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Rembrandt Captured the Goodness of Old Age
According to the British art critic Jonathan Jones, many Renaissance artists were "coldly curious" or even cruel in their depictions of old ...
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Michael Scott (The Office) Can't See His Weaknesses
Background: Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) is the obnoxious manager on the hit TV show The Office. Michael, the manager of Dunder Mifflin's office ...
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Photographer Documents the Global Beauty Craze
Over a five-year period, photographer Zed Nelson visited seventeen countries as he documented the global craze for beauty. In his book, Love Me, Nelson ...
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TV Show Breaking Bad on the Dangers of Pride
The critically-acclaimed TV show Breaking Bad centers on the story of Walter White, a bored high school chemistry teacher who discovers that he has stage ...
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When Our Spiritual Life Resembles a Treadmill
Treadmills are fun if you want to get a little exercise. Unfortunately, for many people, religion feels like running on a treadmill: they're working hard ...
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Fame Is the Highest Value on Preteen TV Shows
A 2011 paper by a team of psychologists at UCLA analyzed the values of characters in popular television shows for the past four decades. They evaluated ...
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People' Magazine's Cover Stories Reveal Our Priorities
In his book Life: The Movie, cultural critic Neil Gabler claims that People magazine has became the archetypical magazine of our times. Gabler writes:
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Humility Tears Down the Fortress of Pride
Ego builds a cardboard fortress that humility must, every day, tear down.
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Business Expert Sees Growing "Comparison Obsession"
Thomas J. DeLong, a professor at Harvard Business School, has noted a disturbing trend among his students and colleagues—a "comparison obsession." ...
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Columnist David Brooks Reflects on Overconfidence
"We're an overconfident species," contends New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks calls it a "magnification of the self," ...
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