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  • An Auschwitz Survivior’s Search for Meaning

    An Auschwitz Survivior’s Search for Meaning0

    This year marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Man’s Search for Meaning, one of the most powerful statements of human dignity written in the last century. The author was Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and a Jew, who spent about three years in concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His father, mother, brother and his pregnant

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  • 10 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Everyday Decisions

    10 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Everyday Decisions0

    A cognitive bias is defined as a pattern of thinking that deviates from norm or rationality in judgment. Inferences about other people and situations are often woven in an illogical fashion, and individuals can create their own “subjective reality” from their respective perceptions. Got that? Okay. Let’s take a look at 10 of the most

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  • The Top Thing Parents Can Do to Turn Kids into Successful Adults

    The Top Thing Parents Can Do to Turn Kids into Successful Adults0

    Last week, Business Insider ran an interesting article listing 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a well-adjusted, successful adult. The first thing on the list? “They make their kids do chores.” But if childhood chores are truly a predictor of future success, then it seems the U.S. is about to see

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  • Scientists Finding Ways to Upload Knowledge to our Brains

    Scientists Finding Ways to Upload Knowledge to our Brains0

    The dream that every science-fiction nerd has had since watching The Matrix is one step closer to becoming a reality. Remember that pivotal scene when Neo gets a healthy dose of martial arts knowledge uploaded to his brain by his new buddy, Tank, and then proceeds to fight Morpheus in an epic duel, showcasing his new talents?   Yeah,

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  • Reading to Your Child: This is why it’s so important

    Reading to Your Child: This is why it’s so important60

    If you are a parent or a teacher, you most probably read stories to young children. Together, you laugh and point at the pictures. You engage them with a few simple questions. And they respond. So what happens to children when they participate in shared reading? Does it make a difference to their learning? If

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  • Liberals Are Starting to Notice Liberal Intolerance

    Liberals Are Starting to Notice Liberal Intolerance0

    William F. Buckley once observed, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”  Buckley said that in the 1960s, but it is truer today on college campuses than ever. Even liberals are beginning to notice. A few months ago

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  • Is Depression Even More Biological Than We Think?

    Is Depression Even More Biological Than We Think?0

    For a long time, mental illness was widely misunderstood and stigmatized. What was actually epilepsy was believed to manifest demonic possession; women who were really schizophrenics were cast out as witches. And the many people who were mired in what was once called “melancholy,” and is now called “clinical depression,” were often believed to be

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  • Has Facebook Really Been Suppressing Conservatives?

    Has Facebook Really Been Suppressing Conservatives?0

    It’s a safe guess that readers will not see this story on Facebook’s trending news section, but it’s still worth sharing.   Gizmodo, a popular tech blog, reports that former Facebook employees admitted that “Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential ‘trending’ news section.” Among the

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  • Can You Recognize America’s First Political Cartoon?

    Can You Recognize America’s First Political Cartoon?0

    The “Join Us or Die” snake is believed to be the first cartoon to run in a newspaper in American history. The cartoon was published in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. Historians believe Franklin himself created the cartoon, which depicts a snake cut into eight pieces above the words “JOIN, or DIE.”

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