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  • Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.

    Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.1

    The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. Only around 25 per cent of the global corpus of research knowledge is ‘open access’, or accessible to the public for free

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  • Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History

    Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History0

    The United States had a population of 1.5 million postsecondary faculty members in the fall of 2016. This ivory tower army produces volumes of written material so lofty that it’s rarely read by anyone. The content that is read can be hard for every day Americans to take seriously, for with 10.4 registered Democrats for every registered Republican, the political bias is strong

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  • Abstaining from Sex Until Marriage Helps Marriages Last

    Abstaining from Sex Until Marriage Helps Marriages Last0

    Virginity gets very little press or screen time these days and that’s a shame. As a new American study confirms, a woman who enters marriage as a virgin has the best chance of still being married five years later – and probably beyond that. In fact, the odds of her marriage lasting have got better over

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  • Absolute Comfort Corrupts Absolutely

    Absolute Comfort Corrupts Absolutely0

    My men went on and presently met the Lotus-Eaters, nor did these Lotus-Eaters have any thought of destroying our companions, but they only gave them lotus to taste of. But any of them who ate the honey-sweet fruit of lotus was unwilling to take any message back, or to go away, but they wanted to

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  • Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Letter to His Son’s Teacher’ is Totally Fake

    Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Letter to His Son’s Teacher’ is Totally Fake3

    Someone recently shared with me, via social media, a charming letter Abraham Lincoln supposedly wrote to his son’s teacher on the day the lad started school. The headline was catchy. I couldn’t resist clicking. After all, perhaps there was a bit of wisdom in the letter I could share with Intellectual Takeout readers. Here is

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  • About Those Apparitions Who Shook Down Scrooge for Money

    About Those Apparitions Who Shook Down Scrooge for Money0

    No Christmas season would be complete without plentiful opportunities to watch stage or television productions of Charles Dickens’ unfortunately immortal A Christmas Carol. The classic Reginald Owen and Alastair Sim movies will no doubt play several times on multiple cable channels. We have a live production showing at the Alleyway Theatre here in Buffalo, N.Y.

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