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  • Behind Every Masculine Man Is a Feminine Woman

    Behind Every Masculine Man Is a Feminine Woman14

    If you as a woman want to change the world, then cast off the bonds of feminism and instead embrace femininity.

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  • Behind Closed Doors: What the Piltdown Man Hoax from 1912 can Teach Science Today

    Behind Closed Doors: What the Piltdown Man Hoax from 1912 can Teach Science Today0

    In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist in England, claimed he’d made one of the most important fossil discoveries ever. Ultimately, however, his “Piltdown Man” proved to be a hoax. By cleverly pairing a human skull with an orangutan’s jaw – stained to match and give the appearance of age – a mysterious forger duped

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  • Begotten, Not Made: Revisiting the Morality of Surrogacy

    Begotten, Not Made: Revisiting the Morality of Surrogacy0

    Surrogacy is much in the news these days. New Jersey and Washington recently legalized commercial gestational surrogacy, while similar legislation was just rejected in New York. Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West welcomed a second child through surrogacy, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his husband want a child, surrogacy being an option. Stories of couples struggling with the deep pain

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  • Before Shakespeare There Was Chaucer

    Before Shakespeare There Was Chaucer0

    Before William Shakespeare there was Geoffrey Chaucer. The Bard borrowed at least one of his plots from his predecessor (“The Two Noble Kinsmen,” was based on the “Knight’s Tale”). Both English greats were, it could be said, refashioning Homer’s Shield of Achilles as they painted elaborate portraits of their entire societies, from the lowliest corners to

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  • Before Indiana Jones came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron

    Before Indiana Jones came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron0

    Before Indiana Jones and Lawrence of Arabia, came Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron. Born in 1731, Anquetil was the original Orientalist-adventurer: a European scholarly expert of Asian culture who also embodied bold, heroic action in the field. His speciality was the roots of ancient religions in Asia. He was the first European to translate the Avesta, a

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  • Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?

    Bedtime Stories Help Kids—So Ban Them?0

    Class divides and racial divides are passé. Now, there’s bedtime reading inequality. In a recent article for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, journalist Joe Gelonesi asked whether loving families are an “unfair advantage.” The piece asked whether we should level the academic playing field among all children, by having all parents stop bedtime reading in order

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