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1. Guide to Zombies - Podcast - Part IV: Zombies & Consumerism

   University of Alabama professor Sean Hoade discusses the history of zombies in film and the evolution of the genre over the course of the 20th Century.

   http://filmnerds.com/zombies_part4_podcast.htm

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2. Romanticism 19: Thomas de Quincey

   A class taught by Tim Morton at UC Davis, May 25, 2012

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3. Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice, on TED.com

   Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

   http://blog.ted.com/2008/08/archive_barry_s.php

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