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thenewinquiry: Contemporary strivers lack the tools that people in the past used to differentiate themselves from their peers: They live in a post-virtue, post-religion, post-aristocracy age. They lack the skills or inspiration to create something of genuine worth. They have been conditioned to find all but the most conventional and compromised politics worthy of contempt.…
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thenewinquiry: Contemporary strivers lack the tools that people in the past used to differentiate themselves from their peers: They live in a post-virtue, post-religion, post-aristocracy age. They lack the skills or inspiration to create something of genuine worth. They have been conditioned to find all but the most conventional and compromised politics worthy of contempt.…
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mattermedia: ‘In other words, media can be approached as intensive capabilities that are constitutive of worlds. Also, animals live in and of media: their world is by definition formed of the constant interactional sensing, movement, and memory of their surroundings, much as the media environment in which we live is constituted of our ethological bodies…
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A passionate kiss acts like a drug, causing us to crave the other person thanks to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This is the same substance involved in taking illegal substances such as cocaine, which is why the novelty of a new romance can feel so addictive. Dopamine is involved in sensations of reward, making us…
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A passionate kiss acts like a drug, causing us to crave the other person thanks to a neurotransmitter called dopamine. This is the same substance involved in taking illegal substances such as cocaine, which is why the novelty of a new romance can feel so addictive. Dopamine is involved in sensations of reward, making us…
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@stoweboyd: XYDO pivots from yet-another-curation-tool to curator-in-a-box for business http://t.co/vuOELh4K sounds smart #curationecosystem February 14, 2012 at 02:19PM via http://bit.ly/yjPFuG (via stoweboyd)
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From the sport’s beginning in the late 1960s, Ultimate has struggled to be taken seriously. Ultimate can’t seem to shake the perception (fair or not) that it’s a game people ought to play in Birkenstocks rather than cleats. In reality, Ultimate is one of the fastest growing competitive sports in the United States.[1] As it…
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From the sport’s beginning in the late 1960s, Ultimate has struggled to be taken seriously. Ultimate can’t seem to shake the perception (fair or not) that it’s a game people ought to play in Birkenstocks rather than cleats. In reality, Ultimate is one of the fastest growing competitive sports in the United States.[1] As it…
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For all we know, this fantastic match—along with his very similar semifinal against Murray, which deserves its own lengthy column—might have been an outlier during a string of historic accomplishments. We can hope, though, that it’s not the case. Similar to Federer’s status several years ago, Djokovic’s increasingly clear establishment as the sport’s top dog…
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For all we know, this fantastic match—along with his very similar semifinal against Murray, which deserves its own lengthy column—might have been an outlier during a string of historic accomplishments. We can hope, though, that it’s not the case. Similar to Federer’s status several years ago, Djokovic’s increasingly clear establishment as the sport’s top dog…