Entertainment and Culture Holiday Gift Guide 2008 | Splash ...

Our Gift Guide Team has put together a list of gift ideas for the holiday season.

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Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient — NEJM

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient.

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Van Gogh's Night Visions | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

For Vincent Van Gogh, fantasy and reality merged after dark in some of his most enduring paintings, as a new exhibition reminds us.

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The Top 10 Worst Pop Culture Bits Of the Year

Everyone's doing Top 10 Lists this time of year! About movies and TV and stuff! So I figured I should too. But just one list, that encompasses everything.

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Culture and Perception | Simon's blog

In a lively account published in Trends In Cognitive Sciences (see here), Nisbett and Miyamoto (2005) made the case for " cultural " influences on perception. The crux of the argument is this : visual perception


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Spitting Game: A film about "hook up" culture - Feministing

Like you say, Jessica, the problem with the "hook-up culture " is primarily a problem of alcohol abuse.

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