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Nothing Lasts and it’s all too much! The meaning of “Future Shock”
Too much change, too fast, bamboozles and confuses us Orson Welles of Citizen Kane fame is smoking a cigar while walking through an airport. It’s 1972, and Mr. Welles is the host of a documentary on Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock. The book was a big hit in the 1970s but is little talked about…
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Can People Be Both Racist and Pro-Gender Equality?
New research on racism and sexism in the USA
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“You Become Haggis and You Die”
Food couriers experience physical harm and the stress of being governed by an algorithm that nobody cares to explain
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Fire Eclipse
How emergency services prepare for uncertainty
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Thinking for Two
Chess is a creative collaboration
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The Wrestler’s Paradox
Ringmasters bring the pain, feel the pain, and drive home again
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The Job Creators
Black women entrepreneurs start-up and move forward
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Two Million Speeches
When politicians try to tug your heart-strings
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The Dignity of the Unhoused
Where the homeless find respect
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Hello, My Name is Walter
How do we move on from prison and into a middle-class job?
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Wives of the Unemployed
Losing a job is a family affair
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If I Had a Hammer
How do children learn to solve problems without violence?
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Luck Be a Parachute
Why people risk death as a hobby
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A Study in Pain and Ink
The tattoos of cancer survivors
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Factory Factotum
In praise of the skills of the “unskilled” factory worker
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A Life Worth Grieving
When losing a pet is losing a friend
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The Rescuers
Why people hoard animals, and what we can do about it
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Mafia Equality
When women become leaders of organized crime
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The Flat Earthers
The greased slide from YouTube to conspiracy
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A Rich Malty Stout with a Hint of Sexism
Where pricey craft beer meets cheap gender stereotypes
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The Fight that Never Comes
The life lessons of Aikido
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Who Masks When?
Unmasking the rituals of viral epidemics
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Punk Veganism
Why punks are the best vegans
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In the Last Place You Look
Food insecurity in wealthy countries
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The Quilters
Quilting is rebellion
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