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  • How Art Breaks the Curse of the Familiar

    How Art Breaks the Curse of the Familiar6

    “Familiarity breeds contempt” runs the old adage, and contempt leads to ingratitude and unhappiness. What makes a husband impatient with his wife, whom he would never have dreamed of snapping at when they were first dating? Familiarity. What makes one’s work dull and draining? Familiarity. What makes us bored of our home, our family, our

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  • How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular

    How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular0

    Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, has no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from the rainforest that surrounds them, and they garden and hunt for their

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  • How Are People So Sure That Islam is a “Religion of Peace”?

    How Are People So Sure That Islam is a “Religion of Peace”?0

    • November 16, 2015

    With the horrific ISIS-led attacks in Paris, the debate has once again risen about whether Islam is a religion of peace or a religion that promotes violence.      People on both sides of the debate often express a moral certitude about their position. But really, is there any way to know with certainty?    

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  • How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.

    How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1

    When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or

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  • How Anne Sullivan Worked Her ‘Miracle’ with Helen Keller

    How Anne Sullivan Worked Her ‘Miracle’ with Helen Keller0

    Most of us know teaching pioneer Anne Sullivan from “The Miracle Worker,” a story based on the autobiography of Helen Keller that has been made into several Broadway plays and movies. The name of the story derives from Mark Twain, who declared Sullivan such; and it’s hard to disagree with Twain’s assessment. In 1887, Sullivan,

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  • How Animal Farm is Playing Out in the Democrat Party

    How Animal Farm is Playing Out in the Democrat Party0

    Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status. Navratilova had

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