In Roman mythology, the god Janus is depicted with two faces – one facing forward, the other looking back. Equipped to gaze both into the future and the past, Janus was the patron saint of transitions: a symbol of the tension between two opposing states and an allegory for the distance that separates two points in time.
On October 1, 1939 the German Wehrmacht’s advance reached the city of Warsaw, Poland. Over the following months, the Jewish population of Warsaw and the surrounding areas would be forced into a small section of the city dubbed the “Jüdischer wohnbezirk” or “the Jewish quarter,” the Warsaw ghetto.
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Crime Pays
Mexico is headed down a dark path as violence intensifies, corruption worsens, and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow.
- Mónica López
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- 21 Jan 2009
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- 17 comments
Photo: Diego Rivera, Courtesy Museo Nacional de Arte. Mexico.
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Big in Japan
The popularity of a bleak, 20th-century novel points to tectonic shifts beneath the surface of Japanese society. (Photo by Yoshinori Kon)
- Leo Lewis
- Roland Kelts
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- 09 Dec 2008
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- 17 comments
Photo: "Zombie Alone" by Yoshinori Kon
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Industrial Childbirth
"Revisiting my son's birth has made me angry."
- Shonagh Strachan
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- 15 Oct 2008
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- 141 comments
My experience of childbirth was not an unusually traumatic one. In medical parlance I had an NVD: a Normal Vaginal Delivery. The midwives were pleasant. I was given an epidural. I was admitted to hospital at 2pm and delivered a healthy baby boy ( 8lb 7oz ) eleven hours later. This is the essential information, is it not? This is the only kind of information that we ever really hear about other women’s experiences with childbirth.
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Virtual Morality
As videogames create better, more immersive models of reality: are we free to do anything we want in a virtual world, or are some things inherently wrong?
- Andrew Tuplin
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- 11 Oct 2008
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- 100 comments
Technology is dragging morality into some deep and murky philosophical waters, forcing us to reexamine our understanding of it as many of us choose to become actors in virtual worlds. By putting choice and consequence in closed virtual worlds where we can kill without harming others or facing punishment ourselves, we are forced to reconsider the case for moral behavior.
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Quit Facebook
The decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as a result of wanting to enhance my profile.
- Carmen Joy King
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- 03 Oct 2008
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- 114 comments
In march, at the peak of Facebook popularity, I quit. with four swift clicks of the mouse, I canceled my account. Gone was the entire online persona I had created for myself – profile pictures, interests and activities, work history, friends acquired – all carefully thought out to showcase to the world the very best version of me, all now deleted.
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