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  • Widow’s Searing ‘Rage Defense’ of Patton Oswalt’s Engagement Goes Viral

    Widow’s Searing ‘Rage Defense’ of Patton Oswalt’s Engagement Goes Viral0

    Erica Roman is a widow who blogs about the pain of losing someone. Her husband died unexpectedly of an undetected heart condition in 2016, and blogging helps her heal, she says. In a blog post published over the weekend, she wrote that she was thrilled to learn that actor and comedian Patton Oswalt–who also lost

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  • Widow Explains Why Assisted Suicide Can Be Harder on the Family Than Natural Death

    Widow Explains Why Assisted Suicide Can Be Harder on the Family Than Natural Death0

    The journalist wife of a Sky News journalist has written a memoir chronicling her reaction to her husband’s one-way trip to a Swiss suicide clinic. Deborah Binner is bitterly critical of the decision her spouse Simon made to seek assisted suicide after being stricken with a fast-moving form of motor neurone disease. She writes from

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  • Why Your Son Should Reconsider College

    Why Your Son Should Reconsider College1

    A young friend of mine is in his last year of high school and asking the age-old “what do I do with my life” question. Most average high school seniors would be settling on their final liberal arts college choice right now—more concerned about the climbing wall in the student center and the cafeteria entrees

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  • Why Your Metal Straw Won’t Save the World

    Why Your Metal Straw Won’t Save the World0

    Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the planet and try to make a positive impact through decisions in my day-to-day life. But I also am nagged by the feeling that I often get it wrong, even though I analyze environmental problems for a living. Concerned about plastics in the ocean, I renounced

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  • Why Your Memory Is Not Nearly As Good As You Think It Is

    Why Your Memory Is Not Nearly As Good As You Think It Is0

    False memories have gotten a lot of attention lately with the documentary series “Making a Murderer.” The series chronicled Steven Avery, a man falsely imprisoned for 18 years on the word of eyewitness testimony. The eyewitness testified that she was positive that Avery was the man who had raped her. Later, DNA evidence proved that

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  • Why Your Kids Should Avoid Summer Reading Programs

    Why Your Kids Should Avoid Summer Reading Programs0

    Libraries are ideal examples of local, self-directed learning hubs that support all members of a community in learning naturally, without coercion. Late-nineteenth century steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie, who created many of the first public libraries, stated: “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never

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