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  • The Global Market Miracle of the 99-Cent Pineapple

    The Global Market Miracle of the 99-Cent Pineapple0

    A few times a year, my local grocery store advertises whole, fresh pineapples for 99 cents. Yours probably does, too. Every time I see it, I can’t help but wonder at the progress of humanity. Pineapple isn’t new. It was first cultivated by the Maya and Aztec peoples in South and Central America, millenia ago.

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  • The Gifts of Gratitude

    The Gifts of Gratitude0

    “Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, Thank you for the birds that sing, Thank you, God, for everything.”                                   – Child’s Mealtime Blessing Thanksgiving is a day set aside, as Abraham

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  • The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire

    The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire1

    “Le grand absent—c’est l’Empire” C. Dufour, Constantinople Imaginaire Everywhere Western man longs for Constantinople and nowhere has he any idea how to find her. To do so is to reclaim, at last, the meaning of an empire that once defined a hierarchy of imagination long ago abandoned by our civilization; of an eleven-century political, religious and

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  • The Genetic Difference Between Early Risers and Late Sleepers

    The Genetic Difference Between Early Risers and Late Sleepers0

    It’s early in the morning, your alarm goes off at 6 a.m., just like it always does.  Time to get up and start the day. You sit up, slide your legs over the edge of the bed, and rub your eyes groggily as you adjust to being cognitive again. A pretty average morning for those

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  • The Gender Pay Gap is Real … but it Has Little to Do With Gender Discrimination

    The Gender Pay Gap is Real … but it Has Little to Do With Gender Discrimination0

    On occasion of International Women’s Day, millions of people marched on the streets of dozens of cities around the world to vindicate women’s rights and denounce gender-based violence and discrimination in all its forms. In Spain, demonstrations were accompanied by a general strike that, according to labor unions, was followed by 5.3 million women. One

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  • The Gender Gestapo Are Coming to Schools

    The Gender Gestapo Are Coming to Schools0

    • October 20, 2015

    The PC police are hitting the streets of England and heading toward the elementary schools. Their mission? Stop children from using “sexist language.” As the Telegraph reports: “Children as young as five are going to be admonished for using language that enforces gender stereotypes as new guidelines are sent to every school in England this

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