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The Island Where People Forget to Die

Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis
PUBLISHED: Oct. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

The Truth About Ben and Jerry’s

Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required. (Photo by Holly Lindem) Though it occurred a dozen years ago, the sale of Ben &…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4214 words)

Someone to hold me

A photo of the author with her son In 1998, while a student at Harvard Divinity School, I worked as a chaplain at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Speaker’s Bureau, also known as…
AUTHOR:Emily Rapp
PUBLISHED: July 12, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2421 words)

happiness is possible without simply consuming all the time

Most of us in the West are still attached to a high-consumption lifestyle. We like to buy new and exciting things. Is there a strong enough alternative lifestyle out there that can convince us to…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1846 words)

Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203

Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack–era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10090 words)

The demise of book publishing as we know it

For years the book publishing industry has been in turmoil over the future of books, but we could be at a turning point of no return. As the saying goes, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. With…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2315 words)

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5345 words)

Fungible

We don’t realize how much news media has changed in the past fifteen years. We really don’t. I’m not talking about digital first or about blogging or about data journalism or the…
SOURCE:stdout.be
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2524 words)
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“Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Delusional:” On Beauty, Jealousy, and Trolls

The Daily Mail published an article this week by Samantha Brick, called, “There are Downsides to Looking This Pretty: Why Women Hate Me for Being Beautiful.” Problem is, according…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1434 words)
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