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Campus Institutes 24/7 Surveillance of Students 0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
Always ahead of the curve when it comes to getting top academic performances, China seems to have found a new way to make their students serious about studying. Their latest secret to success? Surveillance cameras. As The Guardian describes it: “A university in central China has reportedly been using surveillance cameras to monitor virtually every
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Being ‘Wise’ is better than Being ‘Smart’1
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
David Freedman reports in this month’s issue of The Atlantic that there’s a “war on stupid people” in America today: “As recently as the 1950s, possessing only middling intelligence was not likely to severely limit your life’s trajectory. IQ wasn’t a big factor in whom you married, where you lived, or what others thought of you.
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Why Are Basic Manners Becoming So Rare?0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
Every so often the internet plays host to a viral sensation. One of the latest hits is a twitter post from the UK, which features a snapshot a grandson took of his grandmother’s Google search. The thing that set this Google search apart from the billions of other daily searches? The grandmother prefaced her request
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Ex-CIA Officer: US needs to hear ISIS’ policy concerns 0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
The video featuring former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox is going bonkers on Facebook. We’re talking 61 million views, 1.2 million shares, and 21,000 comments in three days. So of course I had to watch and see what the ex undercover officer had to say. Here’s the clip: I don’t know about you,
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Is Islam Actually a Christian Heresy?1
- History
- June 16, 2016
Is Islam actually a Christian heresy? Was it actually not a “new religion,” but rather, a perversion of orthodox Christian teaching? 1,400 years after Mohammed supposedly received his revelation from the archangel Gabriel, it’s difficult to determine. But nevertheless, it’s interesting to note that this charge has been made by some influential figures throughout history. For
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4 Signs of Low Self-Esteem 0
- Culture
- June 15, 2016
Do you have low self-esteem? If you are like many people, your immediate reaction is probably, no. After all, you don’t beat yourself up mentally and emotionally, you don’t think that you are incapable, and you don’t feel worthless. Well, these are all good things, but they don’t necessarily prove that low self-esteem isn’t a
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