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Why Children Should be Encouraged to Build Things 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Several years ago, a little boy I know set out to make and enter a project in the state fair. He gathered his supplies, came up with a design, and forged a hand-crafted knife – blade and all. While his creation was quite impressive, the state fair was not amused and refused to let him
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How the Clock Changed the World 2
- History
- March 14, 2016
When people reflect on how technology has changed our lives, they usually think about the car, the television, or the computer. But according to historian and philosopher Lewis Mumford, it’s really the invention of the mechanical clock that changed everything. In his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization, Mumford laid out a fascinating argument why “the
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The Best and Worst Story you will Read Today 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2016
An older and troubling yet uplifting inside story of an abandoned assisted living home comes from NPR’s StoryCorps: “When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go. The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except
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Would Mutual Aid Societies Revive Healthcare AND Community?0
- Culture
- March 14, 2016
It’s been six years this month since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Unfortunately for many Americans, the Affordable Care Act has turned out to be anything but affordable, and many are seeing their premiums and monthly payments continue an upward climb. Due to rising costs and qualms over government health insurance, increasing
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Professor: Children’s Imaginations Are Being Destroyed 0
- Culture
- March 14, 2016
Driving by a house with several children romping around in the front yard wrestling one another or running around in absurd dress-up costumes almost never fails to make me smile. Unfortunately, those smiles are few and far between because this scene now rarely occurs. Where has the imagination of children gone? Providence College professor Anthony
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Is Comfort Dulling Americans’ Minds?0
- History
- March 14, 2016
Ancient Greece represents a time of almost unparalleled intellectual creativity in world history. It had Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Solon, Herodotus, Archimedes, and Hippocrates. But according to many authors, what Ancient Greece did not have during its Golden Age was an obsession with comfort. And this fact may have played a large role in
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