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  • Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It

    Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It0

    Millennials, myself included, have a bad habit of complaining that #AdultingIsHard. A simple hashtag search of that on Twitter will get you literally thousands of results, even a few accounts with that claim as their usernames. It’s a trope so ingrained into my generation that it can be used almost anywhere. You finally graduated from

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  • Adolescents Have a Fundamental Need to Contribute

    Adolescents Have a Fundamental Need to Contribute0

    No longer children but not yet adults, adolescents need opportunities to learn and prepare for their entrance into the broader society. But, as schooling increasingly extends the adolescent period and teenagers get dismissed as supposedly selfish and irresponsible, has society forgotten an important developmental need of our youth? As a developmental scientist who focuses on

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  • Admiral Rips Kneeling During National Anthem in Pearl Harbor Speech

    Admiral Rips Kneeling During National Anthem in Pearl Harbor Speech0

    Colin Kaepernick had a tough day in Chicago on Sunday. His week is not getting any better. On Wednesday, at a ceremony in Hawaii to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback found his conduct in the crosshairs of U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris. “You

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  • Addiction: Are We All Wrong About Its Causes?

    Addiction: Are We All Wrong About Its Causes?0

    • November 8, 2017

    There is a commercial familiar to anyone who grew up in the 1980s. It involves a white rat in a cage furiously attacking a pill. “Only one drug is so addictive nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it … and use it … and use it,” a raspy voice murmurs, “until dead.” The

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  • Adam Smith’s Three Moral Principles for Navigating Our National Crisis

    Adam Smith’s Three Moral Principles for Navigating Our National Crisis0

    America is on fire. Protestors are burning flags. Rioters are burning cars. And people are metaphorically burning bridges, rendering it impossible to speak across the chasm of political difference. It’s time to pause in burning down our national house. As the Talking Heads warn in their iconic song, “Watch out. You might get what you

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  • Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book

    Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book3

    Adam Smith is best known for writing The Wealth of Nations, but in a way, his work in economics took a back seat to his moral philosophy. In fact, Smith thought that his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more important than his economic theory. It’s in this book, for example, that Smith

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