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Arts and Letters Daily

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  • Art

Points of View

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • September 1, 2011
“We are watching 18 screens showing high-definition images captured by nine cameras. Each camera was set at a different angle, and many were set at different exposures. In some cases,…
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“Decision Fatigue”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • August 23, 2011
The exhaustion of decision-making is now scientifically validated. This essay looks at how decision fatigue, or “ego depletion,” manifests, in examining settings such as the courtroom, the grocery store, and…
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  • Politics

Ideas of a Decade

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • August 9, 2011
A special issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, “An Era in Ideas,” goes under the surface of words like “death” and “terrorism” that have entered the public imagination since…
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E.B. White and his Animals

  • Sam Riley
  • June 9, 2011
E.B. White’s anthropomorphisms became childhood story staples, but they were also were a method of expressing himself to his family, and furthermore, significant in the evolution of nature writing. This…
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Lying Artists

  • Sam Riley
  • June 2, 2011
Artists and certain brain damage patients have overlapping tendencies—lying or “chronic confabulation,” in neuroscience vernacular. The difference is in that writers fabricate experiences and consciously control their associations whereas people…
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