Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. | | | | | Madeleine Lebeau as 'Yvonne' in "Casablanca" (1942) | | | | | | “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
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| | rantnrave:// For me it's rarely about the thing, more about the reaction... Dejected and disconnected. That's how I feel. Felt like crying like the French who lined the streets when PARIS fell. Feel far away from understanding so many fellow Americans. Having trouble finding an open dialogue. Just venom... FashionREDEF Original: Marketer SETH MATLINS on the damage done by advertising that enforces unrealistic beauty ideals and how the TRUTH IN ADVERTISING ACT hopes to generate positive change... Orange is the new white... Won't miss ROGER AILES one bit... You already knew that, before he decided to run for president, he dabbled in real estate and reality TV. But did you know he also dabbled in golf, wrestling, and American football? REDEF SportsSET - Wide World of Donald Trump and Sports... The TV industry may be ecstatic about the 2016 upfronts, but it would be a mistake to view the TV ad market as resilient – let alone a growth business. Like every medium before it, the television will give way to newer, more capable delivery models. And the winners are unlikely to be the same. MediaREDEF ORIGINAL - Brightest Before the Dark: The Impending Fall of TV Ad Spend... Happy Birthday to MARK JUNG. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| In “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz helped create the myth that Trump is a charming business genius. Now he calls him unfit to lead. | | |
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| Kumamon, a cartoon bear created to promote tourism in an overlooked part of Japan, has become a billion-dollar phenomenon. Now, a new academic field is trying to pinpoint what makes things cute -- and why we can’t resist them. | | |
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| Marketer Seth Matlins on the damage done by advertising that enforces unrealistic beauty ideals and how the Truth in Advertising Act hopes to generate positive change. | | |
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| It took me years to realize that despite being born with a rare facial disfigurement, beauty is more than a cold calculation. | | |
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| Why the focus of policy needs to shift away from prediction and control. | | |
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| Kimchi and pop songs in Pyongyang. | | |
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| In January I attended a meeting at the offices of the NewsGuild in Times Square. The Guild, as it's called, though there are many guilds, is on the ninth floor of a skyscraper with a modern, ultra-white lobby. | | |
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| The offhand remark spurred a massive success in Syria. Why does the foreign policy establishment consider it a failure? | | |
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| A lot is still uncertain about the failed coup in Turkey on July 15, but one thing seems clear: The coup leaders believed they were acting in a long Turkish military tradition of protecting Turkey's democracy from its elected leaders. | | |
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| Lucha Underground is a television show about wrestling that airs Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. Eastern on the El Rey Network. It is not a wrestling promotion: it is a television show about a wrestling promotion. Sometimes, people fly off stuff. | | |
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| In the one-woman newsroom of Chalkbeat Detroit, Erin Einhorn spends her time making calls, reaching out to principals, attending parent meet-ups, and arranging classroom visits, documenting the efforts to respond to the decades-long deterioration of the city's school system. | | |
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| The secret code to unleashing the world's most amazing flavors. | | |
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| Seasteading is the biggest DIY project in the world--but everyone wants something different. | | |
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| SVB CEO Greg Becker on where and how the next big tech innovations will emerge. | | |
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| Netflix releases the third season of "BoJack Horseman" on Friday, July 22--a big relief to the poor souls who actually identify with the show's deeply unhappy protagonist. | | |
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| After I was touched inappropriately as a kid, and then not touched at all for years, the right pair of well-trained hands helped me finally feel comfortable in my own skin. | | |
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| Google's DeepMind has moved on from playing Go to more serious matters -- attempting to solve some of the world's biggest health problems. | | |
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| About a decade ago, I found myself in an alley outside a bar in northern British Columbia, Canada. I had a flap that held two grams of awful cocaine cut with all sorts of speed, and I was lining it out on top of a dirty dumpster covered in spray paint. | | |
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| “Food says a lot about this next generation and how they identify themselves,” says Vikki Neil of Scripps Networks Interactive, which owns Food Network. | | |
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| Hobbled by self-inflicted wounds and a price war, the Indian e-commerce company is girding for battle with a deep-pocketed rival. | | |
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| AI-equipped sex toys could either make human contact unnecessary, or help the socially awkward learn intimacy. | | |
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