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  • Is a Lack of Hands-on Work Making Us Angry?

    Is a Lack of Hands-on Work Making Us Angry?0

    I recently stumbled upon an interesting tidbit out of Green Bay. According to local news station WBAY, a number of inmates at a nearby prison have taken up a new hobby: knitting. I initially raised my eyebrows over this piece of information, but then I looked into the issue more closely. The inmates’ knitting efforts

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  • Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?

    Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?0

    Walking back from a logic course in college, a friend asked me if I had heard of the “Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?” debate raging on reddit. “No,” I told him, “what a silly thing for people to waste their time on.” Curiosity got the best of me, however, and I checked out the

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  • Is a Happy Marriage Just a Matter of Genes?

    Is a Happy Marriage Just a Matter of Genes?0

    What’s the secret of a happy and enduring marriage? According to a team from the Yale School of Public Health, it could be the genes of husband and wife. In a paper published last week in the journal PLOS One, it reported that when at least one partner had a genetic variation within the oxytocin

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  • Is A Critical Thinking Gap Driving Income Inequality?

    Is A Critical Thinking Gap Driving Income Inequality?0

    There is an unrelenting tide of new information that is being pushed by an ever increasing set of sources. Along with this crush of data is the certainty that much of it is inaccurate or a misrepresentation. With that understanding it is more important than ever that citizens are critical thinkers to sort out the

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  • Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?

    Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?0

    Today, the four premier leaders of The Quad—the U.S., Australia, India, and Japan—conduct their first summit, by teleconference. The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is an informal strategy forum of the major Indo-Pacific democracies that some wish to see evolve into an Asian NATO to contain China, as NATO contained the Soviet Union for 40

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  • Is a ‘Nation Without Borders’ an Oxymoron?

    Is a ‘Nation Without Borders’ an Oxymoron?0

    Democrats have had a tough few years. Following the 2016 elections, as Vox has pointed out, Republicans achieved a political dominance not seen since the Civil War era. Not only did the GOP win the presidency while holding the House and Senate, it held total control in 24 states (compared to seven states for Democrats)

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