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Anyone who has followed the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the avalanche of accusations of sexual assault that followed might have noticed a strange commonality. A surprising number accusations involved men allegedly masturbating in front of women or asking for the permission to do so. There of course was Louis C.K., who was accused of masturbating
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Last night, most of us went to the safety and comfort of our beds before drifting off to a night’s sleep. For some, this was the last conscious action before an episode of sleepwalking. Recent research from Stanford University shows that up to 4 per cent of adults might have had such an experience. In
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Why is it that, upon finishing college and entering the workforce, the vast majority of people seem to just stop learning? Is education a period of your life to be gotten over with, a burden that, once borne, is to be set aside for better things? This certainly seems to be the way we think
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve puzzled about why people become communists. I have no doubt about why someone would stop being one. After all, we have a century of evidence of the murder, famine, and general destruction caused by the idea. Ignoring all this takes a special kind of willful blindness to
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Kids are hard work. Anyone who has spent even a small amount of time around children knows this. So it’s no surprise that parents are eager to get away and spend some time by themselves. Yet we also have this modern phenomenon of parents who want to keep their kids with them, even while doing
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Intergenerational feuding seems to be inherent to human nature. Older people complain about “kids these days.” Younger people, in turn, believe their elders don’t grasp the realities of modern life. A recent study traced the earliest recorded complaint about the younger generation’s supposed laziness and lack of respect to the year 624 BC. The contemporary iteration of
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