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The virtues of no opinion
What's wrong with waiting until all the facts are in?
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The millennial phenomenon of HBO's 'Girls'
Does Lena Dunham speak for her generation?
The struggles of Millennials, while in some ways similar to the struggle of all generations at this age, are not carbon copies because society has progressed, and the economy has digressed.
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Native American Voices at Penn Museum
A few things my gym teacher never taught me
Native Americans are living in our midst, as a wonderful combination of artistry and technology at the Penn Museum makes abundantly clear.
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What working at Eastern State Penitentiary taught me about child bans
It was a sobering privilege to see young minds grapple with new paradigms while working as a tour guide at Eastern State Penitentiary.
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Philly Improv Theater
The power of 'Yes, and . . . '
Entering the parallel universe of improvisational comedy.
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Cloud computing for the confused
Cloudy with a chance of sun
It’s such an appealing trope, the notion of a big container filled with Everything That Matters, everything that ever was. We don’t like to think of things disappearing forever, vanishing without a trace. Especially ourselves. And maybe that’s what’s comforting about the Cloud, both as metaphor and engineered reality.
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Living in a world of virtual reality
Whatever happened to “be here now”?
From Google Glass to theme park adventures, technology increasingly mediates and possibly attenuates our experience of social and physical realities.
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A touching father-son moment
Bedtime story
There's no father-son moment quite like the bedtime story.
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