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Humility is the Key to Altruism, Georgetown Psychologist Says 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2018
When she was 19 years old, Abigail Marsh swerved her car to avoid a dog and ended up in a car wreck that almost claimed her life. She was saved by a stranger, a man she recalls looked vaguely like the actor Idris Elba. The man ran across four lanes of freeway traffic to save her.
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Why Not Wife-Swapping?0
- Culture
- March 5, 2018
In December, the Supreme Court decided not to hear a case that proposed to extend the Court’s sexual freedom cases to wife-swapping. In Coker v. Whittington, two sheriff’s deputies in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, and their wives agreed to swap spouses, and each deputy began living with the opposite deputy’s wife. Invoking his office’s code of
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Bill Gates Fails Logic While Talking Cryptocurrencies in Reddit AMA 1
- Economics
- March 5, 2018
In a Q&A session on Reddit last week, Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates accused cryptocurrencies of causing “deaths in a fairly direct way,” leading to headlines such as this: “Bill Gates says crypto-currencies cause deaths.” Gates was of course referring to the fact that cryptocurrencies facilitate the purchase of illegal substances on the black market, which sometimes
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Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2018
A school board in Minnesota settled a federal lawsuit filed last week that had accused the district of violating the First Amendment rights of conservative students. Edina High School, which has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the Minnesota’s best schools, came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed the school had implemented
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Millennial Males with Degrees are Getting Crushed in the Workplace (See Chart)0
- Culture
- March 2, 2018
When it comes to men and women in the working world, it’s often assumed that the latter get the short end of the stick. As such, a great deal of time and attention is devoted to helping women break any and all glass ceilings that stand in their way. But what if women have already
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Christians Can Be ‘Secular’, Too 0
- Religion
- March 2, 2018
When most people hear the word “secular,” they associate it with those who either don’t believe in God or don’t attend church and pray on a regular basis. That’s one of the meanings of the term described by Charles Taylor in his monumental work A Secular Age: “… secularity consists in the falling off of
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