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  • The Shakespeare Forger Who Duped England

    The Shakespeare Forger Who Duped England0

    William Henry Ireland was born in London in 1777 (or 1775, records vary), the son of a British author and engraver. Ireland came of age during what can be called a Shakespeare craze. Though he was considered a poor student—one teacher deemed him so stupid that he told Ireland’s father, Samuel, not to bother bringing

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  • Study: Women are Biased AGAINST Short Men

    Study: Women are Biased AGAINST Short Men0

    Researchers concluded that short men face statistically significant handicaps in the areas of education, occupation, income, and the ability to attract women. A study released in March, conducted by BMJ, a healthcare knowledge provider based in the United Kingdom, analyzed five criteria: education, degree level education, job class, annual household income, and Townsend deprivation index.

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  • Myth: Medievals Thought the World was Flat

    Myth: Medievals Thought the World was Flat0

    Science got started much earlier than you think. Consider the example of the sphericity of the earth: “There never was a period of ‘flat earth darkness’ among scholars (regardless of how many uneducated people may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted

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  • Christians Need Not View the Secular World as ‘Utter Darkness’

    Christians Need Not View the Secular World as ‘Utter Darkness’0

    • April 1, 2016

    When it comes to Christians’ views of secular society, there have historically been two predominant options. One stresses the radical incommensurability of Christianity and the world—that the Christian view of the world and its values share nothing in common with the secular world. That Christianity is “light” and the world outside is utter darkness. (Many

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  • 8 Highly Insightful Quotes from Neil Postman

    8 Highly Insightful Quotes from Neil Postman0

    1. “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”    2. “At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to

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  • 5 Famous April Fools’ Jokes

    5 Famous April Fools’ Jokes0

    Love it or hate it, April Fools’ Day is here. In fact, Yahoo got an early start yesterday on the dubious holiday with a false report that Trader Joe’s is closing all its stores, causing bargain-hunting food lovers across the country to keen. To get you into the “festive” spirit of the day, the Washington

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  • Why You Should Read Almost EVERYTHING Written by One Author

    Why You Should Read Almost EVERYTHING Written by One Author0

    The overwhelming emphasis in education today is on diversity. No, I’m not just speaking about the ideology of diversity so often attacked by conservatives. In this post, I’m principally speaking about the diversity in teachers and materials. The modern ideal is for students to switch out teachers each year—and beginning in middle school or high

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  • Why FDR was against Public Employee Unions

    Why FDR was against Public Employee Unions0

    In the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the Supreme Court announced a 4-4 vote on March 29, 2016. The tie was due to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. For teachers unions around the country it was a great victory that would have likely not happened. Here is how The New York Times describes

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  • When Socialism Works

    When Socialism Works0

    Because of Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency, many Americans are asking if “democratic socialism” is possible. Can there be a form of socialism that really includes the voices of all the people? In a March 17 feature at FEE.org, economist Sandy Ikeda offered some strong reasons to doubt it (see “‘Democratic Socialism’ Is a

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