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Oxford Expert: 10% Chance Humans Extinct in a Century 0
- Entertainment
- May 18, 2016
I have not been blessed with a refined taste in cinema, with my favorite movie franchise being the Terminator series, especially the second and third, in which Arnie is in peak form. Alas, there’s not enough space here to reminisce, so let’s confine ourselves to the premise for the action. On August 29, 1997, Skynet,
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Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2016
Selves are not found; they are created. That’s the perennially valid message of some ancient Chinese philosophers, according to the book The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, a journalist with a PhD in East Asian history who studied under Puett. Puett, a Professor
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Are Unmarried Cohabiting Parents as Effective as Married Ones?0
- Culture
- May 18, 2016
In recent years, it has become commonplace for young couples to live together and start a family before officially entering their names on the marriage register. But according to a recent chart compiled by Forbes, American couples are not the only ones choosing the cohabitating form of parenthood: “In countries around the world, increasing numbers
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A Beginner’s Guide to Sex Differences in the Brain 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2016
Asking whether there are sex differences in the human brain is a bit like asking whether coffee is good for you – scientists can’t seem to make up their minds about the answer. In 2013, for example, news stories proclaimed differences in the brain so dramatic that men and women “might almost be separate species.”
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3 Non-Medicating Ways to Reduce Anxiety in Our Children 0
- Culture
- May 18, 2016
It’s no secret that anxiety has been on an upward climb in the U.S. in recent years. According to Psychology Today, this is particularly true of young people, for “five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or anxiety disorder as was true half
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18 Ways Lord of Rings is Christian Allegory 1
- Entertainment
- May 18, 2016
Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.” Is it possible to summarize this dimension of Tolkien’s magnum opus in fewer than 600 words? You better believe it! The connections between The Lord of the Rings and Christianity are numerous. There is a connection symbolically between the One Ring and Original Sin and, therefore, between Mount Doom and Golgotha.
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Teacher Faces Termination for BUYING BOOKS for Students 0
- Education
- May 17, 2016
Have you ever wondered why the Nation’s Report Card shows that only 37 percent of America’s high school seniors are proficient in reading? If so, New York English teacher Todd Friedman might have an answer: bureaucracy. According to the New York Post, the award-winning teaching veteran recently got in trouble when he bought a bulk shipment of Frankenstein novels for
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How Tyrants Rise: Plato’s Eerie 2,500 Year-Old Warning 0
- Education
- May 17, 2016
How can the wealthiest people make democracies worse? Plato investigates the question in Book VIII of the Republic. Socrates suggests there that, in pursuit of more and more wealth, oligarchic citizens within the democracy will exploit the lower economic classes, even to the point of undermining their own oligarchic economic interests. In other words, the oligarchs’
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How Leftists Fail at Leftism 0
- Economics
- May 17, 2016
Bernie Sanders thinks that free trade has been disastrous for the American worker. During an interview on Meet the Press, Senator Sanders bemoaned that American workers had to compete against the Vietnamese and said that he disagreed with all of the previously negotiated trade deals. In his opposition to free trade, Senator Sanders may think he is helping
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