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This Summer, Design a Daily Recess: 7 Ways to Have More Fun
An earlier version of this article appeared June 19, 2023 Toward the end of summer, have you ever felt that you wished you’d done more with those months? Life feels richer and more memorable when each season of the year feels special in some way. One way we can make this summer distinctive? Give ourselves…
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How Pop Music Became Simpler, Darker, and More Self-Centered
Today’s lyrics are becoming darker in tone, simpler in form, and more centered on the isolated self. What does that say about the culture singing along? Popular music is one way a culture expresses its values and rehearses its moral vocabulary. By looking at song lyrics from a particular time and place, we can get…
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Asteroid Mining & Death from Above
Having written on the ethics of asteroid mining, I thought I would return to this subject and address an additional moral concern, namely the potential dangers of asteroid (and comet) mining. My concern here is not with the dangers to the miners but with dangers to our home world and the rest of us. While…
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