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  • Why are so Many Millennials Emotionally Fragile?

    Why are so Many Millennials Emotionally Fragile?2

    Those of us who live in the northern hemisphere are well acquainted with snowflakes whose fragile beauty dissolves as soon as they land on solid ground. And now, from cry-ins, to test cancellations, to hotlines for women upset over “mansplaining”, the world seems to be overrun with snowflakes, poor millennials who have spent their lives

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  • Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students?

    Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students?2

    I posed this question on my Facebook page a few days ago: “Is there much/any social science on the phenomena of female teaches suddenly sleeping with students?” This was shortly after news broke that a 24-year-old Texas teacher was on the lam for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student who had also impregnated her, according

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  • Why Are So Many ‘Whiz Kids’ Homeschoolers?

    Why Are So Many ‘Whiz Kids’ Homeschoolers?0

    It seems like every graduation season has its stories of whiz kids. The kids who are so ambitious and so accomplished that they’re graduating from high school, and even college, before the normal time. One of the latest is 14-year-old Matthew McKenzie from Georgia, who received his high school diploma and associate degree the same

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  • Why Are so Few People Born on Christmas and Other Holidays?

    Why Are so Few People Born on Christmas and Other Holidays?0

    Christmas and New Year’s are days of celebration in many parts of the world when people gather with family and friends. One thing many typically don’t celebrate on those days is a birthday. That’s because Dec. 25 is the least popular day in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand to give birth. In England, Wales

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  • Why Are So Few Millennials Entrepreneurs?

    Why Are So Few Millennials Entrepreneurs?0

    There’s a popular trope right now that a ton of young people are founders and entrepreneurs. Thanks to a handful of young founders with a disproportionate impact (ala Mark Zuckerberg) and cultural figures like HBO’s Silicon Valley, you can easily trick yourself into believing that entrepreneurship is all the craze among young people. Hacker meetups, entrepreneurship clubs

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  • Why Are Scientists Boasting of Creating ‘Synthetic Human Embryos’?

    Why Are Scientists Boasting of Creating ‘Synthetic Human Embryos’?2

    A scientist working in Cambridge and California has just announced that she and her colleagues have made a ‘synthetic human embryo’. They took a human embryonic  stem cell line and used it to make what looks like an early human embryo. This ‘synthetic human embryo’ has been cultivated past the legal limit for experimenting on

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