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  • What Does the Government Buy on Its Year-End Spending Spree? Here’s What Made the List.

    What Does the Government Buy on Its Year-End Spending Spree? Here’s What Made the List.0

    The month of September marks the end of the fiscal year and the beginning of the federal government’s annual spending frenzy. Federal agencies scramble to spend what’s left in their budgets, in fear that leaving excess funds will prompt Congress to send less in the following year. We call it “use it or lose it”

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  • What does Liquid Nitrogen do to Your Face?

    What does Liquid Nitrogen do to Your Face?0

    What do you do when it’s Friday afternoon and you’ve ran out of ideas to write about? You go to Youtube!  Sure enough, after scrolling through a few dozen videos I was able to find something that looked cool enough to share with Intellectual Takeout readers.  Grant Thompson (aka “The King of Random”) makes weekly videos that

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  • What Does Healthy Democracy Look Like?

    What Does Healthy Democracy Look Like?0

    Surely nobody in this day and age has the temerity to suggest that there’s anything wrong with democracy? Surely I am not doing so? Well, it depends what exactly we mean by democracy. As always, it’s important that we define our terms. Democracy means the rule of the people (Demos = People). The rule of

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  • What Does an Education System with “Tracks” Look Like?

    What Does an Education System with “Tracks” Look Like?0

    • June 24, 2015

    The United States is increasingly criticized for having a “one-size-fits-all” public education system. In this system, students of varying abilities, talents, and desires are provided with a similar curriculum through high school and are prepared for the same goal of college. It is argued that this monolithic model of educating students leads to dumbed down academics and

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  • What Do Women Want? A Willingness to Protect

    What Do Women Want? A Willingness to Protect1

    For decades now, well-meaning men have found to their consternation that many modern feminists openly resent gentlemanly gestures of service such as opening a door for them. Some of the offended women have actually assumed that the offer condescendingly suggests that they are too weak to open a door for themselves. The culture today is

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  • What do the yellow-ish countries have in common?

    What do the yellow-ish countries have in common?0

    Transparency International released its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking the world’s countries by levels of corruption, in January 2016. Why a “perceptions” index? According to the institute, it’s the best way: “Corruption generally comprises illegal activities, which are deliberately hidden and only come to light through scandals, investigations or prosecutions. There is no meaningful way

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