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» BAD VIBES: Poison Pleasure Products?
interview by Brian Awehali and Lisa Jervis When Jennifer Pritchett, Jesse Jacobsen, and Jessica Giordani opened up their Minneapolis-based sex toy store, The Smitten Kitten, in August 2003, they wanted...
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» INVENTING THANKSGIVING: The Construction of a Fictive Holiday
by Brian Awehali Every year, as Thanksgiving approaches, and Christmas music begins to permeate every public space, I am filled with profound ambivalence. Even as a child, the standard Thanksgiving...
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» UNDER THE ETERNAL SKY: Mongolia’s Wilderness and People Threatened by...
by Brian Awehali An article I wrote based on my travels in Mongolia was published in Earth Island Journal, then subsequently picked up by the Guardian, and I cordially invite you, dear reader, to check...
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» THE RIVER VS. WATER, INC..: An interview with Vandana Shiva
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, and author of hundreds of papers and articles and more than 15 books. She is the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science,...
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» THE MORALITY OF WORK IS THE MORALITY OF SLAVES: A Call for a More Rational...
by Bertrand Russell (1932) I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and...
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» LIFE AFTER DEATH: A Gleefully Morbid Exploration of Cadavers, Body Donation...
Erin Wiegand interviews Mary Roach With one book written on cadavers (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers) and another on ghosts (Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife), you might expect Mary...
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» MADNESS & MASS SOCIETY: Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry & the Rebellion of True...
Brian Awehali interviews Dr. Bruce Levine Author and clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine wants to tell you that many forms of depression, discontent, and a whole raft of diagnosed mental illness are...
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» PROPAGANDA, PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND THE NOT-SO-NEW DARK AGE
by Stephen Bender and Brian Awehali (from the online release of Tipping the Sacred Cow-The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt) Edward L. Bernays birthed the public relations industry in the United States....
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» LONG LIVE THE OUTLAWS: The Great Art and Forgery of Elmyr de Hory
by Brian Awehali Most petty crime is dull, in both motivation and execution. But I have always wished I could be a great outlaw. Consider the outlaw, and the merits of his or her avocation: the...
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» BERNARD LOOMIS: King of Toys No Longer Monetizing Childhood Imaginations
by Brian Awehali Bernard Loomis (July 4, 1923 – June 2, 2006), the marketing genius who did far more than anyone else to help transform children’s television programming into a promotional arm of the...
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