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  • Sustaining Love and the Secret to Forty-Year Marriages

    Sustaining Love and the Secret to Forty-Year Marriages2

    Today is a milestone day for my family. It marks yet another rotation of the earth around the sun since my parents said “I do.” I won’t tell you what number they’re celebrating… but I will say they passed the 40-mile marker a few years back. In other words, they’re a rarity these days. Their

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  • Hollywood Rewrites History in Mrs. America

    Hollywood Rewrites History in Mrs. America0

    In an interview about her creation of FX’s new Hulu miniseries, Mrs. America, Dahvi Waller tells Esquire magazine that the idea for the series was born out of her childhood home. As the daughter of a political scientist, she “grew up learning about America’s politics and government” and developed a love for political dramas. Over

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  • Are We Living In a Dystopia?

    Are We Living In a Dystopia?0

    Dystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias – for example, Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” Veronica Roth’s “Divergent,” Lois Lowry’s classic, “The Giver” – were best-sellers even before. And with COVID-19, dystopias featuring diseases have taken on new life. Netflix

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  • The Madness of Competing COVID-19 Projections

    The Madness of Competing COVID-19 Projections0

    As we think about the influence of computerized epidemiological models on our lives these days, we might think back to the old joke, “If you’re a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail.” The hammer, of course, is big data, and we humans are the nails. That is, since we’ve created a digital layer

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  • COVID-19 Lockdowns May Destroy Our Immune Systems

    COVID-19 Lockdowns May Destroy Our Immune Systems0

    What happens when trees are planted in a “perfect” growing environment? Give the trees rich soil, just the right amount of water and no wind, and they grow rapidly, but topple over before they reach maturation. Wind stimulates the tree to grow stress wood, which “helps a tree position itself for optimal sun absorption, and it

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  • Dissent Drives the Advancement of Society

    Dissent Drives the Advancement of Society0

    Tolerance is the virtue of the 21st century. Because of this, we’ve seen a new clamor regarding certain opinions viewed as intolerable in America’s political discourse. What makes for a tolerable opinion? That’s hard to say. Yet the arbitrary standards are quickly enacted by certain gatekeepers as soon as someone expresses an opinion deemed too uncouth for our

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