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  • UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between ‘Mad Max and Hunger Games’

    UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between ‘Mad Max and Hunger Games’0

    • October 15, 2018

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to wreak havoc on humans. The report is about 800 pages long, so I’ll offer a summary to save you some time: Global temperatures today are 1.0°C above pre-industrial temperatures. We’re seeing an increase in

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  • UK’s National Health Service Moves to Cut Healthcare for Smokers and the Obese

    UK’s National Health Service Moves to Cut Healthcare for Smokers and the Obese0

    • November 9, 2017

    A core tenant of the pledge taken by all physicians is their promise first and foremost to do no harm. A physician’s vow to care for patients in a manner which does not cause physical, mental, or emotional harm has guided treatment decisions since the days of Hippocrates. Recently, however, the National Health Service, known as

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  • UK to Construct Wall to Stem Flow of Illegal Immigrants

    UK to Construct Wall to Stem Flow of Illegal Immigrants0

    Walls, it seems, are back in style.  At least in Europe. Via the BBC: Dubbed the “Great Wall of Calais” by some media, the 4m (13ft) wall will run for 1km (0.6 miles) along both sides of the main road to Calais port. [United Kingdom] Home Office minister Robert Goodwill said security was being “stepped

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  • UK Report: One in Four Adults ‘Struggle to Read Bus Timetable’

    UK Report: One in Four Adults ‘Struggle to Read Bus Timetable’0

    In 1927, G. K. Chesterton gave a talk at University College, London, on the topic of “Culture and the Coming Peril”. It was one of the best talks he ever gave and one of the most prophetic. He began by addressing the expectation of many in his audience that the “coming peril” was communism, the

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  • Uh-Oh… This is What Happens When There are Too Many Young People in the World

    Uh-Oh… This is What Happens When There are Too Many Young People in the World0

    According to the headline of an article this month by Somini Sengupta in the New York Times Sunday Review, “The world has a problem: too many young people.” As soon as I saw that I wanted to ask: Too many for whom and for what? It’s easier to cluck about demographic imbalances then to explain

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  • Uh Oh: U.S. Student Test Scores Drop

    Uh Oh: U.S. Student Test Scores Drop0

    For the first time in 25 years, U.S. student scores on the national standardized test have dropped. As USA Today reports, “The latest results of the biennial tests, given to thousands of students and nicknamed ‘The Nation’s Report Card,’ show a first-ever drop in math scores for the randomly selected students in both fourth- and eighth-grade students

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