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Why Good People Turn Bad Online
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies. Gaia Vince gives you the tour.
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Free Thing of the Week: Unsplash for iOS
Getting back to speed with our free stuff, we bring you a new free app from the folks at Unsplash.
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GET OFF MY LAWN or: My Final Futuristic Manifesto and Public Pronouncement (because, like I have anything to lose—a career, the esteem of my peers, the consignment of my collected works to the dustbin of history)
David Fewster returns to literature for his latest poetic crank case blues concerning the fate of Ursula LeGuin’s poetry and the UA 150 or whatever.
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High CEO Pay: It’s What Friends Are For
CEOs make 200-500 times as much as their workers. Why? Hint: it ain’t because they’re so valuable. Dean Baker reports.
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April 1, 1978: Rosco Louie Gallery
Seattle in the late 1970s was a place and time of great countercultural promise when Rosco Louie brought the shock. Jeff Stevens histories your macramé stridently.
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Sunday Comics
Well, with buck shot eyes and a purple heart, I rolled down the national stroll with a big fat paycheck strapped to my hip sack, a shore leave wristwatch underneath my sleeve…reading Sunday Comics with Cuban meals.
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Boutique English: A Beacon of Individualism in an Ever-Growing Ocean
Joshua Swainston considers boutique English and its poetic possibilities.
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Free Thing of the Week: Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies, and Other Writings on Art
The Star’s Free Thing returns with a book about Claude Monet, written by his good friend Georges Clemenceau.
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From Informal Sales to Market Intelligence: The History of the Largest Afro-Descendant Fair in Latin America
Shirley Campbell Barr looks into the phenomenon that is Feira Preta, the largest expo for people of African descent in Latin America.
