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Martin Cothran

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  • The Lost Scrolls Lying at Our Feet

    The Lost Scrolls Lying at Our Feet0

    In 79 A.D., the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in eastern Italy covered nearby towns in ash and completely buried many of them. One of the towns that was buried in the eruption was Herculaneum, which at the time was a popular vacation spot for wealthy Romans. According to some historical accounts, Julius Caesar’s father-in-law,

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  • Was Stephen Hawking Really Just a Computer?

    Was Stephen Hawking Really Just a Computer?1

    Stephen Hawking once pronounced that he thought he was little more than a computer and that, because of this, he was unafraid to die. “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for

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  • Prominent Magazine Ranks America as a ‘Flawed Democracy’

    Prominent Magazine Ranks America as a ‘Flawed Democracy’0

    The Economist magazine recently issued a study purporting to compare countries on the basis of how democratic they are. The U.S. ended up ranked as a “flawed democracy.” In one sense this is absolutely true. As great as America is, it will always be flawed, as will any other country in which human beings run

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  • The 5 Best Books on Education

    The 5 Best Books on Education0

    There are a lot of books on education, but few that are very good. Here are five books that cut to the chase of what education is and how it should be done: 1) Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger. Jaeger was a German scholar writing in the early to mid-20th century. He

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