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Why Major in Humanities?
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Cover Letters From the Other Side
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The Winehouse Effect: How We Kill Celebrities
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Media, The Reality Funnel
Reading Time: ~5 minutes Did anyone else feel a kind of dull depression when the stocks first dove recently? Or an exhiliration when they seemed to rise again? Are you a stockbroker? Probably not....
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Getting a Concussion from the Flu Shot
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10 Ways to Not Get Screwed as a Humanities Major
Ah, spring. Out on the quad, Frisbees are flying again. Awkward small talk about classes can happen outside, instead of in the dining hall. And, all across campus, tens of thousands of panicked seniors...
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Getting Arrested for a Tweet: The Age of the Post-Anonymous Internet
Can saying terrible things on the internet land you in jail? Thanks to social media, it looks like the answer is creeping closer to “yes.” In March, a 21-year-old who drunkenly tweeted racist remarks...
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Music, Writing, and Art in the Age of the Optional Purchase
In the summer of 2010, when I started my first job, I listened to about six hours of Pandora a day. The ads were an annoyance, but I sat through them because I loved the songs that Pandora found for...
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How eBooks Can Save Journalism
At the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Michelle Bachmann said a lot of things that weren’t true. She said she got the information from a self-published book, Presidential Perks Gone...
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“Farewell to the arts,- to eloquence” – Mary Shelly, “The Last Man” (1826) Weird things happen to language during a crisis. We have no way to describe what’s happening, so we invent new phrases....
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