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How These Cute Creatures Confound Evolutionary Theory 0
- Science
- May 7, 2016
We often hear that opposing the “scientific consensus” on this-or-that topic is benighted. Sometimes it can be that. But sometimes it isn’t—especially when scientific findings themselves contradict an established scientific consensus. For at least a century, biologists have believed that the more “genetic diversity” there is within a species, the better able that species is to adapt to environmental change, and thus thrive
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Would Math Scores Improve if Schools Taught Logic?0
- Culture
- May 6, 2016
According to The New York Times, Eugenia Cheng isn’t the run-of-the-mill mathematician who sits in a classroom all day surrounded by formulas and numbers. Instead, Dr. Cheng believes in making math come alive through hands on experience – like cooking. To accomplish this purpose, Dr. Cheng released a cookbook (How to Bake Pi) which uses
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The one Trump comparison you haven’t heard yet 0
- History
- May 6, 2016
The race for the Republican presidential nomination has provided pundits with ample opportunity to claim that we have reached an all-time low in terms of fractiousness, divisiveness and vulgarity. Not so. A quick look to the Classical world lays to rest such a naive assumption. Politics under any system of government is always a dirty
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Is too much ‘stuff’ affecting our ability to be content?0
- Culture
- May 6, 2016
It is common to hear people talk about the huge expense of raising children. Yet, most figures reported about how much it costs to raise a child are based on what parents actually spend, not what children actually need – which is a pretty big distinction. We all know that a reliance on ‘things’ won’t
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Cartoonist Fired After Poke at Big Ag CEOs 0
- Culture
- May 6, 2016
Rick Friday, the longtime cartoonist whose drawings had appeared in the Iowa-based publication Farm News for more than two decades, drew his final cartoon for the publication last week, he said. In a Facebook message posted April 30, Friday suggested he was fired because his cartoon “insulted” someone affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned
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Can We Really Know Ourselves?0
- Literature
- May 6, 2016
“This above all: To thine own self be true.” – Polonius (From Hamlet) “Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.” – G. K. Chesterton On this very
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