate change, coevolve + energy, coevolve + culture, climate turbulence, open call, research matters, rachel carson + silent spring, buckminster fuller + spaceship earth, global roasting, global steaming, global frying, we’re fried + letterman, green classics, environmental classics, kenneth boulding + cowboy economy, kenneth boulding + spaceman economy, progressive engineer, spacecraft economy, snowclones, angelic investors, heroic investor, ted talk, dinosaur in the living room, nucular, dumb growth, save the planet, carbon culture, meme canon, environmental hall of fame, citizen of earth, freeway enterprise, renewable energy + research and development, renewable energy + r&d, daniel rigney, danagram, humor, politics, culture, mayor + i may be a republican, i’m not an idiot, sarah palin + drill baby, sarah palin + grill baby grill, james hansen + 350, mckibben + 350, clean coal, beyond petroleum, pogo + we have met the enemy, teal democrat, blue-green democrat, clean carbon, elevated carbon, carbon car, bridge to renewable, race to renewable, koch brothers + carbon brothers, thermal pollution, hero + gasman, elon musk + visionary, carbonspeak, satire, dark humor, liberal arts + careers, tipping point + climate

    • 3 Ratings
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    But What's In The Space Between Their Ears?...

    APRIL 1, 2013 7:22PM

    By Samasiam


    Topics: culture, family, teens, fashion, health, thigh gap

    • 5 Ratings
    • 332 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    In Morocco

    MARCH 21, 2013 3:28PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: travel, photography, morocco, edith wharton, culture

    • 3 Ratings
    • 465 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Fixing Our Broken Cliché System

    MARCH 21, 2013 2:53PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: politics, media, culture, dysfunctionalism, public discourse, industrial + metaphor, engineering + metaphor, mechanistic metaphor, machine metaphor, broken + borders, broken + political system, broken marriage, broken + financial system, daniel rigney, danagram, metaphorical society, rube goldberg machine, dustbin of history, conventional wisdom, clichés, catchies, catch phrases, clichés, cliché systems, broken record, golden age analysis, industrial metaphor, broken + system, social criticism, cultural criticism, humor, satire, fixing the system, the system works, platitudes of the future, pissing against the wind, pissing against the hurricane, swirled world, swirling world, accelerating world, imagined past, working life, society as conversation

    • 3 Ratings
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    Caring for Our Brothers and Sisters

    MARCH 21, 2013 7:07AM

    By Patrick Frank


    Topics: values, culture, politics

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    "Liberal Elites" and Republican Class Wars

    MARCH 16, 2013 1:05AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: facts, art, science, patriotism, country, power, culture, society, elites, class wars, liberals, politics, america

    • 3 Ratings
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    • 4 Comments
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    The Deleterious Impact of Age Segregation or Separation

    MARCH 6, 2013 8:17AM

    By Patrick Frank


    Topics: mental health, society, culture, aging

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    America Needs More A**holes Like Me

    MARCH 3, 2013 5:04PM

    By Richard Erlich


    Topics: belief/religion, feminism, politics, ethics, stoics, mashal, cynics, morality, culture, compassion, empathy, sentimentality, linguistic taboos, fear, gun control

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    Perrier, Pubes, Condoms, Morēs, & Morality

    FEBRUARY 10, 2013 9:46PM

    By Richard Erlich


    Topics: tb, gonorrhea, aids, syphilis, std, vd, civilizing, manners, advertising, marketing, behavior modification, public health, culture, fashion, fads, contraception, abortion, condoms, politics, comedy, belief/religion

    • 0 Ratings
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    Awesomely Untranslatable Words

    JANUARY 27, 2013 7:58PM

    By Barbara Jessing


    Topics: bossa nova, marriage, language, culture

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