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  • Can You Define These Winning Scripps Spelling Bee Words?

    Can You Define These Winning Scripps Spelling Bee Words?0

    Over the last ten decades, students from all over the United States have made their way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. In most cases, only one winner walks away with the prize after spelling a little-known word. And in most cases, the rest of us walk away scratching our heads over the definition of

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  • Psychologist: Having Children Makes Us Unhappy, Kills Romance

    Psychologist: Having Children Makes Us Unhappy, Kills Romance0

    Dreaming of getting married, having children, and living happily ever after. You might be in for a rude awakening, according to psychologist Matthew D. Johnston. Johnston, the Director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York, surveyed decades of research on the psychological effects of raising children and shared his

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  • An Italian Surgeon Preps to Perform Head Transplants

    An Italian Surgeon Preps to Perform Head Transplants0

    Italian transplant surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero wants to perform head transplants. He was recently interviewed by Barry Morgan on CJAD 800 Montreal Radio and said he was hoping to carry out the surgery in China, before the end of 2017. He explained that when the spinal cord of a rat is cut, rather than crushed

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  • Should Women Be Subject to the Draft?

    Should Women Be Subject to the Draft?0

    A recent amendment to the House’s annual defense authorization bill would require women to register for the draft as well as men. Not surprisingly, this issue is one which is hotly contested. The amendment barely survived the committee vote (32-30), and the amendment could be removed from the bill long before it passes the House

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  • Why We Should Stop Referring to the Brain as a Computer

    Why We Should Stop Referring to the Brain as a Computer0

    If you study the long history of science, it’s striking how the thought of each age is dominated by some-or-other ruling metaphor that eventually gives way to another. That’s especially true when it comes to explaining human intelligence. (You can learn how in this book.) Ever since computer technology took off after World War II, our ruling metaphor for the human brain is

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  • Why We Need Alpha Males

    Why We Need Alpha Males0

    My colleague, Annie Holmquist, discovered some statistics about the decline in masculinity that have troubled me since the moment I looked over them. Here’s the key part of her piece: “In recent years, a mildly trending topic of discussion has been the question, ‘Where have all the men gone?’ While there are a number of

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