Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the greatest play ever written. It is, however, also one of the most misunderstood. One could write a book, or perhaps a whole shelf-full of books, on the way in which the play is misconstrued by critics, or the manner in which it is sacrificed to the latest literary fads. The
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In a recent Facebook post, Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, shared a letter he received from an Arkansas mother. The letter ran as follows: Dear Mike My son, Spencer, decided to apply for the High Voltage Lineman program at Arkansas State University Newport. He went through the interviews just fine,
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Italian transplant surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero wants to perform head transplants. He was recently interviewed by Barry Morgan on CJAD 800 Montreal Radio and said he was hoping to carry out the surgery in China, before the end of 2017. He explained that when the spinal cord of a rat is cut, rather than crushed
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. The son of a pencil maker, Thoreau became one of the finest and most independent thinkers of his day (this free thinking is perhaps evidenced by his early decision to go by Henry David instead of David Henry). A brilliant poet, naturalist, and
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It’s been a quarter century since Harvard economist Amartya Sen published research showing that more than 100 million women were “missing” from the global population. Where were they? Two decades later, the answer to that question became clearer. In her Pulitzer Prize finalist book Unnatural Selection, Mara Hvistendahl detailed how females around the world were
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With the rising cost of college and the decline of skilled workers, the idea of apprenticeship has been catching on as a worthy higher education alternative. After all, who wouldn’t want the opportunity to earn money while learning, gain hands-on experience, and get a foot in the job field of their choice? The idea of
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