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Why I Gave Up Latin, and How It Changed My Life 40
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- December 20, 2024
In the homeschool arena where I grew up, knowledge of Latin was considered the hallmark of a well-educated child. As a mother who now is immersed in homeschool and private school social circles, I hear Latin’s praises sung on a regular basis, especially, and understandably, in those families and groups with classical approaches to learning.
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Friday Comic: All Is Calm, All Is Bright 0
- Entertainment
- December 20, 2024
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Why You Should Talk to People You Disagree With About Politics 23
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- December 19, 2024
If you talked to friends or family about politics over Thanksgiving, you might not have changed each other’s minds. But don’t be discouraged – and consider talking with them again as the holiday season continues. As a scholar of political dialogue, for the past decade I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics. What
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The Antidote to Election Grief? Patriotism.17
- Culture, Politics
- December 18, 2024
As we ride the wave of the tumultuous 2024 presidential election into the next four years, millions of Americans are left wondering: What happens now? Political tensions and the never-ending doomsaying news cycle seem to surround us on all sides. Regardless of which candidate’s bubble you filled in on your ballot, the uncertainty and polarization
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Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America 2
- Politics, Culture, Featured, Religion
- December 17, 2024
Simple, timeless, and unpretentious, “A Charlie Brown Christmas Special” became a holiday tradition since its first airing on Dec. 9, 1965. Its beginnings were simple: a television producer approached cartoonist Charles Schulz with a general idea for an animated special featuring the Peanuts gang. Soon, the idea for a Christmas special, written by Schulz himself,
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Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?4
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- December 16, 2024
A recent study published in Scientific Reports uncovered that the average reader couldn’t tell the difference between AI-generated poetry and human-written poetry. Most of these readers even preferred the AI works to the human ones. In the study, researchers asked Open AI’s ChatGPT-3.5 to write poems in the style of famous poets such as Walt
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Why I Gave Up Latin, and How It Changed My Life 40