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  • How do we spend our time?

    How do we spend our time?0

    • August 23, 2016

    Over at Ted.com, we learn that as a planet we spend 3 billion hours a week playing video games. The article further reports that: “The average young person racks up 10,000 hours of gaming by the age of 21 — or 24 hours less than they spend in a classroom for all of middle and

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  • How Do We Solve the West’s Fertility Crisis?

    How Do We Solve the West’s Fertility Crisis?13

    My wife and I recently found out that baby number two is on the way, and we couldn’t be more delighted. Parenting is without doubt the most rewarding adventure we have ever embarked upon. All this being true, the prospect of another baby has made me think long and hard about our financial position over

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  • How Do U.S. Reading Habits Compare to the Rest of the World?

    How Do U.S. Reading Habits Compare to the Rest of the World?0

    Scandinavia is made up of the top 5 most literate countries in the world. (Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden, respectively.) All 7 Harry Potter books are on the Top 21 Best Selling Books Worldwide. (By millions of copies sold.) When it comes to the most hours read per week, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines,

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  • How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be so Long?

    How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be so Long?0

    Four hundred and thirty-two days prior to the election and 158 days before the Iowa caucus, millions of Americans will tune in for the second round of Democratic debates. If this seems like a long time to contemplate the candidates, it is. By comparison, Canadian election campaigns average just 50 days. In France, candidates have

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  • How Did Celibacy Become Mandatory for Priests?

    How Did Celibacy Become Mandatory for Priests?0

    Priestly celibacy, or rather the lack of it, is in the news. There have been allegations of sex orgies, prostitution and pornography against Catholic clerics in Italy. On March 8, Pope Francis suggested, in an interview with a German newspaper, Die Zeit, that the Catholic Church should discuss the tradition of celibacy in light of

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  • How Did Ancient Humans Interpret Eclipses?

    How Did Ancient Humans Interpret Eclipses?0

    For the vast majority of history, people freaked out about eclipses. Ancient peoples in particular often could not rationally explain eclipses. Unsurprisingly, it was not uncommon to say the eerie, celestial phenomena foretold doom: floods, pestilence and famine. The earliest record of an eclipse we have comes from clay tablets unearthed from the ancient Sumerian

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