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Thought of the day: could there be an equilibrium of personality types?

Paul Frijters
April 19, 2018
Suppose you buy the idea popular in psychology that there are stable personality types largely formed in childhood and that the population has relatively stable...
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The Death of Australian Children’s Broadcast Television Programming: by Patricia Edgar

Nicholas Gruen
April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
The Director-General of the BBC has now conceded there is a crisis, with young people spending more time viewing Netflix and YouTube than they do...
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Spanish Film Festival

Nicholas Gruen
April 19, 2018
Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks Kiki, Love to Love (Opening Night) Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love. Paco and...

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