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Food

• Video: Why Not Eat Insects?
• Video: The Global Food Waste Scandal
• Audio: "Genetically-engineered yeast is the future of flavor" by Gastropod
• "Vermont's Farm to Ballet Project Shines the Spotlight on Conservation" by Amy Overstreet

Literacy Narrative

• Video: Language as a Window to Human Nature
• Video: The Danger of a Single Story
• Video: John Green on Paper Towns and Why Learning is Awesome
• "The Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer" by Sarah Allen
• "Be an Inspiration, Not an Impostor" by Ben Cotton
• "Multiple Intelligences" by Fred Mednick

Culture

• "A South African Storm" by Allison Howard
• "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner
• "Demanding Equal Political Voice...And Accepting Nothing Less: The Quest for Latino Political Inclusion" by Louis DeSipio
• Audio: "Psychology’s unhealthy obsession with the WEIRDest people in the world" by David McRaney

Zombies

• "The Zombie as Barometer of Capitalist Anxiety" by D.T. Robb
• "Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn't stand a chance" by David Mizejewski

Nature & Conservation

• "Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Knowledge" by Herman Daly
• "Plain Geology" by George Otis Smith
• "Which water technology will save California from its long, dry death?" By Kiki Sanford

Technology

• "That time the Internet sent a SWAT team to my mom's house" by Caroline Sinders
• "The Relationship Between Cell Phone Use and Academic Performance in a Sample of U.S. College Students" by Andrew Lepp, Jacob E. Barkley, and Aryn C. Karpinski
• "Call to All Open Source Communities: Emphasize Inclusion" by Meg Ford
• "Piracy Gave Me A Future" by Daniel Starkey

Consumer Debt

• "The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt" by Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmidt
• "On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt" by Paul Kiel and Mitchell Hartman
• "The Payday Playbook: How High Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal" by Paul Kiel
• "Whack-a-Mole: How Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down" by Paul Kiel
• "How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans" by Paul Kiel
• "To Dodge Law, High-Cost Lender Offers Cash for Free" by Paul Kiel
• "When Lenders Sue, Quick Cash Can Turn Into a Lifetime of Debt" by Paul Kiel

Health Care

• “'Death Is Part of the Job' in Long-Term Care Homes" by Jill Marcella and Mary Lou Kelley
• "On Vaccination Against Smallpox" by Edward Anthony Jenner
• "Back to the Future: Making House Calls for Better Care, Reduced Costs" by K. Eric De Jonge
• "A Legacy for Lewis: Improving Patient Safety" by Helen Haskell
• "Living with FASDs: In Taylor's Own Words" by the Centers for Disease Control
• "Can We Use Social Media to Support Content Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments in Medical Product Development?" by Margaret Rothman, et al

Politics

• "Millionaire Candidates" by Carl Schurz
• "Why Aren't Governments as Transparent as They Could Be?" by Ryan Thornburg
• "Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: Apocalyspo" by Frederick Moody

Wikipedia

• "What I Learned While Editing Wikipedia" by Noopur Raval
• Video: Jimmy Wales and the Origin of Wikipedia
• "Wikipedia Is Good for You!?" by James Purdy

Literature

• "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain
• "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
• "On the Gull's Road" by Willa Cather
• "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
• "The Lockless Door" by Robert Frost
• "The Open Window" by Saki
• "Two Ways of Seeing A River" by Mark Twain
• "The School Days of an Indian Girl" by Zitkala-Sa
• "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link