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Social aspects

Looks et veritas

by Shosuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu, Hajime Hasegawa, Teruyoshi Hayashida,

Plight Simulator

Lines of dialogue from a test version of the First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer game developed by a research team at the University of Texas at Dallas. The game…

Smell is other people

by Tina DiCarlo,

Improvable feasts

by Alain De Botton,

Own Goal

by Wells Tower,

How homeless soccer explains the world

Last call

by Edward Hoagland,

Old age and the end of nature

Loaner Hearts

Translated by Spencer Woodman,

From personals posted in January to online classified sites in China. Chinese New Year was celebrated on February 14. Translated from the Chinese by Spencer Woodman. I’m looking for a…

Arrivals

by Alain De Botton,

Doing the laundry

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Arabian night

by Sophia Al-Maria,

Lonely Hearts Club

by Darryl Pinckney,

A star-crossed obsession with As The World Turns