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  • Could You Pass Thomas Edison’s Hiring Test? Probably Not.

    Could You Pass Thomas Edison’s Hiring Test? Probably Not.0

    The other day I stumbled across an exam compiled by the famous inventor Thomas Edison. The exam consisted of 146 questions and was used by Edison to screen applicants for executive positions in his laboratory. I began looking through the questions, and to my dismay, realized that I would have fared quite badly had I

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  • Could You Pass New York’s Common Core Algebra Test?

    Could You Pass New York’s Common Core Algebra Test?0

      Concerned that students were coming to college ill-prepared, the New York Board of Regents made the state’s algebra test harder, and aligned it with the Common Core.     The percentage of students who passed dropped from 72 percent to 63 percent.    At the same time, the minimum passing score is expected to

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  • Could This Assassination Be the Beginning of World War 3?

    Could This Assassination Be the Beginning of World War 3?0

    Today’s assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, is already drawing some ominous comparisons.   Karlov was gunned down on Monday evening in Turkey’s capital of Ankara as he delivered a speech at an art exhibit. In the video of the attack, the shooter, off-duty police officer Mevlüt Mert Altintas, 22, could be heard

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  • Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?

    Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?4

    The pageantry of the Olympic Games are diverting attention from a question which must keep members of the International Olympic Committee awake at night: will the modern Games survive? “If we don’t get young people playing sport, we won’t be here for very much longer,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a press conference last week. “We have

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  • Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?

    Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?0

    Today, CNN is televising a “climate crisis town hall” for Democratic presidential candidates. Meanwhile, Hurricane Dorian, after tearing through the Bahamas, is menacing Florida and the East Coast. The candidates will surely point to the hurricane as they call for drastic measures against climate change. Tweeting about Dorian, Bernie Sanders has already offered his own

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  • Could the Civil War Have Been Avoided?

    Could the Civil War Have Been Avoided?0

    Donald Trump is taking heat from the media on his ramblings about whether a leader such as Andrew Jackson could have crafted a compromise to avoid the 620,000 deaths in the Civil War. The general view seems to be that Trump is crazy for questioning the inevitability and justness of the slaughter. Of course, everyone knows that had

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