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When Americans Tried – and Failed – to Reunite Christianity 0
- November 8, 2017
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, a German monk, initiated a split in Christianity that came to be known as the Protestant Reformation. After the Reformation, deep divisions between Protestants and Catholics contributed to wars, hostility and violence in Europe and America. For centuries, each side denounced the other and sought to convert its followers.
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Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today 0
- November 8, 2017
Straw men are easy to push over. So are people’s arguments when we oversimplify them, reducing them to a flimsy caricature of what their proponents actually mean. Hence the name for this particular logical fallacy: the straw man fallacy. Boston College professor Peter Kreeft writes that it “consists in refuting an unfairly weak, stupid or
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How to Prevent Election Hacking? Paper Ballots 0
- November 8, 2017
Barbara Simons is a female computer scientist, which means she’s in a minority in the male-dominated computer field. But she is also a part of a significant minority of tech minds who think that we ought to go back to paper ballots in order to ensure proper security. Simons, a retired pioneer researcher at IBM
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Addiction: Are We All Wrong About Its Causes?0
- November 8, 2017
There is a commercial familiar to anyone who grew up in the 1980s. It involves a white rat in a cage furiously attacking a pill. “Only one drug is so addictive nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it … and use it … and use it,” a raspy voice murmurs, “until dead.” The
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Not just about sex: throughout our bodies, thousands of genes act differently in men and women 0
- November 7, 2017
Most of us are familiar with the genetic differences between men and women. Men have X and Y sex chromosomes, and women have two X chromosomes. We know that genes on these chromosomes may act differently in men and women. But a recent paper claims that beyond just genes on X and Y, a full
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Millennial Women Are Ditching the Pill. Here’s Why.0
- November 7, 2017
In recent days, there has been a fair amount of brouhaha regarding the contraception mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act. While the Obama administration insisted that businesses must offer insurance coverage for contraceptives – even if the business was morally opposed to the idea – the Trump administration reversed this course of action. The
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