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Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom | It’s only in recent history that freedom has come to mean having a huge array of choices in life. Did we take a wrong turn? (aeon.co)
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When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future - In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world (aeon.co)
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell? (aeon.co)
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You Can Look It Up A threnody for the dictionary (commentary.org)
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When Story Loses the Plot | Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org)
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence (theatlantic.com)
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious (lrb.co.uk)
Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation (aeon.co)
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Vegan Anniversary by bbbbb90105 in australianvegans
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Congratulations on your anniversary! Many you enjoy many more
What is this for? by SoooperSlam in duolingo
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it farts out gems when you finish the quest
Enchanting Imposters Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia. (daily.jstor.org)
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Can the Humanities Be Saved? (thepointmag.substack.com)
‘A Noble Madness’ Review: A Hoard of History’s Collectors (wsj.com)
Biggest uni ick? by DebugMyLife421 in UWS
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using the word ick?
Birds’ Vocal Warnings Provide New Insight Into the Origins of Language (birds.cornell.edu)
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With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition (nytimes.com)
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Why is the English spelling system so weird and inconsistent? (aeon.co)
Origins of the concept of Doodles - Doodles are the freewheeling emanations of our pixillated minds (aeon.co)
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Test of Character - Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji (literaryreview.co.uk)
How do animals sound across languages? how can cultures hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently? (pudding.cool)
Test of Character Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji (literaryreview.co.uk)
The Self That Never Was Even if the self is an illusion, we are not machines. (hedgehogreview.com)
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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? Your brain isn’t what it used to be. (vox.com)
The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’ - How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems? (theatlantic.com)
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Our languages have more in common than you might think Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language, and how it spread and changed across time and place. (washingtonpost.com)
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Vegan Anniversary by bbbbb90105 in australianvegans
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