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Shakespeare: More Beneficial than Self-Help Books?0
- Culture
- July 21, 2016
CBS News recently ran a brief segment featuring Ken Ludwig, a playwright and author of How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare. During the course of the interview, Ludwig explained that his purpose in writing the book was not only to get kids reading Shakespeare, but also to fill in the Shakespearean holes of the parents
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Why You Should Watch this Censored Nazi Propaganda Film 0
- History
- July 21, 2016
A marvelous feature of the digital age is that we have opportunities to see films that were nearly impossible to view even decades ago. In some cases, the films were banned. This was the case with the 1935 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will.” Despite its palpable evil, it was one of the great
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10 Phrases We Use Today That Originated In The Middle Ages 0
- Education
- July 21, 2016
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U.S. Students Win the 2016 Math Olympiad 0
- Education
- July 21, 2016
Earlier this week, news came out that a group of U.S. students had won the 2016 International Math Olympiad. As the Washington Post noted, such news is surprising, particularly since the U.S. team was the reigning champion from 2015, a title they finally snagged after losing for 21 years. I was encouraged reading about the
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6 ways Stoicism can help today’s leaders 0
- Western Civilization
- July 21, 2016
With the increasing swirl of interest around mindfulness, resilience and innovation we can’t forget that there are many who have trodden this path before us with important lessons we can borrow. Stoicism is the branch of ancient western philosophy that focuses on mindfulness, resilience, creativity and more, all of which allows us to flourish and
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The Origin of the Term ‘Dark Ages’1
- Culture
- July 21, 2016
With threats both without and within, some have surmised that the West is on the cusp of a new Dark Age. We at Intellectual Takeout have wondered the same thing ourselves. Traditionally, the term “Dark Age” has been assigned to the period that followed the Fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. It
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