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Boats, betting and Bond: The incredible history of poker

01/22/2016/1 Comment/in Cool Culture, Home Page Featured Post /by Sophie Joyce

There are few card games nor gambling activities which have evolved with quite such pace and character as poker. Its game terminology has worked its way into everyday language, its popularity transcends social class, and its game play has been adapted for the digital age. The fact that poker has experienced such enduring popularity is […]

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12 professions that got disrupted by technology

06/20/2016/0 Comments/in People Power, Tech Time /by Thomas Nybergh

Technological progress has a long-running tendency to make entire professions unnecessary. Your history teacher in high school probably tried hard to point out one of the most well known examples: the Luddites. These English textile artisans didn’t take well to contemporary industrial automation and famously went on a rampage to smash every piece of labor-saving machinery they […]

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Madder than most? Eight writers who suffered from mental illness

11/16/2015/3 Comments/in Book Bash, Home Page Featured Post, People Power /by Thomas Nybergh

Western civilization hasn’t kicked the nasty old habit of stigmatizing mental health in different ways. Except in the arts and literature, maybe. Creatives are allowed to be odd, at least in retrospect. A few words of warning: One needs to tread carefully around this subject to not enable a culture of self-fulfilling prophesies around eccentric […]

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Quiz: How well do you know your 90s commercials?

09/07/2015/0 Comments/in Cool Culture, Home Page Featured Post /by Kathleen Harris

Television shows and movies from the 1990s are getting a lot of love these days. But what about the commercials? Discovering that you still remember a 20-year-old ad word for word is not only testament to the power of advertising, but it can be a huge trip down memory lane for those of us who […]

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