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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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  • Why Children are Unlikely to Understand these References in Peanut Cartoons

    Why Children are Unlikely to Understand these References in Peanut Cartoons2

    Writing on the ever popular Peanuts cartoon strip in The Atlantic, Jonathan Merritt makes an interesting observation about the prevalence with which Charles Schulz incorporated religion into his comics: “More than 560 of Schulz’s nearly 17,800 Peanuts newspaper strips contain a religious, spiritual, or theological reference. To put this into perspective, Schulz only produced 61

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  • Navel gazing about gender while the world burns

    Navel gazing about gender while the world burns0

    Camille Paglia, an American college professor and social critic, is one of a kind: a feminist who objects to almost every form of feminism known to womankind; a sexual radical who believes in complete freedom of sexual expression, yet a realist who insists that women have to take full responsibility for the sexual choices they

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  • Intellectual Takeout App 2.0 is out!

    Intellectual Takeout App 2.0 is out!0

    A few weeks ago we released an iPhone app for Intellectual Takeout. It was received really well and a number of folks recommended changes, such as sorting by categories and the ability to “favorite” or “bookmark”, to make it better. We listened and got to work on a new version. Download Intellectual Takeout’s App 2.0!  The

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  • How Your New Devices Can Spy on Your Every Move

    How Your New Devices Can Spy on Your Every Move0

    We now have dozens of smart devices in our houses and even on our bodies. They improve our lives in so many ways – from lowering energy consumption in our homes to egging us on to be active. But these smart devices respond to whatever commands they are given: we’ve had security experts demonstrate how cars can be hijacked

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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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