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August 26, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Never Alone was produced as a kind of interactive public service announcement and fundraiser by Anchorage, Alaska’s Cook Inlet Tribal Council. The video game, based on a traditional Iñupiat tale called “Kunuuksaayuka,” stars a young Iñupiat girl who must overcome challenges to advance through the story of her culture, and to save her people from a blizzard set […]

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May 14, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Tortured artists and sappy songwriters have long sensed that loneliness is not such a good thing, but now we know for a fact that it is detrimental to your mental and physical well-being. A growing body of research shows that feelings of emotional isolation can literally both make people ill and hasten death. Contrary to what […]

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April 29, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Woe to the G train commuters. Not only do they constantly suffer through soul-sucking delays and nearly keel over from sprinting to catch the short train mid-platform — they’re now considered the lepers of the dating world. DNAInfo published a hard-hitting feature on G train-sabotaged romances. From the heart-wrenching tales of several unlucky-in-love Brooklyn residents, the […]

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