As tourists, many of us are more devoted to future memories than the actual experience.
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Daniel Kahneman on Tourism
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Tintin in the Heart of Darkness
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Spielberg’s latest hero as an accessory to Belgian colonialism.
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Th Doh of Homer; The Doh of Jimmy
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The Life & Times of an Interjection
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Bagel Mood Swings
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The Yin and Yang of an Edible Icon
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Capital Steps
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Stairs & Stoops: Their Geology, Truth, and Consequences
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36 Views of Korean Grieving
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In the wake of their epic tragedy, North Koreans show that their facial sovereignty is second to none.
Lou Wigdor
Amherst, Massachusetts
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Darwinian Fitness, Not Trophyism
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You might call these photos fresh from the hunt crass trophyism. Wig & Pen blog applauds them as an honest celebration of fitness, Darwinian fitness.
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Duct tape for the Hollidays: A Family Affair
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Sometime in the 1990s, duck tape began to replace rope and other traditional means of restraint in the movies and on TV. Solving that mystery can prove a rewarding recreation for the whole family.
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Duct Tape for the Holidays: A Family Affair
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A holiday project for family & friends: Identify & discuss when duct tape replaced rope as means of restraint in the movies and on TV.
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Steal This Blog: Abbie Hoffman Revisited
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Tales from the blogger’s hood:1961-1971
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: Are they John Dowlands’s True Heirs?
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are authentic musical symbiotes. They are also leading 21st Century exponents of musical melancholia in the dark tradition of the post-Elizabethan composer and lutenist, John Dowland.
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Seasonality in Syria
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The vulnerable Syrian government is bracing itself for the month of Ramadan, which begins on July 31 at sundown. In the Arab world, there’s no more explosive seasonal powder keg, when millions of fasting Muslims converge daily in their mosques. It’s a month of networking that rivals anything that the Internet has to offer.
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In the Gods We Trust: Bootsy Collins in Worcester
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Cultural Commentary Lifting You Higher
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Giving Credits where Credits Are Due?
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Massachusetts’ Film Tax Incentive Program Reconsidered
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The Young Adult Brain in Action!: Tales from the Amherst, Massachusetts Police Blotter
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To Err or Not to Err Is Human!
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Meditations on Annoying (The Book)
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Annoying Is as Annoying Does.
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Glass-Is-Half-Empty Weather Forecast Images
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Don’t be fooled by the National Weather Service’s Glass-Is-Half-Empty Weather Forecast Images.
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Graduation Wishes from on High
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Astronaut Cady Coleman spoke at UMass Amherst’s 2011 Undergraduate Commencement on Friday from outer space. View her extraterrestrial message and choreography here:
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An Unexpected behind the Barak Pass
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Turning away from the American Public, President Obama Embraces Us–
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Is this Not a Peccary?
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Peccaries for Peace in the Land of Zion.
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Letting their Freak Flags Fly
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James Taylor, Paul Simon and their fans cope with hair loss
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Hitlers in America: Their Long-Odds Struggle for Survival
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The Brand that Was You–2011
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A Top 10 roster of Do-it-yourself Obit “Brands” from Northampton, Massachusetts’ Daily Hampshire Gazette
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Trance Music at Amherst College
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On March 25th Mahmoud Ahmed and the Either/Orchestra–Ethiopia’s Greatest Singer and Boston’s Most Dangerous Jazz Band– Delivered in Spades
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A Chip off the Old Corporate Block
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The next time you reach for a Dorito, consider its rounded corners. Those beveled vertices are soft, but it wasn’t always that way. Before the great Dorito makeover of 1994, they came to sharp points, just like at your friendly Mexican restaurant. Back then high-profile lawsuits against food manufacturers/purveyors and, of course, the tobacco companies, were all the rage and the source of deep-dish corporate neuroses.
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