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21st century

Land of Sod

Southern California homeowners vs. nature

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Acceptable Losses

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen

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Findings

FMRI studies of white Americans watching white people and black people being poked by a needle and rubbed by an eraser confirmed the well-established differential empathic activation for race (DEAR…

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It’s Not How They Say It

From an interview with a girl in a reintegration program for former child soldiers in Colombia.

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The New New Narcissism

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

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Test Perp

From a questionnaire created by Northpointe, a company that develops software to determine the likelihood that a defendant in a criminal trial will break the law in the future. The…

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Atlas Aggregated

No social encounter delights me more than meeting a doctor at a cocktail party. In clinical settings, doctors tend to be guarded and aloof. Catch one with a whiskey in…

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Graveyard Shift

From work-related fatalities reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 2014.

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Lotion

By Simone White, from Of Being Dispersed, a collection of poetry that was published in May by Futurepoem Books. White’s previous collection is Unrest.

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