The Hollywood image of the university professor as a tweed blazer, button-up wearing young urban professional with plenty of disposable income is an enduring one. If only it were true. The image defies reality, at least for the vast majority of college professors. On most college and university campuses today, more than half are referred to
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A recent ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals menaces free speech in condominiums, apartment buildings, and the Internet. It allowed individual bloggers to be sued because their blog posts allegedly created a “hostile housing environment” for condo residents who kept emotional-support dogs despite the condominium’s no-dogs rule. This “hostile environment” allegedly rendered those
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Anyone asked to leave an overbooked flight for which they purchased a ticket would be justifiably annoyed. They have somewhere they need to be, and it wasn’t their fault United Airlines screwed up. So when a passenger on United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was randomly chosen to be removed, he was right
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The month of March brought with it the lowest number of apprehensions along the U.S. southern border since at least the year 2000. This decrease can be credited to the strict enforcement policies that have been put in place since President Donald Trump took office, coupled with the now-credible threat of deportation that illegal immigrants
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We’ve all heard the expression “According to research…” followed by some scientific finding that we are expected, given this prefatory expression, to accept without question. But as it turns out, even in a field as supposedly objective as biomedicine, reliability and validity are sorely wanting. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, science writer Richard Harris bemoans
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I drove by the new Whole Foods grocery store in my community the other day. It’s big, it’s hip-looking, and it offers much better parking than its former location. But according to a recent Washington Post article, the perks of this new store may be costing Whole Foods more than they would have liked. In
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