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  • People with Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot It

    People with Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot It0

    • February 6, 2018

    From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything. It is even noticeable in the way you speak and express yourself in writing. Sometimes this “language of depression” can have a powerful effect on others. Just consider the impact of the poetry and song

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  • He Was a President Who Understood Principle

    He Was a President Who Understood Principle0

    In his veto of a congressional salary increase, our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, told Congress that, “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” This statement truly characterizes Coolidge for who he was as a man. Not only was he deeply concerned with tax reduction

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  • Father-Daughter Dances Are No Longer Politically Correct

    Father-Daughter Dances Are No Longer Politically Correct0

    Around Valentine’s Day, it’s not uncommon to see pictures of little girls dressed up, smiling, and excited to go with their dads to a father-daughter dance. Such has long been the case at New York PS 65, a public elementary school on Staten Island. But as CBS News reports, the annual father-daughter dance is being

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  • Are You an ‘Educable’ Person?

    Are You an ‘Educable’ Person?0

    America has problems. Make that statement to just about any man on the street and one would find widespread support for it, regardless of the political party with which one identifies. The question is, where do these problems stem from? There are any number of answers to that question, but one of the prominent ones

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  • Why the World Needs Optimists

    Why the World Needs Optimists0

    Optimism (noun): hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something (synonyms: hopefulness, hope, confidence, good cheer, cheerfulness, positive attitude) — This is a love letter to the optimists of the world; the beautiful souls who are brave enough to choose to work for the best possible outcome despite terrible circumstances, to look

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  • Why Hiring the ‘Best’ People Produces the Least Creative Results

    Why Hiring the ‘Best’ People Produces the Least Creative Results0

    While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him at a conference on traffic models. During a presentation on computational models

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