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  • Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent

    Dilemmas of the 21st-Century American Parent0

    Standing in the breeze on a warm spring day at the end of another school year, I listen as a pre-Kindergarten child receives a prize at the elementary school’s yearly awards ceremony. Inwardly, I cringe as I hear “ . . . and she wants to be a YouTuber when she grows up.” My attention

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  • Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale

    Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale1

    A communications group at Yale University has put out a video (see below) that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams poking fun at climate scientists and their misplaced confidence in models. The video is full of impressive-looking scientists talking about charts and data and whatnot. It probably cost a

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  • Digital Life: A New Kind of Existence

    Digital Life: A New Kind of Existence0

    The average American spends over seven hours daily on screens. That means most of us live about half our waking hours inside a digital vortex. Engagement with the digital world is no longer an occasional pastime, an interruption in an otherwise analog existence. For many, it’s not a tool, but a way of life since vast portions

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  • Different Parties, Different Planets

    Different Parties, Different Planets0

    When people try to explain why the United States is so politically polarized now, they frequently refer to the concept of “echo chambers.” That’s the idea that people on social media interact only with like-minded people, reinforcing each other’s beliefs. When people don’t encounter competing ideas, the argument goes, they become less willing to cooperate

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  • Differences in Outcome Do Not Imply Discrimination

    Differences in Outcome Do Not Imply Discrimination0

    People often claim that differences in outcomes between two racial or ethnic groups are proof of discrimination. For example, Jews account for just 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but they make up over 20 percent of all Nobel Prize laureates. Clearly, the argument goes, there must be some conspiracy afoot. The same line of

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  • Did You Know a Famous Philosopher Just Died?

    Did You Know a Famous Philosopher Just Died?8

    Had you been a Greek or an educated Roman, you would have known the names of certain philosophers. Any Greek would have known of Socrates, Plato or Aristotle, and maybe even have been able to tell you a few of their important ideas. But if you asked a person on the street today to name

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