- TIL in the 18th century many prominent voices were concerned by an 'epidemic' affecting young people whereby they were spending too much time reading books. It was diagnosed as 'a dangerous disease' called 'reading rage, reading fever, reading mania or reading lust.' http://www.historytoday.com/frank-furedi/media%E2%80%99s-first-moral-panic 6 comments books
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- Are we together or are we alone? - The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/17/11254304/avegant-glyph-review-headset-screen-face 0 comments
- Moral panic: Japanese girls risk fingerprint theft by making peace-signs in photographs | Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/01/12/moral-panic-japanese-girls-ri.html 0 comments
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