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Beyond the Link Tax: Journalism and the Changing Nature of the Internet
Philip Moscovitchhalifaxexaminer.ca(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
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Colonialism has fundamentally altered our relationships with the web of life, and we are all living with its consequences. When Europe began its pillage of the Western Hemisphere in 1492, Indigenous cosmologies of reciprocity, relationships with and duties of care for water, land, and living beings were uprooted, replaced with a worldview animated
... See moreRaj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
John Carlin, “If the World’s Greatest Chef Cooked for a Living, He’d Starve,” Guardian, December 11, 2006, http://observer.theguardian.com/foodmonthly/futureoffood/story/0,,1969713,00.html