The Cultures

Jan 26, 2014

• Why you shouldn't write down your ideas too early
• Technology (and mobile phones) isn't making us antisocial after all
• 'Marked' and 'unmarked' forms of dress for women, but not for men (an example with Pac Man!)

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Jan 19, 2014

• Margaret Maitland provides feedback on 'innit' (the school where working class language was banned, Canadian First Nation children banned for using their own languages, the ancient Egyptian official Montuweser using 'paw')
• Naomi's thoughts on 12 Years a Slave and why it took a British team to make the most important...

Jan 12, 2014

• Andrea's toaster oven debacle (and why you should check your smoke alarms)
• The internet makes it harder for us to get to sleep at a reasonable time
• Toby Young and Michael Rosen on the use of the word 'innit'
• Thoughts on Alexis Madrigal's 8 tech hypotheses for 2014 (plus The Atlantic's article about Frank Luntz and

Jan 5, 2014

• On Spoilers; why (some people) don't like them, and why there seem to be more of them lately
• Rules we believe, and random clusters, and Martha Beck on life stories and Malcolm Gladwell on adversity
• The Israeli ultraorthodox as happy threshold earners

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