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  • Why is ‘Person of Color’ Good and ‘Colored Person’ Bad?

    Why is ‘Person of Color’ Good and ‘Colored Person’ Bad?0

    A person close to me recently used the phrase “people of color” at a work meeting. “Are we supposed to say that?” asked a gentleman in his 50s. A conversation ensued. After several minutes of discussion, the person who originally used the phrase said the group had gone off topic, but she insisted her choice

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  • College Illiteracy is Growing

    College Illiteracy is Growing1

    For a number of years, it was assumed that public education was swimming along, efficiently educating children of all ages. More recently, the products coming out of public schools have caused a troubling concern to leap into the minds of adults: are schools dumbing down the content they teach to students? That concern seems to

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  • ‘Sensitivity Readers’ Are Screening Content for Publishing Houses

    ‘Sensitivity Readers’ Are Screening Content for Publishing Houses0

    • February 17, 2017

    Via the Chicago Tribune: Before a book is published and released to the public, it’s passed through the hands (and eyes) of many people: an author’s friends and family, an agent and, of course, an editor. These days, though, a book may get an additional check from an unusual source: a sensitivity reader, a person

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  • Why Children Ask ‘Why’ (And How You Should Answer Them)

    Why Children Ask ‘Why’ (And How You Should Answer Them)1

    When I was about four years old, I asked my mother one of my first ‘Why?’ questions: ‘Mom, why does Pippo live underwater?’ Mom explained that Pippo, our goldfish, was a fish, and fish live underwater. This answer left me unsatisfied, so I kept enquiring: ‘Why do fish live underwater? Can’t we also live underwater?’

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  • Nation’s Longest Wed Couple Reveals the Secret to a Good Marriage

    Nation’s Longest Wed Couple Reveals the Secret to a Good Marriage0

    Are Jeram and Ganga Ravji the world’s longest-married couple? The Indian-born couple are certainly New Zealand’s current record holders, ready to mark 82 years of marriage in April. On Valentine’s Day they received a special accolade for the second year running from Family First NZ. But it didn’t all begin with Valentines and roses. Born

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  • Five Ways Nanoscience is Making Science Fiction into Fact

    Five Ways Nanoscience is Making Science Fiction into Fact0

    Russian author Boris Zhitkov wrote the 1931 short story Microhands, in which the narrator creates miniature hands to carry out intricate surgeries. And while that was nearly 100 years ago, the tale illustrates the real fundamentals of the nanoscience researchers are working on today. Nanoscience is the study of molecules that are one billionth of

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