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  • Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke

    Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke0

    What do a gay man expressing his voyeuristic fantasies about intercourse with Dominican sex workers, Pumpkin Spiced Lattés demonstrating inherent White Supremacy, a doctoral thesis on ethical implications of ghosts and scary stories on the internet, and the need for a Feminist epistemology of glaciers have in common? They’re all the topics of academic papers

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  • What Meditation Can Do For Your Brain

    What Meditation Can Do For Your Brain0

    Can meditation grow your brain, make you more compassionate, and slow the aging process? Sounds too crazy to believe, right? Like most, I tended to look at the supposed positive effects of meditation as, at best, a tree-hugger’s wishful thinking, or, at worst, utter poppycock. But recent studies are making me question my dismissal of

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  • Holocaust Survivor Warns How Societies Make Monsters

    Holocaust Survivor Warns How Societies Make Monsters0

    Have you ever wondered how man sank so low as to allow and even enable horrific historical events such as the Holocaust? I recently ran across one answer to that question expressed by a man who endured the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps firsthand. The man, Viktor Frankl, was a rising Austrian psychiatrist when

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  • Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Death of Human Dignity

    Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Death of Human Dignity0

    So much has been said and written about the present Presidential election campaign that many of us are no doubt feeling overloaded with unwanted and ill-tempered debate and are suffering from political-spin-fatigue. This being so, I have no desire to add to the political overload nor do I intend to descend to the sewers and

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  • Is the UN Sweeping Israel’s History Under the Rug?

    Is the UN Sweeping Israel’s History Under the Rug?0

    Israel and the UN have not been what one could call “chummy” in recent history. And they’re not likely to grow any closer after today, either. According to the BBC, UNESCO, the self-proclaimed “‘intellectual’ agency of the United Nations” released a statement on Jerusalem’s premiere piece of real estate “known to Jews as the Temple

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  • Blind Astrophysicist Discovers Way to Listen to Stars

    Blind Astrophysicist Discovers Way to Listen to Stars0

    As a person who regularly gazes up into the darkness of night, musing over the millions of tiny, bright stars that flicker in the sky, losing my eyesight would easily be one of the most tragic things to happen to me. A Puerto Rican astrophysicist named Wanda Diaz Merced grew up dreaming about traveling to

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