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ELLEUKTV / YouTube World Politics, Minus the Men
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Eric Pickersgill ‘Removed’: A Photographer Captures the Isolation Effect of Cellphones
Eric Pickersgill’s eerie photo series serves as a reminder to put your devices away.
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Shane Adams / Flickr What's Lost When Most People Work From Home
“If the office is going to become a collection of employees not working together, it essentially becomes no different than a coffee shop.”
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Gilles Mingasson / ABC Fresh Off the Boat and the Revolutionary Act of Kissing
The show and its fellow ABC sitcom Dr. Ken are showing many viewers something they might rarely encounter at home.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Researchers Can Tell People's Incomes From Their Tweets
Lower-salaried Twitter users swear more; those who make more money are more likely to talk politics.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Quality of Death Around the World
An Economist index ranks the best places to die, and details the huge difference made by one doctor in Mongolia.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters The Better The Credit Score, the Longer-Lasting The Relationship
Researchers theorize that a good score is a proxy for “an individual’s general trustworthiness and commitment to non-debt obligations.”
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Paris Cut Smog By Banning Cars for a Day
And the mayor wants to do it once a month.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Rise of the Outrageously Long Commute
Some businesspeople are working half of the week in far-off countries or catching 3 a.m. trains just so that they don’t have to uproot their lives at home.
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Reuters Japan's Government Offered Companies Money to Promote Women—and Not One Took It
The country’s prime minister wants women to hold 30 percent of senior jobs by 2020, but it’s around 8 percent now and hardly budging.
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Giada Fiorindi / Quartz The Case for Expensive Clothes
Spending significant money on each piece of clothing means seeing a purchase as an investment, not a cheap (and exploitative) thrill.
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Christophe Ena / Reuters Honoring Louis XIV in 2015
Versailles turned on the water of its first new fountain—featuring 2,000 glass beads and controllable by iPhone—in 300 years.
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Michael Caronna / Reuters When the Ads Are Watching You Back
New technology rolled out in London this summer allows advertisements to track viewer’s facial expressions.
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Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP Choose Your Own Adventure: HBO Edition
A new TV project helmed by the Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh could let audiences decide what happens next.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters The Enduring Political Power of Leaders’ Dead Bodies
As Russia exhumes Tsar Nicholas II, a look at the world's most prominent remains
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Why Do Women Think About the Downsides of Promotions More Than Men Do?
Male and female workers both easily imagine the good that comes with career advancement—but women have an easier time imagining the bad.
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Christophe Ena / AP What Rugby Can Teach America About Honoring Indigenous Culture
The 'haka,' a Maori war dance performed by the All Blacks at the beginning of games, is a meaningful, respectful nod to New Zealand's history.
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David McNew / Reuters The End of the 'Waze Left'
The company behind the navigation app is looking for a way to reduce its signature treacherous left turns.
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newsoresund / Flickr Sex Ed in Denmark: Have Kids Earlier
Falling birth rates lead to a spiced-up curriculum.
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Pavel Golovkin / AP Why Ikea Causes So Much Relationship Tension
The stylish, idealized home in the store’s showroom “literally becomes a map of a relationship nightmare,” says one psychologist.
