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  • Are Today’s Schools Killing Students’ Desire for Learning?

    Are Today’s Schools Killing Students’ Desire for Learning?0

    We’ve heard all the stories. Homeschoolers consistently get higher ACT scores than public school students. Homeschoolers score above average on standardized tests. Homeschoolers have “higher quality friendships and better relationships with their parents and other adults.” With numbers like these, it’s no wonder that homeschooling saw an increase of over 60% in the last decade.

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  • Is Science Figuring Out How to REVERSE Death?

    Is Science Figuring Out How to REVERSE Death?0

    The Uniform Determination of Death Act (yes, there is such a thing) says there are two ways people in the U.S. can be declared dead. 1) The brain dies; or 2) one experiences an “irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions.” Thinkers as early as Galen (129 A.D. – 216 A.D.) understood the brain to be the

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  • Why Will and Kate Dress Their Kids in Traditional Clothing

    Why Will and Kate Dress Their Kids in Traditional Clothing0

    In case you haven’t noticed, the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday has provided all of us curious commoners with plenty of new pictures to gaze at and analyze. None more so than those which include Will and Kate’s cute kids, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. Commenting on the picture of the Queen surround by

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  • Are Fathers Becoming Less Manly?

    Are Fathers Becoming Less Manly?1

    Last week I took all three of my little girls into a supermarket, where another man noticed me pushing a cart around with two kids in it and wearing a third one on my chest in a baby harness. “Superdad!” he called out, with a thumbs-up. I was rather proud of that since being the

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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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