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Brain Exercises Help
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[US] (< 1 hour)
"Exercising your brain can keep you sharp longer into old age, confirmed a new study. But here's the twist: When symptoms of dementia finally settle in, the decline happens faster in those whose brains have been busiest."...
Never Forget: Processed Food Is a Good Thing
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[US] (< 1 hour)
"For our ancestors, natural was something quite nasty. Natural often tasted bad. Fresh meat was rank and tough, fresh fruits inedibly sour, fresh vegetables bitter. Natural was unreliable. ... Eating fresh, natural food was regarded with suspicion ...
The Holy Grail of State Fair Food: Deep-Fried Beer!
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[US] (< 1 hour)
"Fried Beer is a beer-filled pretzel-like dough pocket that's shaped like ravioli. Take a bite and the beer pours out. ... Simply use the dough to soak up the rest of the brewski. 'Why drink your beer when you can eat it?' creator Mark Zable ...
Scandal - We've Gotta Have It, Part III: Guilty Secrets Seek Outlets
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[US] (17 hours)
" one of the interesting paradoxes of our times that can be referred to in all apparent earnestness as 'fiercely private' while also publicizing her private pain in a mass-circulation periodical." Do famous people have a special weakness for those ...
From RuPaul to Lady Gaga: Why Women Are Dressing Up Like Drag Queens
ArtsJournal : Ideas
[US] (17 hours)
"They get something from drag that they don't get from a normal makeover - it lets them perform womanliness, to try it on like a new outfit, but with the label still attached. ... A meek woman is allowed to taste strength by turning her femaleness ...
Why Do Online Disagreements Get So Nasty?
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[US] (17 hours)
" live in a society with a hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues. Late modernity's sense of itself is built upon achievements in justice."...
Maybe Humans Aren't So 'Special' After All
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[US] (1 day)
"Decay in the belief in self is driven not by technology, but by the culture of technologists, especially the recent designs of antihuman software like Facebook, which almost everyone is suddenly living their lives through. Such designs suggest that ...
God? Chance? A Third Possibility: What If the Universe Was Created by a Machine?
ArtsJournal : Ideas
[US] (1 day)
"But amid the raging arguments between believers and sceptics, one possibility has been almost ignored - the idea that the universe around us was created by people very much like ourselves, using devices not too dissimilar to those available to ...
Culture Wars - What Would Plato Do?
ArtsJournal : Ideas
[US] (2 days)
"Could Plato, who wrote in the 4th century B.C., possibly have anything to say about today's electronic media? As it turns out, yes, It is characteristic of philosophy that even its most abstruse and apparently irrelevant ideas, suitably interpreted, ...
How The Brain Translates What It Sees
ArtsJournal : Ideas
[US] (2 days)
"Although we may not give it much thought, our ability to perceive our world visually is no mean feat; the most sophisticated robots in the world cannot yet match it...Somehow, almost magically, we derive a meaningful interpretation of complex scenes ...
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