If you would like your children to be creative, don’t give them very many rules. In fact, don’t really make them do much of anything. That seems to be the message of Adam Grant, professor of psychology for Wharton. In a New York Times op-ed, he encourages parents who desire their children to be creative
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Obviously, the 2016 presidential election campaign season has already been a doozy. Donald Trump has shocked all of the usual pundits by climbing to the top of the polls and seemingly is staying there. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is nipping at his heels trying to take the lead. On the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders has risen
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BioEdge reports that legal acts of euthanasia have risen each year since Belgium’s right-to-die law was passed in 2002. 2013 saw the total jump to 1816. In 2014, it was 1924. And the figures for last are 2021 acts of euthanasia. What’s going on? It’s unlikely that the increase can be accounted for by a
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Over the weekend, famed comedienne Carol Burnett received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Before receiving the award, Burnett gave a brief interview to The Hollywood Reporter, offering an interesting critique of the entertainment industry in the process: “Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey
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Parallels in history are never perfect, nonetheless lessons can be learned. In Mediaeval History: Europe from the Second to the Sixteenth Century (1935), Carl Stephenson, a professor of history at Cornell University, provides a captivating account of Rome’s decline in the late 3rd century as seen in monetary policy, taxation, and how the burden was
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In my junior year of college, I had the fortune of studying abroad in Rome for six months, which afforded me enough time to wander the city and visit many of its sites. I of course saw the most visited sites in Rome: the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, the Sistine Chapel, and the
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