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Auxiliary Languages: An International Type of Guy
Joseph Skibell, From My Father's Guitar
Song Premiere: Jacob Metcalf — "One Three Nine"
By Utne Reader Staff
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
By Nik Harron
Secret Stages
By Bradly Girard, Special To Utne Reader
Coming to America: The History of Mail-Order Brides
By Marcia A. Zug
8 Colorful Irish Slang Terms
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We may be living within an “ancestor simulation” being conducted by our future descendants.
Secret Stages
Downtown Birmingham, Alabama has a secret you need to hear.
Coming to America: The History of Mail-Order Brides
Mail-order brides have deep roots in American history, dating back to the colonial period.
Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Gender Blur
Where does biology end and society take over?
Recognizing Core Limiting Beliefs
Certain mental maps form early in life and can hold us back from living to our fullest potential.
La Serenata
Remembering a family restaurant that meant much more to its regulars than a good, Italian dinner.
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Holocaust Humor
By Shai Oster, From Moment
The Gender Blur
By Deborah Blum
Recognizing Core Limiting Beliefs
By John. J. Prendergast, Phd, From The Deep Heart
La Serenata
By Floyd Skloot, From Southwest Review
Arts
The Slow Death of Creativity in Sound
Without evolving creativity and changes, new music will become a lost art.
The Summer of Dead Birds: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Ali Liebegott’s new book circles death like a buzzard.
Old Hollywood’s Forgotten Filmmaker
Take a closer look at James Stuart Blackton, a revolutionary filmmaker in old Hollywood who has received little credit.
The Nile Project: Bringing the River Basin Together and to the World
Think watershed, act local.
Community
How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.
An Economy of False Profits
Our national allegiance to the monetary bottom line threatens to negate other measures of personal and communal wealth. What’s being sacrificed to the cult of money?
Can Blockchain be Used to Achieve Racial Equity?
Achieve racial equity through checks and balances a blockchain network provides by connecting everyone as nodes while still providing anonymity.
Stop Trying to Understand Neutrois
Julia Eff talks about the daily struggles of life as someone without a gender.
Mind And Body
Growing Up Hippie
Maybe it was the earnest meditation practices or the homemade cardboard lunch box that caused me to rebel. As the adult daughter of flower children, I crave structure, tidiness, and lots of sugar....
Into the Rafters
Reflections on a football dream cut short.
Football Helmets and Concussions
Take a look at the concussion epidemic plaguing football players.
The Will-to-Live-Until Phenomenon
Sometimes, the human body fends off death for reasons we don’t yet fully understand.
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