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  • How Your New Devices Can Spy on Your Every Move

    How Your New Devices Can Spy on Your Every Move0

    We now have dozens of smart devices in our houses and even on our bodies. They improve our lives in so many ways – from lowering energy consumption in our homes to egging us on to be active. But these smart devices respond to whatever commands they are given: we’ve had security experts demonstrate how cars can be hijacked

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  • A 1st-Century Roman Teacher on How to Raise a Genius

    A 1st-Century Roman Teacher on How to Raise a Genius0

    We often marvel at the handful of students who get top ACT scores and land scholarships at Ivy League universities. And with good cause, for it seems the number of geniuses these days are few and far between. But could we have a lot more “geniuses” in this country than we realize? That seems to

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  • Can You Pass This 8th Grade Spelling Test from 1904?

    Can You Pass This 8th Grade Spelling Test from 1904?1

    With the rise of spell check and auto correct, we’ve let instruction in spelling go to the wayside. But in 1904, proper spelling was an absolute must if one wanted to move on to high school. The following quiz is taken from a Boxwell-Patterson examination booklet. Are you smarter than an 8th grader in 1904?

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  • Why Death Today Has No Meaning

    Why Death Today Has No Meaning0

    The most famous work of the German sociologist and philosopher Max Weber (1864-1920) is undoubtedly The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. But one of his most oft-quoted statements comes not from this book, but from an essay titled “Science as a Vocation,” in which he describes the modern world as “disenchanted”: “The fate

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  • Are Men Just Better at Math and Science Than Women?

    Are Men Just Better at Math and Science Than Women?0

    In early 2005, Harvard President Lawrence Summers suggested that innate differences between men and women might be responsible for under-representation of women in math and science departments at elite academic institutions. The comment set off a firestorm and led to Summers’ ouster the following year. A few months after Summers’ comments, a pair of Harvard

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  • Intellectual Takeout App 2.0 is out!

    Intellectual Takeout App 2.0 is out!0

    A few weeks ago we released an iPhone app for Intellectual Takeout. It was received really well and a number of folks recommended changes, such as sorting by categories and the ability to “favorite” or “bookmark”, to make it better. We listened and got to work on a new version. Download Intellectual Takeout’s App 2.0!  The

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