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Bridging the Gap: Gretchen Skogerson's Strange Play

Zac Hill | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Social Media, Hurricane Ivan, Film, Video, Whitney Biennial, Zac Hill, Art, Media, The Intimacy Gap, Gretchen Skogerson, Arts News
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The idea is simple enough: it's a series of interconnected vignettes that explore how -- as individuals in society -- we are simultaneously isolated and drawn together by our dependence on communication technology.

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The Intimacy Gap

Zac Hill | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Timothy Ferriss, Aol, Social Networking, Gchat, Alison Krauss, Twitter, Girl Talk, Facebook, Social Media, Intimacy, Google+, Malaysia, Robert Plant, Zac Hill, Mark Zuckerberg, Communication, Media News
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"Send Private messages to people by only sharing your post with them, disable reshare" --Google+ "CheatSheet" -- "Please read my letter // and prom...

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'Winning' the Higher Education Game

Zac Hill | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Peter Thiel, Gamification, Law School, Legal Education, Paul Campos, Annie Lowrey, Higher Education Bubble, Game Design, Sam Glover, Jesse Schell, Matt Leichter, Jane McGonigal, Law, College, David Segal, Zac Hill, Brenda Brathwaite, Gaming, Higher Education, College Debt, College News
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Clearly, the goal of the higher education system is not for everyone in America to get a JD or an MD or a Ph.D. But if you looked from a game design perspective, you'd very much think that it is.

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Being Cool With Having Stuff: At-Least-Potentially Guilt-Free Super Bowl Cruising

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Bay Packers, Chuck Klosterman, Football, Cruise, Indonesia, Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers, Courtney Love, Nirvana, Lexus, Zac Hill, Kurt Cobain, Aaron Rodgers, Super Bowl, Travel News
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I have yet to encounter a single American crew member. In what can only be described as a Shyamalanian flash of revelation, I realized earlier this morning that this disconnect did not bother me.

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Michael Vick, Black Swan, and David Foster Wallace: An Act in Three Acts

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, Tchaikovsky, The Wrestler, Football, Mickey Rourke, Ballet, David Foster Wallace, Self-Mutilation, Black Swan, Film, Vincent Cassel, Darren Aronofsky, S.L.Price, Zac Hill, Michael Vick, Robert Ellis Gordon, Movies, Entertainment News
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And what do we do with the worst parts of ourselves? We lose them. And we live.

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Comedy at the Center: Why Jon Stewart Is Actually For Real

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Frances Martel, Politics, David Foster Wallace, Robert Reich, Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, The Rally to Restore Sanity, Zac Hill, Glenn Beck, Media, The Daily Show, Bill O'Reilly, Journalism, Raj Patel, Media News
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This past weekend, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 Americans gathered on the National Mall for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Res...

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Reforming the Rakyat

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tricia Yeoh, Bukit Gantang, Pakatan Rakyat, Selangor, Federalism, Official Secrets Act, Malaysia, Khalid Ibrahim, Zac Hill, Internal Security Act, World News
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The publication of a single book doesn't guarantee lasting change, of course. But it does demonstrate -- and this is a great leap forward -- that the government is willing to try.

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Searching for Bobby Kennedy: Health Care and the Moral Imperative

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fiction, Magical Realism, Leonard Cohen, Politics, Health Care, Zac Hill, Historical Fiction, Books, Robert Ellis Gordon, Barack Obama, Moral Imperative, Robert F. Kennedy, Illness, Healthcare, Books News
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What Robert understood is that despite being more media-saturated than at any other time in history, our dialogue remains silent with regard to the moral imperatives those policies entail.

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Arrested for Possession of an Unlit Candle

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patriot Act, Malaysia, Malaysia Prime Minister, USA Patriot Act, Internal Security Act, Zac Hill, Tshiung Han See, World News
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Thirty-seven people were arrested without cause on the fiftieth anniversary of Malaysia's Internal Security Act--an Act that, like the Patriot Act here in the US, allows for arrest and detention without trial.

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Freedom of Information Comes to Malaysia

Zac Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malaysia, Free Press, Freedom of Information, Zac Hill, Gayathry Venkiteswaran, Selangor, World News
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The Pakatan Rakyat government of Selangor, Malaysia created history earlier this month by tabling the nation's first piece of Right to Information legislation in the State Assembly. But the bill has its flaws.

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