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		<title>Teens Care About Online Privacy—Just Not the Same Way You Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Keller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berkman Center for Internet Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pew Research Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenagers]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why do teenagers behave the way that they do online, sharing personal information with just about anybody who wants it? Look to the privacy paradox.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/65mLlkIOlPg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What Are the Teens Up to Nowadays?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan O'Hanlon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teens]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do you have a "teen" study? It's probably stupid.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/CiEZKGUspa0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Alone With Everyone Else</title>
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		<comments>http://www.psmag.com/culture/pluralistic-ignorance-55562/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vince Beiser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May-June 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pluralistic Ignorance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[There's a Name For That]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ever found yourself at odds with what you thought was the majority opinion? There's a name for that.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/CbqDSx8S3UU" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How to Entice People to Buy Symphony Tickets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Jacobs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Findings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beethoven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symphony]]></category>

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		<title>The Harry Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Luzer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Harry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royalty]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The American fascination with royal families has been around for centuries, almost since we stopped having one of our own.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/zM4ZZNKC92c" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why Pornography Deserves Its Own Academic Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Comella</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porn Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pornography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholarship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[And why the academic study of porn is nothing new.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/6VSrw-67zLI" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Why Is China Stealing Cities, Towns, and Buildings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan O'Hanlon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copy Towns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halstatt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sebastian Acker]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[We don't really know, but if anybody does, it's Phil Thompson.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/5RsQTPXJ_Lw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Your Addiction to Dots May Be Helping Your Brain (Sort of)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bejeweled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casual Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Dexterity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Research on casual games—games that are quick to access, easy to learn, and require no special knowledge—is ongoing, but early studies suggest that playing them improves skill-specific cognitive...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/CB2u34dKi74" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Death-Positive Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim O'Connor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death-Positive Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Order of the Good Death]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Meet three young women who want to teach our repressed society how to explore its relationship with death.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/xWc4HV_j1bs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thoughts of Faith and God Decrease Tolerance for Ambiguity</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~3/AJcSX93G3_E/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/christian-concepts-decrease-tolerance-for-ambiguity-57884/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Jacobs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Findings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prejudice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religiosity]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[New research finds exposure to Christian ideas—or even standing in the shadow of a cathedral—nudges people in the direction of black-and-white thinking.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/AJcSX93G3_E" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Who Was Benoit Gysemburgh?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~3/U8_yuH0XTTY/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psmag.com/culture-society/who-was-benoit-gysemburgh-57857/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Herman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marguerite Duras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paris Match]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you said "a famous photographer," you'd be half right.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/U8_yuH0XTTY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What a Beautiful Dress You’ve Chosen to Ruin Your Life In</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~3/Ti8Jd-3fOjg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Luzer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Enthusiasm for the clothes of The Great Gatsby don’t indicate blindness toward the tragedy of the story. The tragedy is part of the appeal.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/Ti8Jd-3fOjg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Changing Face of America</title>
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		<comments>http://www.psmag.com/culture/the-changing-face-of-america-57688/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Sharp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Pew’s Paul Taylor on trends in the racial/ethnic breakdown of the U.S. population over the last century.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/Gpx6cD1YBv4" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mao’s Granddaughter Is Filthy Rich. Who Cares?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Herman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture & Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kong Dongmei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mao Zedong]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is Kong Dongmei a classic gold digger figure, who traded on her name when it suited her, then schemed her way into wealth? Or a keeper of the family legacy?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/XwYJP2uuQho" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Melting-Pot Gazette</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May-June 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Can a sociologist and a journalist get an ethnically fractured city engaged?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/miller-mccune/culture_feed/~4/HJ-rUNT-d40" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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