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Link The Pleasures of Imagination
How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with…

June 1 2010, 3:54am | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments
Link How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture…

August 8 2009, 4:41pm | Comments
Link Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss -…
This is the whole of the experimental film, It Felt Like a Kiss. It was the basis of the show [Adam Curtis] did in Manchester with Punchdrunk. The show may…

July 27 2009, 5:52pm | Comments
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June 23 2009, 2:47am | Comments
Link Adam Curtis: It Felt Like a Kiss
It Felt Like a Kiss started life as an experimental film I made for the BBC last year. My aim was to try and find a more involving and emotional…

June 20 2009, 5:39am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Obama's Address to the State of Non-belief
As a British citizen I watched the inauguration speech of America's 44th President with a warm but distanced interest. But as someone who was…

January 26 2009, 12:52am | Comments
Metafilter A nation of nonbelievers "The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion." ~ George Washington / "I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature."…

January 20 2009, 12:40pm | Comments

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