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    • The language trap [full version]
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    • Gender role critique in ‘Neuromancer’ [full version]
    • Patriarchy in ‘The Color Purple’ – critiquing the critique
    • Racism in ‘Heart of Darkness’ [full version]
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    • Myths, fairytales, folktales: the prototypes of all narrative? [full version]
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    • Does language make humans distinct from other animals? [full version]
    • Public compliance vs private acceptance in conformity [full version]
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    • Broadsheet article: Outrage as mentally ill woman forced to give birth in a stable*
    • Echo article: BU lecturer charged for bank robbery*
    • Feature article: The ‘worthless’ demographic: beggars, buskers and Big Issue sellers.
    • Interview feature article: They hid the glue in my underwear drawer
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    • ‘Ad Meliora – Fragment I’ – text: Geo S. Willis, audio: Dan Clarke

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• Learning Polish would have been easier with these tables from the start
• Who owns who – your phone or you?
• Couldn’t have put this better myself…
• Facebook undertakes pointless experiment, manipulates 689,000 users.
• Science fiction’s real life war of the worlds
• 1984: the instruction manual for our time (via Scriptonite Daily)
• On why women who like women sometimes like women who look like men
• Puissant review of ‘The Scar’ by China Mieville
• Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report >> via The Guardian
• My love, my choice: on Cynthia Nixon and why gay is sometimes better « Thought Catalog
• Building the Master’s House: How the Construction of Heterosexuality Happened >> Autostraddle
• Is ‘Fringe”s Peter who he seems to be?
• What’s in a name?
• Christmas: meh to mesmerisation, merriment to moderation
• “Lady Gaga Won’t Empower You For Shit” by Drew Magary, via Deadspin

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[today’s top posts]

• Public compliance vs private acceptance in conformity [short version]
• Learning Polish would have been easier with these tables from the start
• Public compliance vs private acceptance in conformity [full version]
• Myths, fairytales, folktales: the prototypes of all narrative? [full version]
• Book review: ‘Nation’ – Terry Pratchett

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