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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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  • Why are Schools Cutting Back on PE?

    Why are Schools Cutting Back on PE?0

    • October 6, 2015

    According to a 2013 report, 44% of schools have cut back on physical education and recess.   History, it seems, ends up repeating itself. The same thing happened in Ancient Greece. In its beginnings, Ancient Greek civilization placed a high value on amateur sports. Students at school were trained in physical education classes in events

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  • Why Are Potentially Viable COVID-19 Treatments Being Suppressed?

    Why Are Potentially Viable COVID-19 Treatments Being Suppressed?0

    The only thing we know for certain about COVID-19 is that more people are dying this year than in previous years. A lot more. CDC data on deaths from all causes show an increase through May 20 of 11 percent above the average through that same date for the previous six years. That’s over 127,000

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