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  • Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow

    Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow0

    Several years ago, the now world-famous clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson made a list of 32 rules for living and posted them on Quora. Those rules became so popular that Peterson fleshed out a handful of them in the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Peterson’s original list was headed by a simple

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  • Brutal Reviews of Shakespeare from the 1600s

    Brutal Reviews of Shakespeare from the 1600s0

    In 1660, Samuel Pepys, a 26-year-old civil servant in London, started writing a diary. He kept it up for about a decade before quitting, and the surviving record offers historians a rich glimpse into daily life in 17th century England. Take this entry from March 1, 1661. Pepys, an avid fan of theater, recorded his

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  • British Study Explains What Public Schools Can Learn From Private Ones

    British Study Explains What Public Schools Can Learn From Private Ones0

    It’s always been considered important to train children in the hard, concrete, academic skills such as math, science, and reading. But in recent years, teaching “soft skills” – attitudes such as determination and persistence which affect a student’s future social promotion – has also become the domain of the school system.  Recognizing this trend, researchers

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  • British Physician Accused of ‘Shortening the Lives’ of Hundreds of Patients Resigns

    British Physician Accused of ‘Shortening the Lives’ of Hundreds of Patients Resigns0

    What do you think? Am I naïve, or what? When I hear that without a good medical reason the life of a hospital patient “was shortened”, it sounds an awful lot like murder. Even if we downgrade it to “unlawful killing”, even if it happened once, unlawful killing is a crime that shouldn’t ever happen in

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  • British Educator: Student Success Comes from “Quiet, sensible, matter-of-fact parents”

    British Educator: Student Success Comes from “Quiet, sensible, matter-of-fact parents”0

    Last month, students at Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota were shocked when two students assaulted a teacher and administrator who were trying to break up a lunchroom spat: “The older student is accused of slamming a teacher against a wall, choking him and then slamming him onto the floor after the teacher tried

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  • Britain to Begin Altering the DNA of Human Embryos

    Britain to Begin Altering the DNA of Human Embryos1

    British scientists are leading the way into a murky future of genetically-modified human beings. The Seattle Times reports that Britain has allowed its scientists to begin altering the DNA of human embryos. Scientists will be conducting  “gene-editing experiments” on embryos. Gene editing involves repairing or replacing certain parts of the genetic code in a “biological

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