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  • 8 Facts to Know about the Stone Which Broke the Code of History

    8 Facts to Know about the Stone Which Broke the Code of History0

    Discovered on July 19 in 1799 by the French, the Rosetta Stone proved to be one of the most important historical discoveries in the history of, well… history. As the most popular artifact in the British Museum, it sees most of the Museum’s 6.8 million visitors each year. Below are eight facts about the now

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  • 8 Deeper-Than-Usual Critiques of American Education

    8 Deeper-Than-Usual Critiques of American Education0

    In 1987 Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind was published. It represented a penetrating critique of higher education in America. Almost thirty years later, his criticisms—including the following eight—are still very much relevant:   1) “Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is

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  • 8 Climate Change Questions Scientists Should Be Asking

    8 Climate Change Questions Scientists Should Be Asking0

    Dr. Arturo Casadevall and Dr. Ferric C. Fang correctly distilled down the scientific method into a five word query: “but what if I’m wrong?” One would hope that as these two microbiologists step out of the comfort zone of their field into the politically charged and messaging-driven world of environmental science and policy they ask

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  • 8 Characteristics of a Rational Soul

    8 Characteristics of a Rational Soul0

    Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.), the last of Rome’s Five Great Emperors, was in many ways the paradigm of Plato’s philosopher king. His Meditations (essentially a diary written for himself) reveal a man striving for peace through wisdom, self-control, and stoical acceptance. One theme that runs through Meditations is the power of human reason and its ability to harness

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  • 8 Astute Comments from Aldous Huxley

    8 Astute Comments from Aldous Huxley0

    1. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”   2. “There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”   3. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history

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  • 75 Years Later, Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics Need Updating

    75 Years Later, Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics Need Updating0

    When science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised his Three Laws of Robotics he was thinking about androids. He envisioned a world where these human-like robots would act like servants and would need a set of programming rules to prevent them from causing harm. But in the 75 years since the publication of the first story

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