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Everyone in the Developed World Owes This Man Their Life 0
- History
- April 19, 2016
While living in a developed modern nation comes with a slew of perks and benefits that allow for a certain degree of comfort when it comes to living, one of the unfortunate downsides to having superior technology reveals itself when one looks at those who use it maliciously or for destruction. Nuclear weapons are undoubtedly
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A Holocaust Forgotten 0
- History
- April 19, 2016
If you visit Lisbon today, in the downtown square you can find a half of a stone orb resting on a slab. Within the stone circle is the Star of David, etched with the following: “In memory of the thousands of Jews who were victimized by intolerance and religious fanaticism, killed on the massacre that
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5’9” White Guy: ‘I’m a 6’5” Chinese woman’0
- Culture
- April 19, 2016
There’s another ‘interview-college-kids’ video floating around social media that’s getting a fair bit of attention these days. This one takes place at the University of Washington and involves a 5’ 9” white guy asking questions about his identity to a small group of students. It’s definitely worth a watch. Now, keep in mind that videos
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1939 vs. 2008: What do men and women want in marriage?0
- Culture
- April 19, 2016
Oxford educated economist Max Roser published an interesting—and telling—chart on Twitter recently. Roser, the founder of Our World Data, analyzed the top 18 traits men and women valued in their partners and compared them cross-generationally, from 1939 to 2008. The following values were identified as important and ranked by men or women: Mutual attraction, Dependable
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WTH Happened to Argentina’s Economy? This Chart WIll Show You…0
- Economics
- April 18, 2016
Last week, I noticed that Argentina is laying the groundwork to return to global debt markets. As a point of background, a decade and a half ago Argentina defaulted on a $100 billion obligation, the largest debt default in history. Then, in 2014, it happened again. We’ve become kind of immune to bad economic news
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Why You Should Spend More Money on Experiences Than Things 0
- Entertainment
- April 18, 2016
The pursuit of happiness is something that I’d say about 99 percent of the people on this planet are chasing after. Happiness is at the foundation of why we do anything, right? Every single choice we make in life will be and has been based on how we’re feeling in the moment. There’s a
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Video: Teacher Goes Off On Student Who Claimed He Caught Him Watching Porn 2
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
Via WOWK-TV, a CBS affiliate out of Charleston, West Virginia: A video that shows an East Bank Middle School teacher berating a student was emailed in to 13 News to be investigated. 13-year-old Jeffrey Province says he was the first student into his math class at East Bank Middle School on Tuesday when he
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The Reason Why Universities Don’t Give Their Students Challenging Texts 0
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
In a recent article for The Times Higher Education, a variety of university professors from Great Britain and Australia note a common theme in today’s students: an inability to read anything of length or depth. Take, for example, the following quotes: “Our undergraduates – and postgraduate students as well – seem mainly not to be
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The Logical Fallacy of ‘Hasty Counter-Example’0
- Economics
- April 18, 2016
If you’ve taken a course in “critical thinking”—or even just had an excellent teacher in high school or college—chances are you’ve heard of “the fallacy of hasty generalization.” There’s also the logically converse fallacy, which is equally common but unlabeled and often confused with the first. I call it that of “hasty counter-example.” For the
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