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DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK — Firestone and the Warlord: Another hit by PBS Frontline, the film takes a look at the strange tale of the American household-name tire company mired in a civil war in Liberia and the debate still waging about its level of complicity in mass murder. Firestone had been operating a mn-acre […]
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The boy who cried Literally
The boy who cried Literally — or how we literally overuse and misuse “literally”: Just like “like,” the other (figurative) stab in the back of the English language that had been ticking us off these days (years) is the excessive misuse of the word literally. We’re looking at you. You know who you are. In […]
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The story behind Picasso’s The Three Dancers
The story behind one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous artworks, The Three Dancers, is fascinating. The piece, part of the Tate collection, at first glance appears to be “a joyful celebration of joie de vivre.” However, Tateshots says the “picture is more complicated than it first appears. What seems to be an exuberant celebration of […]
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Reading a timely, long-lost F. Scott Fitzgerald short story
The New Yorker published a long-lost satirical short story called The I.O.U. by F. Scott Fitzgerald that mocks what could be now labelled “fake news” from the 1920s. The I.O.U. is a story about a narrator, the story’s protagonist, who is about to publish a nonfiction book about a man communicating with his dead nephew […]
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How to raise a feminist daughter, according to a feminist
How to raise a feminist daughter, according to a feminist: Best-selling author Chimamanda Adichie has an actual manifesto guiding parents on how to raise their daughters to be feminists and steer clear of reinforcing the harmful idea that women are inferior to men. Before any of our readers begin to fret that raising your daughters […]
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Science Vs is back for a new season
One of our favourite podcasts is back for a new season: Wendy Zukerman’s Science Vs podcast started its new season on 9 March. Science Vs, for the uninitiated, is a Gimlet-produced show that uses scientific evidence to take on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere […]
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How public key cryptography shaped the modern economy
Without public key cryptography, we would not have the internet as we know it, economist Tim Harford says on his BBC-produced 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy podcast. We use cryptography every time we send a work email, buy something online, or use a banking app. Harford tells the story of public key cryptography […]
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Why businesses need to focus more on productivity and less on efficiency
The words “productivity” and “efficiency” are often used interchangeably in business strategy. But new studies have found that businesses and business leaders must adopt a “productivity” rather than “efficiency” mindset if they want to remain in the game, Michael Mankins argues in a piece for HBR. “Continuing to wring out greater profits through efficiency has […]
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No, our personalities aren’t set in stone by the time we’re 8
No, our personalities aren’t set in stone by the time we’re eight: For decades, developmental psychologists have been embroiled in debate over the extent to which any given individual’s personality is malleable, and the age at which basic personality traits become evident. Some research suggests that key traits, including self-esteem, are determined during our first […]
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What happens when there is an emergency mid-air
Ever thought of what happens when there is a medical emergency on a plane? That’s the subject of travel writer Natalie Paris’ piece for The Telegraph. Cabin crew are trained on a number of basic medical emergencies, but they sometimes they need to call out for a doctor among the passengers — imagine the panic […]