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Earlier this week I came across a recent 60 Minutes segment making the rounds on the internet. The segment introduces viewers to a British 12-year-old named Alma Deutscher. Alma, you see, is quite unique. She is an accomplished pianist. She is an accomplished violinist. And she is also an accomplished composer. In fact, she is
READ MOREDoing good things for others, even on a small scale, seems to increase one’s sense of well-being and happiness more than things done to help one self. So concludes a new study in the journal Emotion (Nelson et al., 2016). Dr. Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog sums it up as follows: “…as people do nice things for
READ MOREWhether you are pro-this or anti-that, a passionate believer in human dignity, or an ultra-rational utilitarian, your bioethics always has to begin with the facts. While knowledge of consequences is only part of ethical decision-making, it is an essential part. Surrogacy is one issue in which the public gets only a very partial vision of
READ MOREAt the beginning of summer, we often are treated to a spate of “Summer Reading” lists that we are supposed to read “at the beach.” The trouble is, the lists are either so overstuffed with long books or are just so long that any attempt to read them at the beach will result in sun
READ MORE(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on September 2, 2016.) Have you ever thought that high school graduates today… well, just don’t seem to know or understand as much as they once did? According to a new research report from the Urban Institute, such a thought is not simply a result of generational
READ MOREAcross the country innumerable men will quietly admit to each other that they feel they are the unwanted ones of society, particularly if they’re white. But to say it in public? That’s not going to happen. And so, the task falls to a few brave women like Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys
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