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predicting the future
I like the idea behind the show occasionally aired on Animal Planet and Discovery, The Future Is Wild. Since the process of evolution never stops, what might be living on Earth over the millions of...
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no m.d., no prescription pad
Here’s another one of my BusinessWeek essays inspired by real events, an argument in favor of holding TV talk show hosts liable for promoting quack medicine and harming audience members. Yes I know, we...
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sex on tv equals teen pregnancies?
A few days ago I came across an article on Time.com from November of 2008 which claims that a team at the RAND Corporation found a strong, empirical link between exposure to sexual content on TV shows...
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a look at monstrous wildlife, graboid edition
Once upon a time there was a little movie about a fictional town somewhere in New Mexico overrun by an old and bizarre subterranean species with an insatiable appetite and the ability to sneak up on...
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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?
A feature piece on the Dr. Oz Show and the man behind it is up at the New Yorker, and as most features on a controversial topic in the New Yorker go, it’s long and none too flattering. In it, he’s...
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sex on tv equals teen pregnancies?
Illustration by Valeriy Katrevich A few days ago I came across an article on Time.com from November of 2008 which claims that a team at the RAND Corporation found a strong, empirical link between...
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Once upon a time there was a little movie about a fictional town somewhere in New Mexico overrun by an old and bizarre subterranean species with an insatiable appetite and the ability to sneak up on...
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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?
Illustration by Glen Southern A feature piece on the Dr. Oz Show and the man behind it is up at the New Yorker, and as most features on a controversial topic in the New Yorker go, it’s long and none...
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