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Why Americans Refrigerate Eggs and Europeans Don’t 0
- Culture
- February 14, 2017
A few years ago, I bought some fresh eggs from a friend who owned chickens. They were wonderful. I’m not fussy about the topic so I can’t say that I go out of my way to get fresh eggs. I’ll take them when I can get them. However, I’ve long been intrigued by her instructions
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Coming Apart: The Real Civil War is in the Democratic Party 0
- Politics
- February 14, 2017
The Trump ascendency has thrown a monkey wrench into the political dynamics of both parties. But while it creates difficulties for establishment Republicans in their own party, it creates even bigger ones for Democrats. Democrats had hoped that the takeover of Trump would create a civil war in the Republican Party between the free-market, white-collar,
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Nietzsche Wrote Love Poems (And They Are Just What You’d Expect)0
- Culture
- February 14, 2017
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is probably not the first person who comes to mind when you think about romantic love. For most of his life, Nietzsche was a solitary and lonely figure. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche railed against the evils of women, only to recant all that he’d written a paragraph later. He
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Is it Logical to Say that Health Care is a ‘Right’?0
- Politics
- February 14, 2017
In last week’s debate on Obamacare between former presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, Sanders challenged Cruz to say that health care was a “right.” But what exactly does it mean to say that health care is a “right”? If you were to logically analyze the concept of “rights” you would discover that there
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‘Native American’: The Surprising Source of the Term 0
- Education
- February 14, 2017
One could be forgiven for presuming that referring to American Indians as Native Americans is a modern phenomenon, a terminology perhaps ginned up by a professor at Berkeley in the 60s. In fact, the first known reference to Indians as Native Americans is believed to come from none other than America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. In
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Study: Unhappy New Marriages Usually Turn in to Happy Ones 0
- Culture
- February 14, 2017
Valentine’s Day is all hearts and flowers and mushy goodness. In the midst of all this mushy goodness, it’s sometimes a relief to view the day through a lens of reality, such as the one displayed in the meme below: For many parents, that last point is far more realistic than most would like to
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