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Topic: Book excerpts (page 6)

"How to Be Human in the Digital Economy" by Nicholas Agar (MIT Press)

Uber vs. Airbnb: divergent paths

Nicholas Agar
"Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China" by Karoline Kan (Hachette Books)

"Better not become a leftover woman"

Karoline Kan
"Spotify Teardown" by Anna Johansson, Maria Eriksson, Patrick Vonderau, Pelle Snickars, and Rasmus Fleischer (Getty/MIT Press)

Uploading bad music to Spotify

Maria Eriksson, Rasmus Fleischer, Anna Johansson, Pelle Snickars, Patrick Vonderau
(Getty/martin-dm)

Dating apps aren't just for hooking up

Margaret E. Morris
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Open adoption reunion

Vanessa McGrady
"I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman's Guide to a Meaningful Life" by John Kim (Harper Collins)

Men: We don't have to be miserable jerks

John Kim
Thorstein Veblen; Donald Trump (Wikimedia/Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Trump, America and Thorstein Veblen

Sidney Plotkin
Apple Crumble (Shereen Herber)

A dessert for every season

Vickie Reh
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"Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race" by Brian May and David J. Eicher; Earthrise (MIT Press/NASA)

"Earthrise" (and Apollo 8) turns 50

David J. Eicher, Brian May
Steve Mnuchin (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Steve Mnuchin's reign of destruction

Rebecca Burns, David Dayen - Independent Media Institute
"The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas" by Roberto Simanowski (MIT Press/Getty/Salon)

How the internet imperils good civics

Roberto Simanowski
"Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry" by Imani Perry (Beacon Press)

Lorraine Hansberry, American radical

Imani Perry
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A man grows marijuana plants at a farm. (Getty/Raul Arboleda)

Big Marijuana vs. craft weed

Ryan Stoa
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Tracing my African American genealogy

Kenyatta D. Berry
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How will you change your life?

Mark W. Erwin
"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith A. Spencer; Steve Jobs (Eyewear Publishing/Getty/ Justin Sullivan)

Why tech is full of bootlickers

Keith A. Spencer
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"Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" by Robert Plomin (MIT Press/Getty/Firstsignal)

Why DNA molds you more than parenting

Robert Plomin
John F Kennedy (Getty/Central Press)

We can't forget JFK's assassination

Gaeton Fonzi
"When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss" by Jessica Wilbanks (Beacon Press/Anna Sneed)

I lost my faith and nearly lost myself

Jessica Wilbanks
"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith Spencer (Getty/Eyewear Publishing)

Why comments sections must die

Keith A. Spencer
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"A People's History of Silicon Valley" by Keith A. Spencer (Squint Books/Getty/PPAMPicture)

Silicon Valley's shift to surveillance

Keith A. Spencer
Amid the fighting for the Walled City, MacArthur returns to the ruins of his home atop the once-luxurious Manila Hotel on February 23, 1945. (National Archives)

Escape from the Philippines, 1942

James M. Scott
President Jimmy Carter just minutes before he addressed the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington by radio and television, Jan. 4, 1980. The president announced a complete halt of shipments of U.S. high technology to the Soviet Union and a partial embargo on American grain sales because of the Russian intervention in Afghanistan. (AP/Barry Thumma)

Profiting off Carter's grain embargo

Tom Dittmer
(Getty/metamorworks)

Why data is the new oil

Terrence J. Sejnowski
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