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  • How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People

    How Totalitarians Force Confessions From Innocent People0

    I recently re-read George Orwell’s anti-Soviet fable Animal Farm for the first time since high school, and I found myself at a loss to explain one of the book’s darkest scenes to the student I was tutoring. In this scene, Napoleon (Orwell’s stand-in for Stalin) consolidates his power over Animal Farm (i.e. the Soviet Union)

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  • How Today’s Students Can Become Great Writers by Using Thomas Jefferson’s Methods

    How Today’s Students Can Become Great Writers by Using Thomas Jefferson’s Methods3

    During my high school years, a number of my friends were homeschooled kids who belonged to a particular accrediting organization. This organization required each student to write an annual research paper, the length of which corresponded to their grade (i.e. a 10th grade student was required to turn in 10 pages). Over the years, I

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  • How to Win Arguments When You Haven’t a Leg to Stand On

    How to Win Arguments When You Haven’t a Leg to Stand On0

    A number of studies have shown links between depression and internet use. This being the case, who better than the 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) to be named as the official philosopher of the internet? For thorough-going gloom, it is hard to beat Schopenhauer. “Life is an unpleasant business,” he said as a young

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  • How to Vote for President When You Don’t Like the Candidates

    How to Vote for President When You Don’t Like the Candidates0

    How do voters select a candidate when no one they like is on the ballot? Behavioral scientists have studied decision-making – including voting – for decades. However, researchers usually give respondents at least one appealing option to choose from. This led us to wonder: What do voters do when they consider all of the options

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  • How to Turn a Lemonade Stand Into a Multi-Million Dollar Operation

    How to Turn a Lemonade Stand Into a Multi-Million Dollar Operation0

    • February 17, 2020

    When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old, she received an old cookbook from her grandmother. It was tattered and the covering was falling off, but the recipes were still intact. Thumbing through the pages, she stumbled on a mixture for flaxseed lemonade. “We tried making it, and it tasted really good,” Mikaila recalled in an

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  • How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut

    How to Transform a Life Stuck in a Rut0

    Has a New Year’s resolution ever made a permanent difference in your life? Maybe you stuck with it for the first week of the year. But dang it, January is cold. Some mornings it’s hard to just get out of your warm bed, let alone trudge to the gym, write a blog post, or meditate

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