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  • Longing for Simpler Living

    Longing for Simpler Living0

    What do minimalism, slow living, tech resistance, and homesteading – all growing trends in America – have in common? They all spring from a longing for a simpler way of life. Sometimes that longing takes on a nostalgic or idealistic form. Yet it’s a legitimate desire, symptomatic of our sense that something has gone wrong, that our techno-industrial world, for

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  • Long-lost Beatrix Potter Tale Uncovered

    Long-lost Beatrix Potter Tale Uncovered0

    My relationship with Beatrix Potter goes way back. I got to know her in second grade when the school English curriculum took me through her famous stories one by one. Although finding the definitions for the vocabulary words and answering the comprehension questions – in COMPLETE sentences, mind you – were a daunting task, I

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  • Loners Are More Intellectual and Loyal Than Other People

    Loners Are More Intellectual and Loyal Than Other People0

    (Inspired by iHeartIntelligence) Speaking as a loner myself, I can tell you that there is a huge difference between a person who is socially rejected and a person who rejects social interaction.  And even though loners often get a bad wrap (I’m assuming because people are upset that they don’t want to be a part of

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  • Loneliness is Killing Us

    Loneliness is Killing Us0

    That’s the claim made by George Monbiot in a column for The Guardian entitled “The Age of Loneliness is Killing Us.”   He explains:   “Three months ago we read that loneliness has become an epidemic among young adults. Now we learn that it is just as great an affliction of older people. A study

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  • London Grade School: “No TV or Tech… Not Even at Home.”

    London Grade School: “No TV or Tech… Not Even at Home.”0

    • September 29, 2015

    Did you ever have a parent or grandparent who regaled you with stories of life before television? In an era where almost everyone carries a tiny screened device in their pockets, such a life seems impossible to replicate, but one school in London has accepted the challenge. As The Guardian reports, the London Acorn School

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  • Logical Fallacies in the Gun Debate

    Logical Fallacies in the Gun Debate1

    In 2017, the data website FiveThirtyEight declared that the U.S. had become more polarized on the issue of guns that at any time in the nation’s history. Because of the emotional nature of the debate, both gun control advocates and Second Amendment proponents increasingly resorted to violent rhetoric (“burn her!”), conspiracy theories, and especially irrational

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