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Prayer Apps Raise Privacy Concerns
One of the most well-known maxims of social media is this: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. For more than a decade, big ...
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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
John de Graaf and his co-authors report in their book, Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, that four million pounds of raw material, such as mined ...
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Finding the True God at Christmas
Christmas is the season of choice. If you want to buy a food processor, Amazon offers you 2,000 types. Or how about a drill—there are more than ...
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That Tempting Big Mac
A woman from Omsk, Russia, is reportedly suing McDonald's over an advertisement featuring cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets, which she said caused ...
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Death Row Last Meal: The Futility of Pleasure
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychiatrist, and author. His writings on man’s search for meaning in the face of ...
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Americans Plan to Scale Back on Holiday Spending This Year
A Gallup poll taken back in October asked Americans to predict how much they’ll spend on Christmas gifts this year. The average came out to $805. ...
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Advertising Invites People to Cult-Like Devotion
Ad executive Douglas Atkin notes that a transformation has taken place in what's expected of the typical ad executive at a major corporation. Rather ...
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The Empty Promises of Minimalism
The overwhelming international success of Japanese minimalist Marie Kondo speaks to the fatigue and disillusionment many feel in our obsessively consumerist ...
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Would One Million Yen Make You Happy?
A Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa, is offering to give 1,000 Twitter followers 1 million yen, or $9,000, each. Almost anybody was eligible to receive ...
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Costly Bad Advice
When a bank teller accidentally deposited $120,000 in the wrong account, the account’s owners went on a shopping spree. State police said a Montoursville, ...
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