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How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us
How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us transcript The last few episodes of the show have been about attention, but about attention in terms of something else. Attention in ...
Did Carl Sagan write, 'The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas'?
The quote came from an essay titled "Real Patriots Ask Questions," which Sagan co-authored with Ann Druyan, his widow and ...
The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America
On the one hand, we’re living in a world where there are more people on the move than ever. There’s something like a quarter ...
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How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide
Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...