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  • Yearning for Good, Old-Fashioned Paganism

    Yearning for Good, Old-Fashioned Paganism0

    Although I confess that I’m a Christian, I pine sometimes for some good old fashioned paganism. Not the nonsense of the neo-pagans who have about as much in common with the real McCoy as a divorcee has with a virgin (to employ C. S. Lewis’ slap-in-the-face analogy), or, to move from the shockingly sublime to

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  • Year-Round Sports: Growing Old and Wearing Thin?

    Year-Round Sports: Growing Old and Wearing Thin?0

    Not long ago, I was walking through a parking lot hurriedly looking for my car so as to get away from the drizzling rain. Climbing in and catching my breath, I glanced up at the adjacent field in which a soccer game was taking place. It was ringed with dedicated parents huddled under umbrellas, probably

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  • Yanny or Laurel? It’s Your Brain Not Your Ears That Decides

    Yanny or Laurel? It’s Your Brain Not Your Ears That Decides0

    As a speech scientist, I never thought I’d see so much excitement on social media about one tiny little word. — Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018 The clip, which went viral after being posted on Reddit, is polarizing listeners who hear a computer voice say either “Laurel” or “Yanny.” @AlexWelke tweeted, “This is the

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  • Yale Study: German COVID Death Risk Equivalent to Driving Nine Miles Per Day

    Yale Study: German COVID Death Risk Equivalent to Driving Nine Miles Per Day0

    More than 120,000 people have died worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic as of April 14, according to official statistics, and nearly two million have been infected worldwide. Yet a new white paper published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and BMJ suggests the fatality risk of COVID-19 may not be as high as previously believed. Analyzing data

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  • Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets

    Yale Students Petition to ‘Abolish’ Major English Poets0

    The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student

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  • Yale Student Explains Why It’s Necessary to Encourage Two-Parent Families

    Yale Student Explains Why It’s Necessary to Encourage Two-Parent Families1

    It’s graduation season and everyone is talking about success and how best to achieve it. This, of course, includes encouraging those who are victims of tragic circumstances to overcome their difficult pasts. One student who has done just that is Rob Henderson, a 2018 graduate of Yale University. Henderson’s story, which he explains in the

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