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Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2019
Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of
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Incidentally White 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2019
“[T]o speak in general terms of the prototypical Southern conservative we would say first of all that he was not an alienated man.”—M.E. Bradford, “Where We Were Born and Raised” White nationalism has long existed on the borderlands of disaffected conservatism. Among its several denominations is the movement known as identitarianism, which combines the ideology of white nationalism with language
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The Root of Our Troubles 0
- Culture
- August 30, 2019
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on January 28, 2019.) Like you, I’m horrified by the exponential growth in social chaos and totalitarian impulses ravaging our country. It seems as though nothing makes sense, there isn’t a unifying cause tying together the upheaval of American culture. Of course, that’s the nature of chaos,
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9th Grade Reading Lists: 1922 vs. Today 0
- Education
- August 30, 2019
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on September 2, 2016.) Have you ever thought that high school graduates today… well, just don’t seem to know or understand as much as they once did? According to a new research report from the Urban Institute, such a thought is not simply a result of generational
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In Praise of ‘Garbagemen’0
- Culture
- August 30, 2019
When I was twelve my family lived on a small, dry piece of land in rural Texas. Since we lived far outside of any city limits, we couldn’t rely on services like water (we had a well), sewage (we had a septic tank), or sanitation (we had a 12-year-old boy and a 50-gallon burn barrel).
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The College Board Scraps Controversial ‘Adversity Score,’ but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions 0
- Education
- August 30, 2019
It appears that many Americans still believe that merit is the most important factor in determining who will get into our top colleges and universities. On Tuesday, the College Board announced – after receiving considerable criticism – that it will no longer pursue adding an “Adversity Score” to the SAT. In May, the organization announced that it would start ranking
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