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  • How the Education System Destroys Social Networks

    How the Education System Destroys Social Networks0

    • March 17, 2015

    I was at a restaurant for lunch and had time to visit with the waitress, who turns out to be a college graduate from a good institution. She has a degree in European languages. Here she is waiting tables with nondegreed people, some five years her junior, some 10 years her elder. She is making

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  • How the Desire for ‘Moral Purity’ Divides Us

    How the Desire for ‘Moral Purity’ Divides Us0

    In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, the overwhelming response among progressives was “how in the world did this happen?” Those of us who study the rise of political and moral polarization in the United States, however, were less surprised.   Think of the people you choose to spend time with – your romantic partner,

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  • How the Declaration of Independence was Unoriginal

    How the Declaration of Independence was Unoriginal0

    The opening of the Declaration of Independence, the document that formally kicked off the American Colonies’ drive to establish an independent country from Great Britain, is a beloved document for most Americans. We should all know it by heart, but if one doesn’t, here it is: When in the Course of human events, it becomes

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  • How the Communist Party Complicates Research in China

    How the Communist Party Complicates Research in China0

    What is the coronavirus? How does it spread? Should I be worried? When a new virus surfaces, the unknowns loom big. When a new virus comes out of China, potentially clarifying information needs to be weighed and considered alongside the realities of practicing science and research there. I am a social scientist, specializing in psychological

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  • How the Clock Changed the World

    How the Clock Changed the World2

    When people reflect on how technology has changed our lives, they usually think about the car, the television, or the computer. But according to historian and philosopher Lewis Mumford, it’s really the invention of the mechanical clock that changed everything. In his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization, Mumford laid out a fascinating argument why “the

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  • How the Church of Climate Change Resembles a (Deadly) Cult

    How the Church of Climate Change Resembles a (Deadly) Cult0

    Climate change can kill. Not just furnace-like summer heat with its killer bushfires, not killer floods sweeping away livestock, houses and motorists, not killer cyclones lifting roofs, toppling trees, and smashing power lines. But also felo de se, self-slaughter, shuffling off this mortal coil. Remember 104-year-old David Goodall, the Australian academic who travelled to Switzerland

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