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When Finance and Philosophy Clash 0
- Economics
- September 2, 2016
Few people in our materialistic and avaricious age would consider making money a moral issue. Isn’t it merely one of the bare necessities of life? We speak of a “healthy profit” but nobody speaks about an unhealthy profit. To do so would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Not if you listen to some of the great
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Political Science Needs More Viewpoint Diversity 0
- Education
- September 2, 2016
Would academic political science benefit from more viewpoint diversity? Let’s start with the good news, which is that political science isn’t nearly the worst-off discipline on campus. This is not because its intellectual demographics are so great. Surveys, such as this one, of faculty members’ voter registration data suggest that poli sci does not contain nearly as
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5 Foods That Can Help Depression 0
- Education
- September 2, 2016
Food is one of the most common things we turn to when life isn’t going our way. Something about eating delicious stuff makes the pain or anxiety we’re feeling a little less awful. But, if you’re one of the 350 million people who suffers from depression, you know all too well that it takes a lot more
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Millennials Really Don’t Like People 0
- Culture
- September 2, 2016
Bashing millennials is sort of a national pastime. So I thought I’d join in. It turns out millennials may have an aversion to interacting with people, which could be impacting their ability to find work and, er, mate. Via Salon: According to a survery by Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. — the Cincinnati-based company that operates Big Boy Restaurants
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Sexting a sign of a Committed Relationship?0
- Culture
- September 1, 2016
Why do people sext? Why do they send racy or naked photos or videos and sexually loaded texts? For a short-term hookup, sexting might seem like a direct way to get what you want – or at least try to. But according to my research, sexting is actually most likely to occur within a committed
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Don’t Like Your College Roommate? Sue Her!0
- Culture
- September 1, 2016
Heading to college can be quite a shock; it’s challenging to transition from the comforts and privacy of home to the sheer human density of the college dormitory experience. For most everyone, it’s the least privacy they’ll experience in their entire lives; dozens of eighteen- and nineteen-year-old men and women jammed into cinderblock buildings on
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