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  • Oxford Dictionaries’ “Word” of the Year? An Emoji

    Oxford Dictionaries’ “Word” of the Year? An Emoji0

    • November 17, 2015

    Each year, Oxford Dictionaries selects one “Word of the Year” that “best reflect[s] the ethos, mood, and preoccupations” of a given year. Yesterday, Oxford announced that its selection for 2015 wasn’t a word; it was an emoji. More specifically, this emoji: Oxford justified its selection by pointing out that “Emojis are no longer the preserve of

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  • Oxford Changing Tests to Help Women

    Oxford Changing Tests to Help Women0

    Via the College Fix: “Oxford University has decided to let students take a final exam at home — and they’ve switched it from a test to an essay — to help women do better on it, several newspapers in England report. Apparently women do better at take-home style assignments while men, so-called risk takers, do

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  • Owning Your Guilt: Why Everyone Must Learn to Do It

    Owning Your Guilt: Why Everyone Must Learn to Do It0

    In The Great Divorce—the title comes from Milton’s Paradise Lost and refers to the separation of Heaven and Hell—C.S. Lewis paints an unforgettable picture of hell. This is not the Gehenna depicted in the Bible, in the homilies and writings of the Middle Ages, or in Dante and Milton, a sewer of flames, torture, devils

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  • Owning a Piece of History: Why Artifacts Matter

    Owning a Piece of History: Why Artifacts Matter0

    Do historical objects matter? Are ancient artifacts anything more than old scraps of paper, moth-eaten fragments of fabric, or rusty hunks of metal? In frenetic modern life, with its emphasis on the now and the brand new, most people are more concerned with owning the latest iPhone than owning some relic of the past. But that’s a mistake.

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  • Owner of Historic Boston Restaurant Says Minimum Wage Hikes Hastened Its Demise

    Owner of Historic Boston Restaurant Says Minimum Wage Hikes Hastened Its Demise0

    Durgin-Park, a renowned Boston restaurant, has been around for a long time. It opened in 1827, when Massachusetts’ own John Quincy Adams was president of the United States. Phil Klein of the Washington Examiner wrote: “The restaurant, located in Boston’s Faneuil Hall, was an institution and tourist attraction, serving New England staples, such as chowder, shepherd’s

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  • Overwork Is Making Us ‘Time Poor’

    Overwork Is Making Us ‘Time Poor’32

    Something has gone wrong with the way we work. A recent survey by Wondr Health found that most American workers suffer from “time poverty.” Psychologist Mark Travers defines “time poverty” as “experiencing a lack of sufficient time to fulfill responsibilities, pursue interests or engage in activities that contribute to one’s well-being due to various demands on [one’s] time.”

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