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  • How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular

    How Arrogance Makes Obnoxious People Popular0

    Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, has no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from the rainforest that surrounds them, and they garden and hunt for their

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  • How Corn Kernels Could Hold the Key to Beating Cancer

    How Corn Kernels Could Hold the Key to Beating Cancer0

    Driving down a country highway in the Midwest can seem an endless ribbon flanked by green walls of corn, neatly planted in stately rows. But who would guess that a plant that feeds a planet might hold clues that could help us better understand, or perhaps cure, insidious human diseases? Recent research from Dr. Mark

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  • Professor: The Reason College Students are ‘Helpless’ is…

    Professor: The Reason College Students are ‘Helpless’ is…0

    In the last year or so, a handful of college faculty have been going public about the problems they see in the latest generation of students. First it was the college president who described his students as “day care” kids victimized over every little offense. This viewpoint was seconded by Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, who suggested

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  • When Euthanasia Becomes Murder

    When Euthanasia Becomes Murder0

    In the Netherlands an elderly woman suffering from dementia was held down against her protests as a lethal injection was administered by a doctor. In the days before her “euthanasia” she repeatedly said, “I don’t want to die.” The doctor was cleared of wrongdoing. Another elderly woman in the Netherlands was euthanized due to her

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  • Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever

    Amy Schumer’s Crudity is Boring, Not Clever0

    In the last several years, comedienne Amy Schumer has burst on the national scene and enjoyed a decent amount of success. Like many of today’s comedians, Schumer’s humor capitalizes upon crass and crude subjects, which the Los Angeles Times recently described in the following way: “Schumer’s renown for obliterating narrow ideas about female sexuality, double

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  • Advice on Manhood Andrew Jackson Received from His Dying Mother

    Advice on Manhood Andrew Jackson Received from His Dying Mother0

    In 1815, as Andrew Jackson stood before his men a war hero following the Battle of New Orleans, he spoke of his mother, who had been dead three and a half decades. “Gentlemen, I wish she could have lived to see this day. There never was a woman like her,” Jackson intoned, according to historian

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