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From the Sandbox to Syria — Tribe, Ego and Decision Making: HyperKulture
ColumnQuick: The Beatles or the Stones? Ginger or Mary Ann? Bomb Syria or don’t bomb Syria? It’s silly to equate the gravity of these choices, but it’s clear that our culture delights in and demands...
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Dear Oprah, Please Tell Us Who We Are — Atheists, Feminists and Other...
ColumnOprah seems to think she knows best when it comes to social and religious identities. Here’s why that should piss you off. During an awkward television interview last month, the extraordinarily...
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Read this F*&%ing Story! — Spinal Tap Headlines and You: HyperKulture
ColumnDear headline writers. This is not Spinal Tap. Made you click! Quite a task, it seems, in today’s hyper-competitive online media marketplace. After all, this story is just one of dozens, maybe...
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Yes Means Yes Means What? – Miley, Rihanna and Me: HyperKulture
ColumnRecent Twittersphere flare-ups featuring Rashida Jones and Sinéad O’Conner “slut-shaming” pop-culture irritant Miley Cyrus and others for their fleshy outbursts drew swift backlash from some...
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You May Ask Yourself ‘How Did I Get Here?’– The Pitfalls of Passion Drift:...
ColumnSmall compromises on big decisions can add up over the course of a lifetime. The result is passion drift—and waking up one day wondering how you wound up in the weeds. How does our culture...
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Making Space for Your Inner Homebody – A Case for the Great Indoors:...
Pressuring ourselves to “get out more” is an old hat we use to deal with our problems. Fresh air. Exercise. New experiences. It makes sense. But sometimes answers can be found by spending more time in...
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Living in the Past – You Can’t Go Back…Why Would You Want To? HyperKulture
ColumnFrom culture and politics to sex and relationships, too many of us spend too much time living in the past. Looking back with a wink and a nod is one thing, but nursing nostalgia is quite...
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Multiple Personality Order – Embracing Your Inner Yous: HyperKulture
ColumnThere’s an entire community inside you. Why fight it? Here’s a case for the more the merrier and why you shouldn’t let internal demons dis your Multiple Personality Order. Some years ago, one of...
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Beyond the Algorithms – Don’t Look Now, But You Are What You Click: HyperKulture
ColumnDisgusted by overwhelming portions of salacious fare served up on the Internet? In today’s “click, monitor, push” information-marketing world, what we “see” is about more than algorithms—it’s...
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Do People Blow Your Mind? You Just Might Be a Humanist: HyperKulture
ColumnSome people experience overwhelming awe in church, some on magnificent mountaintops, some in elegant equations. But some of us tend to get “it” when witnessing stunning examples of our human...
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