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  • The Meaning of Ash Wednesday

    The Meaning of Ash Wednesday0

    Ash Wednesday is—oddly perhaps—a day I have long associated with bushfires, better known in the American hemisphere as wildfires. I come from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where on Ash Wednesday in 1983, catastrophic bushfires, driven by 70-mph winds and fueled by years of drought-ravaged eucalyptus forest, tragically claimed 28 lives. In the neighboring

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  • The MC at This State Fair Did Something Unusual

    The MC at This State Fair Did Something Unusual0

    • September 8, 2015

    Yesterday, I wrapped up my summer by attending the Minnesota State Fair. While there, I had the fun of watching a true piece of Americana: a bull riding rodeo competition. Exciting? Absolutely! The bulls were bucking, the cowboys were flying, and once the rodeo hands had to scatter, practically scaling the walls of the arena

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  • The Marxist Class System of Energy Drinks

    The Marxist Class System of Energy Drinks1

    Recently I was drinking a can of Rockstar to get myself through a morning staff meeting. I thought nothing of the usual ribbing about my caffeine dependency, until a co-worker labeled Rockstar as the energy drink of the bourgeoisie. “Are you kidding?” I asked. “I can get this stuff on sale for a dollar a

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  • The Martian’s Utopian Dream?

    The Martian’s Utopian Dream?0

    By the end of The Martian, more than anything else, my wife and I were both struck by the clear vision of the way forward for man, an almost utopian vision grounded in a faith in science. The problem is that the vision ignores the nature of man. (Warning: If you haven’t seen The Martian,

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  • The Markles Discover America

    The Markles Discover America0

    Welcome to America, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle! The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have alighted on these shores and it looks like they will stick around. When they announced in January that they would be “stepping back” from full-time work as royals, Harry and Meghan said they wanted to live in “North America.” At

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  • The March for Science Had Nothing to do with Science

    The March for Science Had Nothing to do with Science0

    A march for science is a contradiction in terms. Marching is an expression of our subjective emotions. Science is an attempt to put emotion and subjectivity aside in order to discover how the world works. If you march for science, you are clearly marching for something other than science, and damaging the standing of science

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