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  • An Antidote To Madness: The Happy Creek Coffee Shop

    An Antidote To Madness: The Happy Creek Coffee Shop0

    Daft. Demented. One sandwich short of a picnic. No light on in the attic. Out to lunch. Stark raving mad. Every morning, these words and phrases pop to mind as I jump from site to online site, catching the headlines, browsing part of an article here and there, stopping for a longer visit with a

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  • An America With Two Presidents

    An America With Two Presidents0

    In the aftermath of Election Day 2020, ballots continue to be counted, states remain undecided, and party lawyers are dreaming about where to invest their upcoming billable hours. One thing we can count on, America’s political institutions are about to face a unique and fascinating challenge to their legitimacy. For those who have better things

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  • An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts

    An Amazing Thing Happened When Prisons Began Teaching Latin to Convicts0

    A little over a year ago, it was reported that Australian schoolchildren were suddenly making dramatic gains in a number of subjects. The largest advances came in reading, with students increasing their “reading age” by over two years on average. The secret behind these dramatic gains was a little program called Sound Training, which uses

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  • An Ad You Would Never See Today

    An Ad You Would Never See Today0

    • November 21, 2016

    Today, all fifty states in the U.S. have passed some form of anti-bullying legislation, and many school districts and colleges have extensive campaigns attempting to reduce it. Bullying is an unfortunate rite of passage that many of us have been subjected to at one point in our lives. But in the past two decades, the

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  • An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis

    An Acute Outbreak of Moralitis0

    The ‘silly season’, they call it – when Parliament has closed for the summer holidays, and the newspapers scramble for titbits. Last week the media pounced on a commentary by the recently-resigned Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, the flaxen-haired politician pretending to be an essayist (or is it the other way round?). Don’t ban the burqa, Boris

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  • An Absolutely Shocking Statistic about America’s Education System

    An Absolutely Shocking Statistic about America’s Education System0

    • May 11, 2017

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