Around the world women do more unpaid work than men. The Gates Foundation says that needs to change in order to “unlock the potential of women”, according to a recent article for the New York Times. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says that worldwide women spend “an average of 4.5 hours a day
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Homeschooling and its high level of success has become a highly-accepted fact in the U.S. in recent years. Other countries, however, are not as familiar with the concept, and thus view the practice with a wary eye. Such has been the case in Australia, particularly in the state of New South Wales (NSW). According to
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Many times on Intellectual Takeout, we see our readers label our current age an “Idiocracy,” referring to the 2006 dystopian movie in which all future American citizens, including the president, are idiots. Well, it now appears that the co-writer of “Idiocracy” agrees with them. In a now-viral post on Twitter yesterday, Etan Cohen tweeted that
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The other day the Washington Post ran an article entitled “The baffling reason many millennials don’t eat cereal.” Not being a fan of cereal myself, I clicked on it to see if other millennials shared my disinterest in the common breakfast food. Au contraire. Millennials like cereal… it’s just the washing of a bowl and
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By now you’ve probably heard, seen, or used Facebook’s “reactions” icons released early this morning. As the Atlantic describes it: “Someone can now respond to any post on Facebook with a heart for ‘love,’ a laughing face for ‘haha,’ an astonished gape for ‘wow,’ a tearful frown for ‘sad,’ a reddening face for ‘angry,’ or
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Walls have been used successfully for thousands upon thousands of years. They’ve served many purposes, often multiple purposes at the same time. Some were meant to keep people out, others were meant to keep people in. The Great Wall of China is a great example of a successful wall that held the Mongols and other
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