...pass the hours until more normal conditions return. So too can prosaic solitary activities, like collecting wildflowers, swimming in ponds or the sea, and marking the shapes of scudding clouds....
...wrong to pass along naked photos of someone we know, but we feel freer to talk about who they’ve slept with, which can be just as damaging. Radical-transparency advocates might...
...but they are an implicit critique of the infrastructure of working, the charms and nice smells with which people survive the painful world. So loving a crazy person forces you...
...Cup in 2015? It would make sense, in some ways. Internationally speaking, women’s soccer still lags behind men’s in popularity and professional participation, but in the United States, that wasn’t...
...brains are rife with hidden knots, the release of which depends on triggers that can be pulled almost without our knowing, or understanding why. The first professional physical massage I...
...the strategy of urging all arts organizations to strive to earn more money, an approach that ultimately feeds professional autonomy.” But market reforms and globalization have done little to introduce...
...they are there through tracking or by chance. Did the latest offer from McDonald’s come because the New York Times sold space to McDonald’s, or because your profile was sold...
...of material luxury, a tan represents that we have the luxury to be connected to both nature and culture simultaneously. Tourism boards use tanning in their materials: “The bourgeois on...
...in me. Today, however, it is less charismatic autocrats that threaten to evoke this feeling than a web of largely incomprehensible technological infrastructure. As sociologist Mark Andrejevic has argued, environments...
...contamination and corrosion, in three places, from the planned oil pipeline. As well as representing an ideology, Mni Wiconi is thus a literal pre-existing infrastructure serving several parts of nearby...
...Anning and the Flying Dragon Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ "Only one note went into Pogge’s permanent record. It was for...
...do over the course of a winter, replacing its organs with new infrastructure vein by valve, and it isn’t even quite true that we were fighting communists, just people in...
...those around you, nor to put them in compromising personal or professional circumstances through your writing. 3. The confessional journalist must not be boring. The following subjects are boring: the...