If you know anything about the colonization of Africa in the 1800s, you might be wondering about where “Cecil the Lion” got his name. You see, there was an Englishman named Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) who left quite the mark on the African continent. You might know his name because of the foundation he left which
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Below is the oft-quoted line from Will Durant, which appears in the Epilogue to volume 3 of his Story of Civilization. You may remember it from the beginning of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto. Here’s the context of the passage: Save this article to favorites
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File this under the “whodathunk?” category… My kids are obsessed with the number “Googol,” i.e., 10^100, or, a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It always ends up being the climax of their silly enumeration back-and-forths (“Oh yeah, well you have a googol of [insert unpleasant thing]!”) But when we looked into it, we were surprised
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In high school, you were a voracious reader, had argumentation and writing skills superior to most of your classmates, and received good grades. But your standardized test scores were mediocre at best, and they hurt your college applications. For people like you, there may be more hope on the future college admissions front. According to
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Below is a white privilege survey that was administered to teachers in the St. Paul Public Schools district (MN) by Pacific Educational Group—a consultant for many public school districts around the country. We’re curious to hear your thoughts on it… Save this article to favorites
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From the Foreword of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, in which he compares the dystopian visions of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to
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