The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. | | | | | George Orwell's "1984" (1984) (Atlantic Releasing Corporation) | | | | |  | “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
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 | The Brookings Institution |
| While looking at number of influences on the presidential vote outcome, we found that in a year of massive divides, one particular economic split stands out. With few exceptions Clinton won every large-sized county economy in the country. | | |
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 | Literary Hub |
| Online these days, the more “shares,” the better. Oversharing is no longer a liability. It’s the whole point. Social media platforms want us to believe that such constant disclosure is a way not on… | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| Beverly Pennington was a Pinterest-perfect entrepreneur whose patchwork quilts-made from people's most treasured T-shirts-found thousands of devotees all over the country. But when the quilts stopped coming, leaving the shirts in limbo, her customers pieced together a plan to fight back. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. "When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling," she says. She has a name for this feeling: The hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is God's whisper in her ear. But what happens when it stops? Is she anything besides the hum? In this moving talk, join Rhimes on a journey through her "year of yes" and find out how she got her hum back. | | |
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 | Edge |
| My academic background is in computer science and philosophy. My work has been about the relationship between those two fields. What do we learn about being human by thinking about the quest to create artificial intelligence? | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| John Carreyrou and Michael Siconolfi of "The Wall Street Journal" discuss the investigation of Theranos with guest host Jeff Glor. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. | | |
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 | Men's Journal |
| For Mike Callaghan and his son Brogan, football was everything. But when the 11-year-old QB was sidelined by a head injury, Callaghan faced an agonizing, all too common choice. | | |
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 | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| Since the revolts that took the region by storm in 2010 and 2011, the Arab world continues to face a diverse set of sociopolitical challenges. Each of the countries studied in this report--Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia–has responded to the uprisings differently. | | |
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 | The New Statesman |
| Let’s talk about songs, with the people who sing them. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| In this in-depth story, Ollie Stallwood visits an illegal Japanese drift scene and reports first-hand on the culture he discovers. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| If you were to write a history of Silicon Valley, you could do it by looking at a series of major diaspora. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Oracle and PayPal.. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| He has the next president’s ear. Here’s what 13 hours and 11 minutes of fever-dream conservative viewing says about his dark worldview. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The term, and the movement, may tell us something about how the country is changing. | | |
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 | Moyers & Company |
| Look in the mirror, America. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| The onetime insurgent candidate is now in a position to reshape the Democratic Party and take on Donald Trump. | | |
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 | Ofcom |
| This report provides detailed evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15, as well as detailed information about the media access and use of young children aged 3-4. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| “The State of Fashion 2017 Report”, which analyses the performance of the global fashion industry and provides a forecast for 2017. BoF and McKinsey & Company analysed 450 fashion companies and surveyed 140 industry experts and company executives. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| IFTTT wants all of our devices and services to work better together. But will other companies pay the necessary tolls? | | |
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 | Pitchfork |
| After writing with Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira, Justin Raisen spent 2016 co-producing Angel Olsen’s My Woman and the debut solo single from Kim Gordon. How did he earn their trust? | | |
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 | Salon |
| With the phony Carrier deal, Trump has raised his supporters' expectations even higher. This can't end well. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The Spanish director made a name for himself with raunchy, transgressive films. His latest is a tender adaptation of Alice Munro. | | |
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