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  • This is news?

    This is news?0

    • September 22, 2015

    I’ve been told that the video about a rat dragging a pizza is trending in the news. I’m sure it’s good clickbait material, which we might even benefit from, too. But at least we’re being honest. USA Today, “the nation’s newspaper”, got in on it:   ABC News joined in, too:  Where would we be without knowing that

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  • This is How the Irish Saved Civilization

    This is How the Irish Saved Civilization0

    The title chosen Thomas Cahill’s bestselling book—How the Irish Saved Civilization—was definitely a marketing triumph. Even many of those who have never read the book are now aware that the Irish were somehow involved in “saving civilization.” On this, the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it a fitting time to repeat Cahill’s basis

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  • This Is How a Dark Age Begins…

    This Is How a Dark Age Begins…2

    In order to really be said to “know” something, it must become a part of you. Information, ideas, and data: these are external to us. It is only through undertaking the hard, focused work of thinking through these things and understanding them that we internalize them; that they become “knowledge.” One finds this sentiment echoed

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  • This is How a Chinese Son Begged His Parents for Forgiveness

    This is How a Chinese Son Begged His Parents for Forgiveness0

    Last week, people from around the world were moved by the above photo, which showed 46-year-old Zhang Jinli kneeling in front of his parents at a railway station, begging them for forgiveness. According to the BBC: “He was apparently begging his parents, who are both in their eighties, for forgiveness. The paper reported that Mr

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  • This is an AMAZING Insight from a Famous Historian

    This is an AMAZING Insight from a Famous Historian0

    Will and Ariel Durant spent fifty years of their lives working on their magisterial Story of Civilization, a sweeping 11-volume survey of human history written in beautiful prose. After completing it, they compiled their historical insights in a book titled The Lessons of History.         Among the gems in it is the

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  • This Independence Day, Let’s Support the Brave Who Keep Us Free

    This Independence Day, Let’s Support the Brave Who Keep Us Free1

    It’s a sad fact that some Americans who give everything for their country receive little in return. There are at least 41,000 homeless veterans, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and over a million housing insecure veterans, according to Dana Spain, the founder and president of Veterans Villages, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

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