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  • 3 Reasons Why Kids Should Read Classic Stories

    3 Reasons Why Kids Should Read Classic Stories1

    The BBC just released the results of a poll which asked to name one book every child should read. Among others, the list included Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, and The Bible. But while some of the books on the list were a bit surprising, the response to the

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  • Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime

    Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime1

    In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of a man who used a former co-worker’s password to access information from his previous employer.   Via Reuters: A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday gave the U.S. Department of Justice broad leeway to police password theft under

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  • Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms

    Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms0

    As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words. Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving

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