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  • Kindergartners get little time to play. Why does it matter?

    Kindergartners get little time to play. Why does it matter?0

    Being a kindergartner today is very different from being a kindergartner 20 years ago. In fact it is more like first grade. Researchers have demonstrated that five-year-olds are spending more time engaged in teacher-led academic learning activities than play-based learning opportunities that facilitate child-initiated investigations and foster social development among peers. As a former kindergarten teacher, a father

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  • Is the White House Getting Too Friendly with Google?

    Is the White House Getting Too Friendly with Google?0

    If you’ve ever been bombarded with web ads on a topic shortly after Googling or sending an email on the same topic, you’ve probably had an uneasy feeling that Google knows more about you than you’d like to think. Unfortunately, that uneasy feeling may be destined to grow worse given new information released by the

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  • Is the Current Economy Killing People?

    Is the Current Economy Killing People?0

    Is the economy killing people? The headline of a New York Post column this week by economic analyst Betsy McCaughey, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, says it is. Allowing for her political hyperbole, she has a point that calls for careful consideration. As noted elsewhere on the basis of new statistics from

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  • How ‘Rights’ Have Gone Wrong

    How ‘Rights’ Have Gone Wrong0

    Americans love to ascribe “rights” to themselves and others. The number and scope of rights seem to expand constantly—beyond even the long and impressive list set forth by the UN’s Universal Declaration on Human Rights. But what, exactly, is a right?  What is the ultimate origin of so-called “human rights”? Why do those questions matter

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  • Canning is Getting Popular Again

    Canning is Getting Popular Again0

    When I was a little girl, I remember spending a number of summer days sitting and watching my mother load scores of garden tomatoes into jars and plop them into a steaming canner. Later, I would hear her banter with an older neighbor, “I have 30 quarts so far, Bob! How many do you have?”

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  • Apprehensions at US-Mexico Border Reach 40-Year Low

    Apprehensions at US-Mexico Border Reach 40-Year Low0

    The number of Mexican migrants seized near the U.S. border plummeted in 2015, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. Via Pew: Apprehensions of Mexican migrants declined to near-historic lows last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, 2015, according to data released earlier in the year by the U.S. Border Patrol. (U.S. border

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  • Ancient Methods For Curing Depression

    Ancient Methods For Curing Depression0

    If you’ve ever suffered from the condition or know someone personally who has, then you know that it’s one of the most profound and debilitating illnesses one can have.  It leaves you questioning everything while simultaneously caring about nothing.  It leaves you feeling like a husk of your former self. It’s a global epidemic, one

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  • 50-Year Study: Spanking Isn’t Effective

    50-Year Study: Spanking Isn’t Effective0

    A new study has found that spanking does not improve behavior in children in the short term and leads to detrimental behavior in the long term. Via CBS News:  Spanking a child leads to bad behaviors, not the better manners some parents may think a smack on the bottom will elicit, a new study suggests. Researchers

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  • Why Death Today Has No Meaning

    Why Death Today Has No Meaning0

    The most famous work of the German sociologist and philosopher Max Weber (1864-1920) is undoubtedly The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. But one of his most oft-quoted statements comes not from this book, but from an essay titled “Science as a Vocation,” in which he describes the modern world as “disenchanted”: “The fate

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