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Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime

Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime What if the classic board game had better rules for simulating capitalism? March 3, 2018 at 03:22PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2I2anym

Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816


Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816
It is 200 years since "The Year Without a Summer," when a sun-obscuring volcanic ash cloud caused temperatures to plummet the world over. Gillen D’Arcy Wood looks at the humanitarian crisis triggered by the unusual weather, and how it offers an alternative lens through which to read Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein," a book begun in its midst.

June 22, 2016 at 12:37PM
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