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  • How YouTube AutoPlay Becomes Your Child’s Worst Nightmare

    How YouTube AutoPlay Becomes Your Child’s Worst Nightmare0

    I myself am not yet a parent, but I can understand why parents often get overwhelmed. Far be it from me to judge any parents who feel the need to hand their kids the iPhone for a few minutes now and then. But please, keep your small children away from YouTube. Sure, they’ll probably start

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  • How Your New Devices Can Spy on Your Every Move

    How Your New Devices Can Spy on Your Every Move0

    We now have dozens of smart devices in our houses and even on our bodies. They improve our lives in so many ways – from lowering energy consumption in our homes to egging us on to be active. But these smart devices respond to whatever commands they are given: we’ve had security experts demonstrate how cars can be hijacked

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  • How Your Name Can Predict How You’ll Vote

    How Your Name Can Predict How You’ll Vote0

    I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed a decided absence of political yard signs in my neighborhood this election season. Such an occurrence may be the result of general disinterest in the two main candidates… or maybe my neighbors have suddenly been bit by the Minnesota Nice bug, which requires people to keep their

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  • How You Can Help ‘Intellectual Takeout’ Restore the Culture

    How You Can Help ‘Intellectual Takeout’ Restore the Culture0

    When my third grandchild was recently born, I was wonderfully reminded why I am involved with Intellectual Takeout as the leader of its parent organization, the Charlemagne Institute: Both these things point to the things that really matter in life. Our articles are signposts toward truth. When reading an article on education, a reader might

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  • How Would Our Ancestors View the 21st Century?

    How Would Our Ancestors View the 21st Century?1

    • August 21, 2018

    What is the worst thing about living near an open sewer? It is not that you sicken at the stench of it every time you leave your front door. It is that the noisome vapors are so pervasive, and you have lived with them so long, you no longer notice it. What is the worst

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  • How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone?

    How Would Dostoevsky Have Responded to the Smartphone?0

    “I don’t know how to make friends without my phone,” a teenager told me last summer when I found myself enforcing a policy banning screens at a student seminar I was helping with. I was a little surprised by this line of reasoning, but I’ve encountered it more than a few times since from teens

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