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  • Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America

    Charlie Brown’s Christmas Message to America2

    Simple, timeless, and unpretentious, “A Charlie Brown Christmas Special” became a holiday tradition since its first airing on Dec. 9, 1965. Its beginnings were simple: a television producer approached cartoonist Charles Schulz with a general idea for an animated special featuring the Peanuts gang. Soon, the idea for a Christmas special, written by Schulz himself,

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  • Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?

    Are AI Poems Better Than Human-Written Poems?4

    A recent study published in Scientific Reports uncovered that the average reader couldn’t tell the difference between AI-generated poetry and human-written poetry. Most of these readers even preferred the AI works to the human ones. In the study, researchers asked Open AI’s ChatGPT-3.5 to write poems in the style of famous poets such as Walt

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  • To V*ccinate or Not? Seeking Cooler Heads in the V*x Conversation

    To V*ccinate or Not? Seeking Cooler Heads in the V*x Conversation4

    Would you like to spend your evenings pulling out your hair? Do you have a sadistic streak? Have you ever considered Chinese water torture as a pastime? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then researching both sides of the vaccine debate may be just the thing for you. Talk about a contentious and

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  • Friday Comic: Gift Guessing0

    Credit: OwenComics (store) X: @owenbroadcast Instagram: @owenbroadcast Save this article to favorites

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  • Against Scolianormativity

    Against Scolianormativity2

    Scolianormative (adj.): The assumption that behaviors defined by institutionalized schooling are “normal.” An assumption that became pervasive in industrialized societies in which institutionalized schooling became the norm that resulted in marginalizing and harming millions of children. Once society began to question scolianormativity, gradually people began to realize that the norms set by institutionalized schooling were

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  • Yes, My Religion Informs How I Vote

    Yes, My Religion Informs How I Vote4

    A month or two ago, a pro-choice classmate of mine decided to put words in my mouth. In a friendly discussion about abortion in America, he responded to me with, “Well, you’re just anti-abortion because you’re Catholic.” My jaw dropped. “But I’m not,” I said. “I’m pro-life because life begins at conception.” He did not

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  • Axios Butchers the History of Thanksgiving

    Axios Butchers the History of Thanksgiving1

    On the day before Thanksgiving, Axios published an article titled “Thanksgiving’s Troubled History” by Russell Contreras, the “Justice and Race reporter at Axios.” Citing “a new generation of historians,” Contreras declares that “Thanksgiving in the United States is based on a mythical feast between the Wampanoag people and Mayflower Pilgrims” and that “the holiday’s real

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  • Christmas After Communism: One Man’s Story

    Christmas After Communism: One Man’s Story3

    During the holiday season I usually come across at least one social media picture of families seeking to give back. This can be through serving a meal at a homeless shelter, volunteering at Feed My Starving Children, or even packing a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child. That last activity has become a longstanding tradition in

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  • Fathers, Make Your Families Happy

    Fathers, Make Your Families Happy1

    Would a father who focused only on making his family as happy as possible be an overly indulgent one? I think the answer depends both on the definition of happiness and the method by which the father promotes this happiness. We’ve all observed fathers who cannot stand the sight of their children’s tears and cave

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