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Guilt-free sex with female look-alikes is an algorithm for the objectification of women The internet and reality morph into what is called the “Nether,” replete with realms in which people can live in alternate realities as the characters they wish they truly were, in the 2013 play titled “The Nether.” As these individuals spend more […]

Young people are depressed and as anxious as ever — some companies see that as a financial opportunity Millennials and members of Generation Z have a lot to be down about. Stagnant wages, skyrocketing housing prices, job automation and a crippling debt crisis have all caused millennials to spiral into a new form of downward […]

Video games provide an unparalleled relationship between you and the world of a story One of the greatest strengths of video games is their ability to transport you to a whole new world. It’s what makes them such great storytellers. But as games have increased their ability to create worlds on a technical level –– […]

A guide for parents and teachers on how to take climate action with America’s youth I remember clearly the first time I understood what death really meant. That all people — parents, brothers, friends and myself — will eventually be no more. I was about five years old, and my dad was watching Braveheart. I […]

If “self-help” worked, there would be no self-help industry “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” is a self-help book that exploded back in 2013 by once-chief operating officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. It’s going to teach me how to succeed as a woman in the workplace for $23 (but a lot of […]

We can avoid the headache of recycling if we become more sustainable We’ve all been there: standing in the middle of the CoHo with trash in your hands and what seems to be a million options on how to recycle the items. It can be intimidating to feel the pressure of “saving the planet” on […]

Automation and artificial intelligence are commonly thought of as threats to only blue-collar jobs. That’s simply not true. In 2013, economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne released a report named “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?” The authors examined the job security of 702 different fields, evaluating how at risk […]

How campfires and lazy conversation will save our lives Campfire stories are a strange genre, living in old memories of childhood summer nights. Maybe some people get the opportunity to sit around a fire and tell tall tales with friends a couple times a year, but very few people I know regularly tell campfire stories […]

Advancements in video games are (rightfully) leading to an increased concern about gaming addiction — and China is bad at fighting it There will soon be more PC gamers in China than the total U.S. population. The statistic alone is mind-boggling, but is even more perplexing when put in context. The massive number of PC […]

The so-called smartphone generation is more than just technologically obsessed   Although I’m not technically a Millennial — I was born in 1998 and missed the cutoff by two years — I’m not really part of Generation Z either. I don’t remember 9/11 but I certainly remember a time before Facebook and Instagram, when the […]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle (said NOT Plato) “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Everyone says Plato said so, but no one really knows. It’s like 2,500-year-old gossip. Besides, “Says Plato,” is a lot catchier for our mugs and mini wall art than “Says […]

Four major agritech corporations now account for 60 percent of the global seed market. It’s time to change that. Earlier this month, PepsiCo stepped down from a controversial league battle with Indian farmers over use of their patented potato seeds. The lawsuit originated when a group of farmers in the Indian state of Gujaret allegedly […]