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  • Why Are Some Academics Angry?

    Why Are Some Academics Angry?0

    A college professorship sounds like a golden gig to most people: Read books at your leisure, meet with adoring students, teach a few classes, and otherwise lounge in ivy-covered ivory towers commensurate to your lofty status… To the contrary!  Having been an adjunct lecturer in a major university, I can confirm that professors often work

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  • 16 Things You Didn’t Know About Julius Caesar

    16 Things You Didn’t Know About Julius Caesar0

    On July 13, 100 B.C., Julius Caesar was born in Rome to a patrician family of relatively modest means. During his formative years, Rome was transforming and expanding. Caesar, perhaps seeing the success of his uncle, the statesman and general Gaius Marius, set his eyes on a career in the Roman military. He spent much

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  • Labor Unions are Now Filing Grievances against Goats

    Labor Unions are Now Filing Grievances against Goats0

    A major union is rallying its supporters to battle the latest job-stealing enemy: goats. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the University of Michigan have had a well-established working relationship with each other for years. But this is largely because the labor union holds a contract with the school, barring

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  • Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off

    Why Today’s Kids Need More Time to Goof Off0

    Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is known world over for its deep lessons on racism and equality. In focusing on these lessons however, it’s easy to breeze by the simple, lighthearted picture with which the book opens, namely, that of children goofing off and having a good time in the summer. That lesson

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  • Cherishing Stuff with a Photo Can Help You Let Go of It

    Cherishing Stuff with a Photo Can Help You Let Go of It0

    Picture your favorite childhood stuffed animal. Are you clinging to it even though neither you nor anyone else in your household has played with that creature in years? If so, you’re not alone. Parting with possessions we don’t need is a struggle for many Americans. We have an average of at least 50 unused items in

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  • Millennial Pet Owners: Stop Calling Yourselves ‘Dog Moms’

    Millennial Pet Owners: Stop Calling Yourselves ‘Dog Moms’9

    I love dogs. I grew up with dogs who became part of our family, so it was no surprise to anyone that I got a dog when I moved away from home to Philadelphia. My husky, Annika, became my sidekick, and it has been great to have her company and an excuse to explore a new

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