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Is Everything Old Bad?0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
National Review recently ran a piece headlined “Everything Old is Bad, a Continuing Series at Vox.” In that piece, author Charles C. W. Cooke took the left-leaning website to task for claiming that the requirement that a President of the United States be 35 or older is nothing more than a “weird” historical hangover “handed
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Can Your Heart Grow Three Sizes? A Doctor’s Take on ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
At the beginning of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the green, pot-bellied, feline-faced Grinch is a bitter, foul-tempered misanthrope whose heart is “two sizes too small.” In the middle of the story, he plots to steal all the Christmas gifts in Whoville and toss them from a cliff. At the end, having learned
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Too Busy? You Might Have Action Bias.0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
The greeting starts out routine. You bump into a friend at the grocery store and they ask how you are. You find yourself thinking you aren’t that busy, at least, not enough to describe how you are. Things have settled down and work and family are status quo. Do you hesitate to say it… that
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Watch the Growth of the World’s 10 Largest Economies over the Last 60 Years 0
- Economics
- December 17, 2018
In economics, GDP (gross domestic product) is defined as “the total value of goods produced and services provided” in a nation in a given year. If you’re not a student or teacher of economics, you probably don’t hear a lot about GDP unless it happens to be trending the wrong way and a nation finds
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Just Because We Can Create Genetically Modified Babies Doesn’t Mean We Should 0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos who were successfully nurtured to birth, and the worldwide scientific community roundly rejected this experiment as a violation of ethics. In turn, the Chinese government condemned the doctor and called for an immediate investigation. At issue is
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What Will and Kate’s Christmas Card Teaches about Marriage and Family 0
- Culture
- December 14, 2018
‘Tis the season for families to send Christmas greetings, and the British royals are no exception. The Kensington Palace Twitter account released the Christmas photos of the various branches of the royal family, and as The Telegraph explains, the difference between Will and Kate’s and Harry and Meghan’s photos is rather striking: “The Duke and
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Is Everything Old Bad?0