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  • Are We Inching Toward World War III?

    Are We Inching Toward World War III?1

    A couple of weeks ago, we posted about a Harvard professor’s thesis that the U.S. could likely be at war with China in the next decade. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan wonders if the same might be true of the U.S. and Russia. His provocatively-titled piece in Slate last week pointed out that “The

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  • Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?

    Are We In Fact Melding With Machines?0

    Here’s a headline worth pondering: “Chinese parents want students to wear dystopian brainwave-detecting headbands.” The story, on the website SupChina, details the latest innovation at the Jiangnan Experimental School in Hangzhou. Interestingly enough, the electronic headband, dubbed Focus EDU, is made by a Harvard-incubated American startup, BrainCo, based in Somerville, Massachusetts—right next to Cambridge. As the company’s chatty video explains, in a traditional

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  • Are We Focusing Too Much on Gender Discrimination?

    Are We Focusing Too Much on Gender Discrimination?0

    In an article for Forbes, scholar Andrew Biggs highlights a recent study on the gender differences in Ph.D. graduates. As the chart below shows, women hold a majority of Ph.D.’s in the humanities, while men hold them in the areas of math and science. As Biggs goes on to explain, such differences are just one

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  • Are We Failing to Teach Boys how to Treat Women?

    Are We Failing to Teach Boys how to Treat Women?2

    Over the weekend, I came across an interesting book entitled The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hall Iggulden. Recognizing that many of today’s boys no longer know how to do essential “boy things” such as tying knots, building tree forts and go-carts, or making other tools and gadgets, the book undertakes to give

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  • Are We Entering an Age of Decay as Birth Rates Fall?

    Are We Entering an Age of Decay as Birth Rates Fall?2

    Most countries – even in the developing world – are entering an era of ageing and population decline. With fewer and fewer babies and more and more elderly, what does the future look like? According to Shamil Ismail, a South African investment analysist, it looks very grim. In his book The Age of Decay: How Aging

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  • Are We Dressing to the Lowest Common Denominator?

    Are We Dressing to the Lowest Common Denominator?37

    A while back, a married couple asked for the time of the morning service at my church, promising to show up the following Sunday. They did, and enjoyed the service, but an observation by the wife surprised me. “Everyone’s dressed up,” was the essence of her comment. Even the ladies, she noticed, were wearing skirts

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