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The State of Things
12:07 pm
Tue May 14, 2013

How Storytelling Influences The Way We Think And Act

Credit Joe McHugh / http://www.joemchugh.info
Slaying The Gorgon The Rise of the Storytelling Industrial Complex


Joe McHugh says we spend too much time focusing on what information people consume instead of how they consume it. Conservatives may focus on Fox News, and liberals may love MSNBC, but McHugh says that’s not as important as the fact that members of both ideologies are watching television. He says the mediums we use can be as influential as the content they provide.


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Arts & Culture
6:18 am
Tue May 14, 2013

Gullah Geechee Corridor Plan Gets Federal Blessing

Credit gullahgeecheecorridor.org
Restoration of a seashore farmer's lodge along the Gullah Geechee corridor.

Preservationists are welcoming federal approval of a management plan to preserve areas steeped in Gullah Geechee culture.  The U.S. Department of the Interior says the effort to promote cities and towns in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida is ready to be put into action.

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Arts & Culture
2:50 pm
Mon May 13, 2013

Mad Men Mondays: Duke's Hartman Center Explores Episode 7

This is a weekly column written by the Hartman Center, part of Duke University's Rubenstein Library that studies advertising history. Each Monday they dig through their archive to find ads for items referenced in the latest Mad Men episode. Here is this week's column (originally posted on their blog) written by Jacqueline Wachholz and the Hartman Center.

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The State Of Things
11:56 am
Mon May 13, 2013

Duke Professor Carries On Tradition Of Black Radical Poetry

Credit http://english.duke.edu / Duke University
Fred Moten

Fred Moten grew up in a home and in a time where revolution was not portrayed as a romantic dream for the future, but a vital necessity for survival. He was raised in Las Vegas in the late '60s and '70s by a family who understood the need for change.

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