150 Quotes by Annalee Newitz


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    Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

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    Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.

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    People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

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    The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

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    Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

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    As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.

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    A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.

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    'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

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