CULTURE

This Content Is Dangerous: Trauma in the Age of YouTube

Digital space is both the crime scene and respite.

Remember when a great concern of the zeitgeist was whether playing violent video games would encourage violent behavior?

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CULTURE

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Tone Deaf Tweet Is Exactly What's Wrong with the Gun Debate

Tyson attempted to frame an incomprehensible tragedy into understandable terms, and he failed—so do Republican policy-makers.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most brilliantly analytical minds of today, but he clearly has trouble discerning when to use words instead of data.

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