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Category: Culture

  • Why Do We Resist New Music After the 30s?
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    Why Do We Resist New Music After the 30s?

    If you ask someone in their 30s (and beyond) about the trending top musicians and their greatest hits, chances are, there will be blank stares. If you are already murmuring, “I thought it was just me!”, industrial surveys have suggested that musical paralysis can hit in the early 30s, and a 2023 study has found

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  • Do More Choices Actually Make Us Less Free?
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    Do More Choices Actually Make Us Less Free?

    In 1975, the average American supermarket carried around 9,000 products. By 2008, that number had swelled to nearly 47,000, according to the Food Marketing Institute’s annual survey. Walk into a grocery store today, and you’ll face an entire wall of cereal options—organic, gluten-free, low-sugar, protein-enhanced… And you may be able to find 15 varieties of toothpaste

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  • Lost in Translation: When Words Journey Across Cultures
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    Lost in Translation: When Words Journey Across Cultures

    The story has become marketing legend: In the 1970s, American automaker Chevrolet proudly marketed the Nova across Latin America, only to have sales lag because “No va” means “it doesn’t go” in Spanish. The tale, however good, is largely a myth. The Nova actually did sell briskly in Mexico and Venezuela, even running ahead of

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