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  • Can You Pass This 8th Grade Spelling Test from 1904?

    Can You Pass This 8th Grade Spelling Test from 1904?1

    With the rise of spell check and auto correct, we’ve let instruction in spelling go to the wayside. But in 1904, proper spelling was an absolute must if one wanted to move on to high school. The following quiz is taken from a Boxwell-Patterson examination booklet. Are you smarter than an 8th grader in 1904?

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  • Are Men Just Better at Math and Science Than Women?

    Are Men Just Better at Math and Science Than Women?0

    In early 2005, Harvard President Lawrence Summers suggested that innate differences between men and women might be responsible for under-representation of women in math and science departments at elite academic institutions. The comment set off a firestorm and led to Summers’ ouster the following year. A few months after Summers’ comments, a pair of Harvard

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  • A 1st-Century Roman Teacher on How to Raise a Genius

    A 1st-Century Roman Teacher on How to Raise a Genius0

    We often marvel at the handful of students who get top ACT scores and land scholarships at Ivy League universities. And with good cause, for it seems the number of geniuses these days are few and far between. But could we have a lot more “geniuses” in this country than we realize? That seems to

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  • 5 Ways To Spot a Psychopath

    5 Ways To Spot a Psychopath0

    Every now and then you’ll meet a person who throws you for a loop. You might think they’re insane, maybe sociopathic or simply a narcissist – maybe a combination of all three? Sometimes it can be hard to tell when you’re dealing with one of these predators of the social world. They’re nothing like the

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  • What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean

    What the Bathroom Wars Really Mean0

    It’s understandable that some people are impatient, even disgusted, with all the fuss about which public bathrooms transgendered people get to use. Such feelings arise in part from the natural assumption that it shouldn’t be anybody’s business what people look like in the privacy of the stall.  At least as understandable, however, is the fear

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  • Jesse Jackson’s Surprising Harsh Words for Schools in 1977

    Jesse Jackson’s Surprising Harsh Words for Schools in 19770

    As someone who slides into the backend of the Gen-X generation, my view of the Rev. Jesse Jackson has always been basically the same. My charitable view of Jackson had been that he is a gifted speaker with a great deal of media savvy; that he cares deeply for people, but sometimes offers dubious solutions

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  • Is Propaganda Necessary in the Modern World?

    Is Propaganda Necessary in the Modern World?0

    Edward Bernays is often referred to as the “father of public relations” and was one of the great proponents of propaganda in the 20th century. According to his biography, “During World War I, he was an integral part – along with Walter Lippmann – of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda machine

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  • Former CEO of McDonald’s: $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost Jobs

    Former CEO of McDonald’s: $15 Minimum Wage Will Cost Jobs0

    Ed Rensi, the former president of McDonald’s USA, wrote an article that appeared in Forbes recently in which he argued that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour could cost about a million jobs in limited service restaurants.     Rensi, who worked at McDonald’s for three decades before he became Chief Executive Officer,

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  • Family Members Are Supposed to be a Burden on Each Other

    Family Members Are Supposed to be a Burden on Each Other1

    If you’re family, you burden each other. And that’s a good thing, once one understands what it means. This past weekend, First Things posted on Facebook an article they had originally published in 1991 entitled “I Want to Burden My Loved Ones.” That sounds awful, to be sure. But it was written by one of

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