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One bad decision can be a mistake. Two is a pattern. In late May, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Supreme Court’s four liberal members in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom to deny a request from a California church that it be allowed to operate under the same conditions as similar secular
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In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation
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This may come as a surprise or it may not, but according to a 2011 study from researchers at the University of New Mexico, funny people seem to be a bit smarter than your average person. The University of New Mexico asked 400 psychology students to complete measures of abstract reasoning ability and verbal intelligence
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Modern education tends to focus on STEM — the acronym for “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math” — to the exclusion of the liberal arts. But when it comes to education, it shouldn’t be an “either-or” between the sciences and the liberal arts but a “both-and.” The liberals arts offer an indispensable foundation for those who
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Scientists have long tried to explain the origin of a mysterious, large and anomalously cold region of the sky. In 2015, they came close to figuring it out as a study showed it to be a “supervoid” in which the density of galaxies is much lower than it is in the rest of the universe.
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The technology that allowed Marty McFly to travel back in time in the 1985 movie Back to the Future was the mythical flux capacitor, designed by inventor Doc Brown. We’ve now developed our own kind of flux capacitor, as detailed recently in Physical Review Letters. While we can’t send a DeLorean car back in time,
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