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Archives for October 2014


It turns out that millennials are people, too, and generational politics is dumb.


Grit has been called the secret to success — but schools don’t yet know how to instill it in kids.


“I don’t put up with bullshit or nasty people. I don’t have time for it,” Shonda Rhimes told The Hollywood Reporter.


Plaintiffs filed 40 percent fewer lawsuits in September than they did a year before. And a landmark Supreme Court ruling on software patents might be the reason.


Put on your headphones and turn your monitor away from your boss: The foulmouthed comedian has a new video about pay equity


Because you were wondering why anyone, ever, would do such a thing


All of humanity’s oldest art had been found in Europe — until now


Women aren’t entering the 1 percent in droves, but at least they’ve stopped falling out


This is the internet, so when you get to interview Slavoj Zizek, of course you ask him about cats. And because it’s Zizek, of course he situates them in the class struggle.


The song means the opposite.


Liberals emphasize teaching children empathy and tolerance. Conservatives focus more on obedience and faith.




People are moving in, but we’re not building new houses for them to live in.


Moore’s law has a cousin, called Haitz’s law, that predicts that LED lighting will get dramatically more powerful — and cheaper — each decade.