“I was 10 years old in 1992 when Kabul was bombarded by warring forces, and life became a cycle of hunger, fear and horror.”
Carolyn Wells
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The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses
“Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing challenges in the real world.”
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The Lurker
“The obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserable
It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.”
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Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era
“The creator economy is fragmented and chaotic. Talent manager Ursus Magana can (almost) make sense of it, with a frenetic formula for gaming the algorithms.”
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Will Speer Found Hope Enough to Share on Texas’s Death Row
“He’s one of the first faith-based coordinators for Texas inmates facing the death penalty. He’s scheduled to be executed this week.”
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Winging It with the New Backcountry Barnstormers
“Throughout the lower 48, recreational bush pilots are using their nimble planes and social media influence to spread the word about bold frontiers in flight.”
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How to Exclaim!
The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.”
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Who’s Afraid of Spatchcocked Chicken?
“Squeamishness around meat is embedded into the English language — and by extension, Western attitudes towards the realities of meat.”
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I Evacuated From Yellowknife This Summer. Coming Home Was The Hardest Part.
“I evacuated from Yellowknife this summer. Coming home was the hardest part.”
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Do You Need a Visit to the Confident Man Ranch?
“At the foot of the Rockies, the operators of a dude ranch retreat are blending cowboy culture and group therapy.”