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- Different Cultures Define Happiness Differently https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/07/happiest-country-definition/619441/ 14 comments
- How Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defined American cultural beliefs https://www.bookforum.com/culture/how-merriam-webster-s-dictionary-defined-american-cultural-beliefs-24536 6 comments
- What defines a great company culture? https://twitter.com/danrose999/status/1378393523213373440 168 comments
- The tools that define us - Building a tool culture http://www.cucumbertown.com/craft/the-tools-that-define-us-building-a-tool-culture/ 17 comments
- Sperm whales live in clans with distinctive cultures, much like those of humans. Clans were defined by variations in their vocalisations. Acting like human dialects, these enabled scientists to establish the existence of seven such clans in the Pacific Ocean – with a total of 300,000 sperm whales. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/10/sperm-whales-live-in-culturally-distinct-clans-research-finds 27 comments science
- ‘Your government doesn’t get to define who you “really” are’: Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin doubles down on crypto pseudonym culture https://fortune.com/2022/06/10/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-privacy-anonymity-pseudonyms-crypto-soulbound-tokens/ 49 comments cryptocurrency
- Defining engineering culture at a large studio https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/51421 8 comments gamedev
- Rick Scott pushes own GOP agenda as McConnell holds off — The first-term senator's plan includes a mix of longtime Republican positions as well as culture war politics that define many GOP voters in Trump’s wing of the party. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/rick-scott-gop-agenda-00010431 14 comments politics
- Scientists have for first time obtained stem cells from livestock that grow under chemically defined conditions—paving way for manufacturing cell cultured meat and breeding enhanced livestock. This can accelerate pace of genetic selection of livestock and cultured meat to creation of healthier foods https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/stem-cell-study-paves-way-for-manufacturing-cultured-meat 6 comments science
- GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead. Republican politicians and conservative commentators have new interests: Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, intense scrutiny of Meghan Markle and even Milo Yiannopoulos becoming 'ex-gay' https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/gop-struggles-to-define-biden-turns-to-culture-wars-instead-1.9606899 76 comments politics
- GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead https://apnews.com/article/2d2833016a4816eb42be3d7390ac1305 25 comments politics
- GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead https://abcnews.go.com/politics/wirestory/gop-struggles-define-biden-turns-culture-wars-76356428 7 comments politics
- GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-meghan-markle-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-dr-seuss-2d2833016a4816eb42be3d7390ac1305 71 comments politics
- On the "Math with Bad Drawings" blog: Defining 'Cat' Without the Cat. "[Mathematical culture tends] to define a new term in the abstract, draping it in high-minded language like purple garments ... A much better method: explore motivating examples, and *then* give definitions." https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021/01/04/defining-cat-without-the-cat/ 12 comments math
- [Q.Diggs] It was all good until I spoke up for my culture.. I’ve been told yall my life has always been bigger than football! If i let this game define who i am i’ve failed in life my momma always told me that! (PIC) https://twitter.com/qdiggs6/status/1266749331991904257?s=21 3 comments nfl
- Jibran Nasir: "Burns Road served as Karachi food street for decades. Several famous eateries demolished there defined Karachi's food culture and identity. The Govt must ensure alternate locations. Cities are more than just concrete structures. No one seems to understand that in Govt & SC" https://twitter.com/MJibranNasir/status/1066696712478228480 52 comments pakistan
- [Fedor] Tyronn Lue: 'Culture is not defined by wins and losses' http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2018/10/tyronn_lue_i_dont_think_you_de.html 38 comments nba
- The answer is a growing lack of trust in the institutions that once defined American culture. http://cuchimes.com/03/2017/trust-vacuum/ 3 comments politics
- Many defining human behaviors likely spread culturally, not genetically http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/evolution/ancient-cultural-exchanges-may-have-driven-modern-human-behaviors/?utm_medium=n/a&utm_campaign=nova_next&linkid=31021904 4 comments science
- Priebus says he'd prefer GOP nominee run against Clinton than Sanders: "I'd rather run against Hillary Clinton because she's defined, she's not liked, and in a popular cultural vote in America, that's a really important question, and she doesn't do well with that question" http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/politics/reince-priebus-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/index.html 46 comments politics
- The South Shall Not Rise Again: The North has the money and the culture, but the South has defined the limits of our politics. That may finally and blessedly be ending. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/24/the-history-of-the-unkillable-confederate-flag.html 348 comments politics
- "Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday [24 June 2014] that protecting gay rights is a defining mark of a civilized nation and must trump national cultures and social traditions." http://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/rice-protecting-gays-most-difficult-rights-issue-5575966.php 60 comments worldnews
- "For better or worse, gun ownership has come to symbolize a range of deeply felt ideas about culture and government authority. Making fun of people who view their firearms as emblems of liberty and traditional values(however they define those values)will neither change minds nor repeal legislation." http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/the-nra-wins-again/359760/#disqus_thread 109 comments politics
- "The range of Western beliefs that define intellectual and cultural property laws […] are not universal values that express the full range of human possibility, but particular, interested fictions emergent from a history of colonialism that his disempowered most of the peoples on this planet." http://www.yorku.ca/rcoombe/publications/coombe_properties_of_culture.pdf 18 comments freeculture
- Tahrir Square’s Gains Threatened by Egypt’s Military -- "A poisonous political culture has survived the revolution, and largely defines the approach of Egypt’s interim rulers." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/sunday/tahrir-squares-gains-threatened-by-egypts-interim-rulers.html 4 comments worldnews
- “Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture and so on. I’d stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.” -- Yale psychologist Paul Bloom http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/science/21peppers.html 5 comments reddit.com
- Beck Can’t - Or Won’t - Define the ‘White Culture’ He Says Obama Hates http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/09/28/beck-cant-or-wont-define-white-culture/ 36 comments politics
- Katie Couric Asks Glenn Beck to Define "White Culture" - 6 times http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/25/786487/-katie-couric-asks-glenn-beck-to-define-white-culture 7 comments reddit.com
- Beck Refuses To Define What He Meant By The Phrase "White Culture": "Ummmmm, I Don’t Know" http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/24/beck-white-culture/ 11 comments politics
- 20 Things that culturally define Australia http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2008/australia.html 6 comments reddit.com
- Dear free culture and free software activists, how would you define the free culture movement in as few words as possible? http://freedomdefined.org/ 4 comments freeculture