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Fickle Beauty Beauty standards, especially across time and cultures, and recent changes. |
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Love at First Sight How immediate attraction works (or doesn't work) |
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Long Shots Noble causes that seem doomed |
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Super heroes, Superpowers Fascination with and experience of fantastic people, characters, and powers |
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Writing on the Wall The fate of speech in public spaces—soapbox, graffiti, public access media, etc. |
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Engineering Ourselves Brain and body bio-enhancements—drugs, surgery, bio-engineering, cybernetics |
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Prediction Guessing the future with intuition, models (mathematical, historical), etc. |
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Scoring Life Music in films, political campaigns, news shows; ipods as personal soundtracks |
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Form Follows Function Formulas—genre, mathematical, etc.—in fiction, film, music |
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Mind Control Who does it and how—monks, sorcerers, ad executives, artists, mothers, etc. |
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Divine Divide Growing up in Religiously Divided House or Community |
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Remaking the Things We Live by and through Using things for purposes never intended |
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Water Works Water politics, water ceremonies, water guns, water rituals, and the like |
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Sound States Sound as a transformative force—music therapy, sound art, epiphony |
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Invisible Voices Voice actors, call centers, séances—anywhere the disembodied voice reigns |
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Playing the Numbers Lotteries around world, stock markets, numerology, actuarial science, etc. |
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Love Strategies Arranged marriages, seduction, manipulations, rituals, counseling |
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Living in the Panopticon Experiences of surveillance: cubicle farms, security & web cams, Google street view, etc. |
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Hidden Forces, Hidden Powers Telluric Currents, ESP, Magnetoception, Electroreception, Clairvoyance, etc. |
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Fake It ‘Til You Make it What we do until we get to do what we want to do |
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The Way We Never Were Nostalgia more real than history |
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The Rumor Mill The power of rumors, unbelievable rumors, and how they work |
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One Night Stands Experiences never to be repeated |
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Drowning Literal and metaphorical stories of being overwhelmed, sinking, dissolving |
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Better Late Than Never Transformations, relinquishments, or accomplishments long overdue |
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The New Old West Untold stories from the frontier; rethinking the West’s myths |
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We’ll Teach You When people, groups, or even countries, seemingly less advanced, turn the tables |
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Fakers Being taken for, or pretending to be, someone else |
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Safety Dance The lengths we go to for a sense of security—and the consequences |
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Apologies Long Overdue Saying sorry to your 2rd grade friend, deceased loved-one, etc. |
