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  • A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
  • We’re Not in This Together | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
  • [Essay] Poem for Harm, by Matthew Zapruder | Harper's Magazine
  • What’s ‘wild swimming’? The perfect antidote to cabin fever
  • ‘A Preventable Catastrophe’
  • Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation
  • The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
  • Guest Blog: From The Mainland to A Marathoner-- My T.I. Journey from Non-Swimmer to Open Water Long Distance - Total Immersion
  • The Hidden History Of Juneteenth
  • Where will you be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom

Recent books

Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Why We Swim
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui

Hitler
Hitler
by Joachim Fest

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer




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Wired gets tough on ad-blockers

2/8/2016 advertising, publishingRough Drafts

Sometimes we get just what we deserve.

This week the news hit that Wired is about to start offering an ad-free edition of its website for a reasonable subscription fee. For $3.99 you get access to a version of the website that shows no ads at all.… Read the rest

Wired gets tough on ad-blockers

Vintage Posters Highlight a Century of Innovation

2/3/2011 advertising, art, posters, technology, WiredPublished Work, Wired

It may be hard to believe as you read Wired on your iPad, but heating oil and metal plumbing pipes were hot tech topics just 100 years ago.

They were businesses, too, on which inventors pinned their hopes and corporations placed their bets in the form of factories, salesmen, and marketing budgets.… Read the rest

Vintage Posters Highlight a Century of Innovation
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