The Cultures

Nov 24, 2013

• Is Princess Culture all that bad? Andrea reflects on her visit to Disneyland
• Why it's important to count the women when it comes to attaining sex balance in stories
• The Whore of the Orient game naming controversy (and the wiki entry for Orient)
• Racism as a thing people deny they are, even while being it (about the...

Nov 17, 2013

• It turns out that War of the Worlds didn't actually cause a massive panic (also read Adrian's 2005 blog post about War of the Worlds, Ghostwatch, and ARGs)
• Mental bandwidth (on Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much)
• Always go to the funeral (Deidre Sullivan's NPR article) and a relevant tweet

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Nov 10, 2013

• Does life end after 35? Why do we pay so much attention to extraordinary youthful achievements and ignore those by older people? (see the article that inspired this)
• Why the Stanford Prison Experiment may not mean what we think
• On qualia, happiness, and the two cultures (see definition of qualia, and what 'the...

Nov 3, 2013

• How to learn languages properly (see the related book Naomi's been reading)
• Reading and writing interactive fiction (including Twine and Device 6), and its prospects for popular and commercial success
• Money and art; the necessity and difficulty of getting paid (related: Slaves of the Internet, Unite!)

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