Baseball has long been America’s national pastime. While football and basketball might take up more of our screen time, baseball still holds America’s hearts. What is it that makes the game so attractive? Perhaps it is the classic feel of the sport. Perhaps it’s the freedom from the clock that the game gives to modern
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In recent history, the largest genocides have resulted from tyrannical centralized governments yearning for utopian equality for all. Between 1975 and 1979, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot carried out a genocide in which approximately 2 million Cambodians died, or nearly a quarter of the country’s population. About 60 percent of the deaths were the result of
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Ectogenesis, or artificially gestating babies, is an idea which has a perennial appeal, for good reasons and bad. The film below is a brief snapshot of Dutch research into artificial wombs, or ectogenesis. The main scientist, gynecologist Dr. Guid Oei, was interviewed by the BBC. He estimates that gestating human babies outside the womb is about
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Biologically male cyclist Rachel McKinnon won a women’s world championship Saturday. McKinnon, representing Canada, won gold for the sprint event in the women’s 35-39 age category at the 2019 Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, England. McKinnon set a women’s world record in the qualifying event, the BBC reported. McKinnon, a philosophy professor at the College of Charleston, won
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Many Americans worry about when – not if – another mass shooting will occur, and a Gallup poll from September found that nearly half of Americans fear being a victim of one of these attacks. After the film “Joker” was released, you could see these fears play out. Many announced they wouldn’t see it in
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In a letter to his rival Robert Hooke, Sir Isaac Newton wrote his memorable remark: “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Shedding light on the accumulative nature of scientific progress, Newton knew his ability to formulate the laws of motion and universal gravitation depended on the discoveries made by those
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