Leon Barkho (Jonkoping): The Discursive and Social Power of News Discourse: The case of Aljazeera in comparison and parallel with the BBC and CNN. As the stoic voice of fake authority, "PC" John Hodgman discusses trivia and how humans distinguish fact from falsehood (and more). From Culture11, in praise of squares: Why scrupulous people earn more, live longer, and win at life; and is American religiosity responsible for making atheists unhappy? Jezebels with a cause: Whoever was in charge of deciding what to call each generation of feminism knew what she was doing when she settled on the metaphor of waves; well, the next wave has arrived. Just don't call it proselytizing: Nonbelievers think the time is right to better organize their nonreligion and swell the membership. Is the US too big to fail

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