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  • A Guide to Dystopian Literature

    A Guide to Dystopian Literature0

    Preface For almost as long as I have had the privilege of reading, I have read dystopian literature. I started with Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, but I soon rather quickly devoured Brave New World, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as many of the works of Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Arthur

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  • Study: People Who Curse Have Better Vocabularies

    Study: People Who Curse Have Better Vocabularies0

    Okay, finally we have good evidence that cursing isn’t some classless, primitive behavior that most think is indicative of barbarism and heathenism. Alright, maybe it’s not that extreme, but there are people out there who think that cursing is unattractive and unnecessary. If you’ve ever been accused of sounding less intelligent because you swear too

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  • Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival

    Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival0

    If the current political campaigns have revealed anything about Americans, it is that they loathe changing their minds. Although a few people may vote for a different political party this year, because the two frontrunners struggle with likeability, most Americans will hold fast to their personal values and beliefs—at least on the big issues, such

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  • 3 Brain Puzzles You’ll Probably Fail

    3 Brain Puzzles You’ll Probably Fail1

    The power of the human mind is astonishing. It’s also highly unpredictable. On one hand it is capable of computer-like power; on the other hand, it is at times easily fooled. I’ve always been fascinated by mind puzzles and thought exams that reveal the quirks in human thinking. Below are three puzzles—perhaps you’ve seen one

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  • Are Parents Being Hoodwinked by the Public Schools?

    Are Parents Being Hoodwinked by the Public Schools?0

    When it comes to public education, parents are quick to condemn the system as a whole, but give a positive rating to their own local schools. As Gallup discovered a few years ago, 75% of parents express satisfaction with their child’s education.   Judging from a new survey released by Learning Heroes, that high percentage of

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  • Progressives Have a Dilemma When It Comes to ‘Gender’

    Progressives Have a Dilemma When It Comes to ‘Gender’0

    There’s a meme circulating among socially conservative Facebook users that poses what seems to be a fascinating dilemma for progressives: It does seem that the two propositions are logically incompatible with each other, yet both are widely held among progressives. But are they really incompatible? Some radical feminists of the “second wave” that arose in

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