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  • The 12 Most Depressing Muppet Moments Ever

  • Thursday, March 20
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  • The mood of Jim Henson’s Muppet empire has never been just about goofy, light-hearted antics. From The Muppet Show to Sesame Street to Fraggle Rock, the puppeteer’s casts have always delved into dark territory. Here are some of the most …

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  • All the Great TV You Should Catch Up on This Week

  • Tuesday, March 18
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  • It’s impossible to keep up with everything happening on television these days. We’re here to help. Check out some of the best moments you might have missed last week right here.

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  • Is the News Replacing Literature?

  • In the postwar period, a generation of critics, inspired by Lionel Trilling, encapsulated the difference between high art and popular art in a single word: “complexity.” “Literature,” Trilling wrote, “is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise ...  More
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  • Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet

  • “Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.” That’s what women are told. But these relentless messages are an assault on women’s careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online. We ...  More
  • Thursday, January 9
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  • Crowley Meets Crime Novel In 'Love Is The Law'

  • This isn't your average, young-adult detective yarn; the sexuality is provocative and raw, just this side of prurient. The concepts come fast, thick and tangled. And Dawn's first-person narrative frequently strays into frantic cloud-gathering about the nature of magic and ...  More
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  • I Have a Character Issue

  • My character, to judge from the popularity of Web sites and Facebook pages devoted to hating her, has become a flash point for many people’s feelings about strong, nonsubmissive, ill-treated women. As the hatred of Skyler blurred into loathing for ...  More
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  • The Legend of The Oregon Trail

  • Rawitsch planned to add an element to advance players across the board—perhaps dice or instructional cards. But his roommates, who had taken a few programming classes, had a different idea. “What if we put this thing on a computer?” Heinemann ...  More
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  • A Day Inside Hall H

  • It’s an ugly moment, an unfortunate capper to a great session, to be followed by many of the guys sitting around me offering up tired lines like “I hope they feel empowered now!” and several recitations of the Twilight mantra ...  More
  • Thursday, July 25
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  • Comic-Con leftovers: 20 tons worth

  • Comic-Con, with its 130,000 attendees over four days, may generate millions of dollars in revenues for local businesses, but it also manufactures close to 20 tons of trash on surrounding city streets. That's where the Downtown Partnership's Clean & Safe ...  More
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  • Social Networking in the 1600s

  • But what was the actual impact of coffeehouses on productivity, education and innovation? Rather than enemies of industry, coffeehouses were in fact crucibles of creativity, because of the way in which they facilitated the mixing of both people and ideas. ...  More
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  • If Mad Men Really Addressed Race

  • Much has been made of Mad Men’s tentative handling of racial tensions in the 1960s. The arrival of each new season brings the same anticipation that race may finally be brought to the forefront of the series. But while most ...  More
  • Thursday, April 11
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  • Art After Occupy

  • It’s not typical for artists to go out and see the world. Most prefer to sit politely in their studios and make increasingly refined versions of the same piece until they die. Once, artists had a monopoly on image making. ...  More
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