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How the Declaration of Independence was Unoriginal 0
- History
- April 5, 2016
The opening of the Declaration of Independence, the document that formally kicked off the American Colonies’ drive to establish an independent country from Great Britain, is a beloved document for most Americans. We should all know it by heart, but if one doesn’t, here it is: When in the Course of human events, it becomes
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Physicist: You Don’t Need God to Get ‘Something’ from ‘Nothing’1
- Science
- April 4, 2016
Believe it or not, there’s been a controversy lately between physicists and philosophers about how to define ‘nothing’. The issue is more important than many think. As you may know, it’s one of the central tenets of the Judeo-Christian tradition that God created the world “ex nihilo”—“out of nothing”—and that, metaphysically speaking, only a divine
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Former Clinton Advisor: Censorship on Campuses Un-American and Selective 0
- Culture
- April 4, 2016
Lawrence Summers, the former treasury secretary to Bill Clinton, wrote a blog in the Washington Post Thursday taking universities to task for the increasing lack of tolerance and civil discourse on campuses. He pointed out that this lack of tolerance is particularly unsettling because the “hypersensitivity” to alleged discrimination seems, well, selective: It has seemed
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Here’s Why Robots Will Never Achieve Consciousness 0
- Science
- April 4, 2016
You know the doomsday movie scenarios: An army of robots we’ve made to serve us decides to enslave or even replace the inefficient, refractory human race, and to that end wages a pitiless war of extermination on us. But is all that mere sensationalism? It would be flippant to dismiss the possibility. As science writer
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Beverly Cleary on Why Today’s Kids Aren’t Free to Roam 0
- Culture
- April 4, 2016
There’s lots of talk these days about how children’s lives are far too structured. Children (the narrative goes) need time to run, play, imagine, and have freedom to do things on their own. Beverly Cleary, famous author and creator of Ramona Quimby & Co. agrees. She recently made several comments on the state of childhood
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U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’0
- Culture
- April 4, 2016
Over the weekend I stumbled on an article in The Harvard Crimson that referenced the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide.” I was amused if not terribly surprised to hear that such a thing existed, but my initial searches failed to turn up the document. It turns out that the University of New Hampshire
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