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  • Screenshot of 2004 Conversation Proves Mark Zuckerberg Never Cared About Your Privacy

    Screenshot of 2004 Conversation Proves Mark Zuckerberg Never Cared About Your Privacy0

    I recently golfed with a friend who works at a large corporation. When the topic of work came up, we swapped stories about our mutual loathing of Facebook. I complained about its algorithm changes, which make it much more difficult to reach our audience. She complained about the mass amounts of personal data her company

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  • Screen Zombies: Is There One Living in Your House?

    Screen Zombies: Is There One Living in Your House?2

    The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has released the scores for this year’s reading and math evaluations. And it’s not flattering. The Nation’s Report Card revealed that math scores for fourth-graders fell five points since 2019, while those for eighth-graders tumbled eight points. This is the steepest decline since testing began over 30 years

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  • Scratches, Warps, and the Art of Owning Art

    Scratches, Warps, and the Art of Owning Art0

    My new (to me) car is a 2014 commuter. Nothing about it is glamorous. A co-worker has affectionately referred to the paint color as casket blue, if that tells you anything. But my car has a built-in CD player, and I consider that dated feature worth commenting on. The plan is simple. Seek out well-loved CDs

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  • SCOTUS Allows Nevada to Favor Caesars Palace Over Calvary Chapel

    SCOTUS Allows Nevada to Favor Caesars Palace Over Calvary Chapel0

    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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  • Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’

    Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0

    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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  • Scientists: Funny People are Smarter

    Scientists: Funny People are Smarter0

    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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