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Emotional Labor Long Undervalued Safe from Automation Erraticus Image by Zach Vessels
(Zach Vessels)
Ideas Science & Tech 

Emotional Labor, Long Undervalued, Is Safe from Automation

May 20, 2019June 1, 2020 5 min read Henry Cowles Automation, Emotional Intelligence, Gender

Emotional labor is common to historically underpaid jobs held mostly by women. How will the rise of automation change the way it’s valued?

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Stereotypes Are Like Sediment Erraticus Image by Michael Prewett
(Michael Prewett)
Culture Ideas 

Stereotypes Are Like Sediment

December 18, 2018May 19, 2021 6 min read Jonathan Webber Gender, Racism

It’s said that our actions are based on immediate intuitions, informed by accumulated stereotypes. Are we merely puppets of inherited ideologies?

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Geek Culture is Mainstream, But Geek Girls Remain Left Behind
(Andrew Kelly)
Culture Essays 

Geek Culture is Mainstream, but Geek Girls Remain Left Behind

April 10, 2017June 3, 2020 6 min read Heather Cazad Film, Gender

Geek girls are vying for top-billing in a culture that used to ignore them and now frequently makes self-deprecating jokes about male geeks’ inability to coherently talk to women. Female representation is diversifying as women continue to grow as a consumer block, but women and girls deserve more.

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An online publication focused on human flourishing, taking a pragmatic approach to ideas. We care about ideas that help us to live well together, focusing on their practical consequences.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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