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Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

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Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The novel would become a bestseller largely due to its lascivious imagery and terrifying plotline that fed into every anxiety over morality, science, and public health, much less kick off a century and a quarter of vampire films.

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Part Two: Capturing the Counterculture

Capturing the Counterculture

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What record labels achieved manually in hip-hop—identifying, redirecting, and commodifying authentic expression—would become the template for digital control. Just as executives learned to transform street culture into profitable products, algorithms would soon automate this process at global scale.

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Health and Health Care: A Common Pool Resource?

Health and Health Care: A Common Pool Resource?

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Could this be the impetus to establish a vertically and horizontally integrated Community of Practice for Health Care Professionals, providing them with the tools for self-organization and self-governance Ostrom noted were the hallmarks of successful management of Common Pool Resources?

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H-1B Visas: A Lesson from Canada

H-1B Visas: A Lesson from Canada

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“Temporary” programs in Canada and America rarely benefit their existing populaces. Here’s hoping the incoming Trump administration takes heed of Canada’s abject failure to rein in its permanent “temporary” population and reins in the policies that impoverish the native citizenry.

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