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  • A (Seemingly) Simple Way to Feel Happier

    A (Seemingly) Simple Way to Feel Happier0

    Doing 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

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  • A (Real) Handmaid’s Tale

    A (Real) Handmaid’s Tale0

    Whether 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

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  • A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach

    A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach0

    At 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

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  • 9th Grade Reading Lists: 1922 vs. Today

    9th Grade Reading Lists: 1922 vs. Today0

    (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

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  • 90% Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate: Where are the fathers?

    90% Out-of-Wedlock Birth Rate: Where are the fathers?0

    Across 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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  • 9 Truths MLK Taught us about Peace and Nonviolence

    9 Truths MLK Taught us about Peace and Nonviolence0

    1. “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.” – How Long, Not

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