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James Burns
onto Human Condition |
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“If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private loss, to be grieved privately by the family,” Norton says. “Before, this stuff was treated as a public loss – much like the death of soldiers.” Mayors dedicated monuments to the victims of traffic crimes, accompanied by marching bands and children dressed in white, carrying flowers.
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The artificial holds and lines devised for gyms and climbing competitions don't just happen—they're created and placed by devious people who want to force you to stretch, contort, curse, fail, and fall. The author goes behind the scenes with the masterminds who make this booming sport a serious challenge.
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Few places on earth are as free from legal oversight as the high seas. One ship has been among the most persistent offenders.
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The scathing report, commissioned by the American Psychological Association, says the C.I.A. used prominent outside psychologist to quell internal objections.
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In 2011, Hanli Prinsloo decided she wanted to break the woman’s world record in free diving. She would need to dive to 213 feet…
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A new wave of videogames offers lessons in powerlessness, scarcity and inevitable failure. What makes them so compelling?
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"In almost every domain there are advantages to seeming good. It makes people trust you. But actually being good is an expensive way to seem good. To an amoral person it might seem to be overkill."
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What happens if you decide that falling in love is not something that happens to you, but something that you do?
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The questions reminded me of the infamous boiling frog experiment in which the frog doesn’t feel the water getting hotter until it’s too late. With us, because the level of vulnerability increased gradually, I didn’t notice we had entered intimate territory until we were already there, a process that can typically take weeks or months.
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Athletic performance is freakishly high. Manufacturing quality is off the charts. Now for the bad news. James Surowiecki on the improvability era.
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The New York Times has published an unredacted version of the famous “suicide letter” from the FBI to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As the sun was setting on a stormy Georgia day, Brooke Melton was 30 miles outside of Atlanta in her Chevy Cobalt. It was March 10, 2010, her birthday, and the 29-year-old pediatric nurse was on he...
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How one 13-year-old boy with autism became B.F.F.'s with Apple's Siri |
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Getting caught in a speed trap in a small Louisiana town.
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Law enforcement as revenue generation. Dark stuff...
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In the truest sense, the ability to pay for bail is the ability to buy freedom, and there is a wide disparity in Americans’ ability to do so.
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"Compared to most other countries, the United States has unusually harsh bail policies. The United States holds nearly 500,000 people in jail pre-trial. This is a rate of 153 pretrial inmates for every 100,000 people in the population, which is substantially higher than any other country with a population above 10,000,000 people. In comparison, Canada and France both hold less than 50 individuals for every 100,000 people."
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More great material from Moxie about culture and privacy.
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Every day, cops toss dangerous military-style grenades during raids, with little oversight and horrifying results.
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How do we end this?
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Police officers and prosecutors give tips on civil asset forfeiture, the practice allowing the government, without ever filing a criminal charge, to seize property believed to have ties to crime, in seminars across the country. |
