Category: Culture
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Transforming finance can help to tackle the biggest problems of society
The current financial system is part of the problem, not part of the solution. So what’s to be done? Chris Hewlett writes.
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May 4, 1969: Hit the Highway, Freeway
On this date in 1969, one of Seattle’s most successful citizen activist campaigns gathered crucial force in the Washington Park Arboretum. Jeff Stevens remembers avidly.
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What’s the Point of Education?
Paul Tritschler wonders why bother with education when there is no interest in freedom.
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The False Choice Between Criticism and Collaboration in Open Data
The Sunlight Foundation’s John Wonderlich surfaces from underground long enough to pen some thoughts on convincing people open culture matters and how to go about it.
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A grown-up approach to treating anorexia
Adults with anorexia often have distinctive traits that lock them into a destructive relationship with food. Carrie Arnold discovers how those same traits could help them escape it.
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April 21, 1974: and/or
Once upon an artistic time, Seattle’s and/or gallery catalyzed our city’s creative community. Jeff Stevens histories you freshly with his erstwhile song.
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Making Sense of a Miscarriage
Holly Cave wants to know why her pregnancy ended at nine weeks. There are no easy answers, but talking about miscarriage could help us change the way we think about it.
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How We Can Turn Around the Heroin Crisis
What is to be done about the heroin crisis? Adrienne Erin considers some ways to stem the rising tide.
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Active OER: Beyond Open Licensing Policies
Creative Commons Poland’s co-founder, Alek Tarkowski, discusses the need for open education–and how to go even further than distinctions between price-free and lock-free.
