Hi, I’m the St Joe’s basement doorstop. Let me start your three-day weekend by wrapping my chain around your ankle, tossing you into the mud, and breaking your phone.

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Jean M. Twenge: "Nearly all phone activities are linked to less happiness, and nearly all non-phone activities are linked to more happiness."

What Do Happy Teens Do? Hint: It doesn’t involve their phones.

I was surprised to see how closely happiness maps to non-phone activities, and unhappiness maps to phone-related activities. The author notes that this is a study of correlation, not causation. When I went through moody phases as a teen, I wrote, or worked, or did theater, or church youth group activities. When I was busy,…

Anonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the second week.

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Full Bloom opens tonight.

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Social Media Companies Aren’t Liberal or Conservative. They’re capitalist.

Facebook cares more about scalability—that is, the ability to serve billions of users with a minimum of human labor—than it does about making the right call in every case. It would rather get lots of things wrong, but do it with a veneer of consistency and neutrality, than entertain nuance or exercise human judgment. (It…

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The other day I did a socialize with some of my Humanities colleagues. (I am proud of myself.)

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Russian trolls ‘spreading discord’ over vaccine safety online

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Full Bloom opens next weekend. Tickets 724-527-5777.

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14% of Americans [say that they] have changed their mind about an issue because of something they saw on social media

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Picture of an actor posing as Shakespeare.

The case for puns as the most elevated display of wit

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West Side Story Maria Montage

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Carolyn as Maria in West Side Story

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