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Punk Is a Virus That’s Infected Everything

Punk Is a Virus That’s Infected Everything

Tracing punk’s mutations, Iain Ellis’ Punk Beyond the Music is a robust and kaleidoscopic survey of this once-outsider subculture’s continuing, pervasive influence.

Gaming the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

Gaming the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

Did gaming the O.J. Simpson murder trial allow for deeper conversations about our most hidden emotions, ugliest prejudices, and disturbing desires?

You Better Be Quick When It’s Time to BeReal

You Better Be Quick When It’s Time to BeReal

Although most social media sites are marked by abundance and expansiveness, BeReal operates on scarcity. Its gamification lies in the almighty two-minute window.

Punk in the Classroom: Question Everything

Punk in the Classroom: Question Everything

Punk’s “question everything” attitude has always been suited to education, despite the forces that seek to contain its rabble-rousing trouble-making from the classroom.

The Young and the Superpowered in Isolation: Revisiting Anne Dyson’s ‘Writing Superheroes’

An Appeal for Balance: ‘Action Versus Contemplation’

An Appeal for Balance: ‘Action Versus Contemplation’

Billions grapple with a frenetic paradigm shift which scuffs lines between a carefree ant's and a diligent grasshopper's domains.

Morgan Neville on the “Radical Kindness” of ‘Mr. Rogers Neighborhood’

Morgan Neville on the “Radical Kindness” of ‘Mr. Rogers Neighborhood’

Eschewing nostalgia, Morgan Neville of Won’t You Be My Neighbor is far more interested in Fred Rogers’ ideas than his biography.

‘Houston, We Have A Narrative: Why Science Needs Story’ — Just Not This Story

‘Houston, We Have A Narrative: Why Science Needs Story’ — Just Not This Story

Houston, do we have a problem?

The Shape of the World

Teens Don’t Use Twitter (Why Should They?)

“Faggot! Sissy! Queer!”

Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for Americas Soul by Edward Humes