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Preschoolers Increasingly Using Tablets without Supervision 0
- Culture
- November 2, 2015
Last December, while spending time with a classroom full of inner-city children, I struck up a conversation with 4-year-old twin boys. They proudly told me that they had each received a tablet for a Christmas gift. I was duly impressed – and alarmed. According to today’s New York Times, my alarm was justified, but my
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6 Distressing Characteristics of the “Mass Man”0
- History
- November 2, 2015
One of the most noteworthy critics of the modern age was the German academic (with a not-so-German name) Romano Guardini (1885-1968). Among others, his thoughts on technology and the environment have influenced Pope Francis, as was apparent in his recent encyclical Laudato Si. In his essay The End of the Modern World, Guardini claims that the rise
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“More Truly Educated Out of College Than In It.”0
- Education
- November 2, 2015
It seems you can’t turn around these days without seeing some type of article or list describing the top 10 ways to get into the best college or grad program. Such a mentality stems from the idea that true education is gained from an institution or organization. But by continually enforcing the idea that true
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This 1960s Greek Village Was Cut Off from the Modern World 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2015
In Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village, anthropologist Juliet du Boulay offers a glimpse of how rural Greek people (and most people in the world) thought and lived before modernity had fully absorbed them. Du Boulay lived in a village known by the pseudonym of “Ambéli” for two years in the late 1960s. Though much of
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They Starved, We Bought Snickers 0
- History
- October 30, 2015
How far we’ve come as a country can be seen in the incredible contrast found at the Donner Memorial State Park, where some of the members of a pioneer group survived the winter of 1846/1847 by cannibalizing their deceased comrades. If you’re not familiar with the Donner Party, you can gain a bit of background
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The Road to Serfdom: 15 Quotes 0
- Economics
- October 30, 2015
F.A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944 as a response to the Russian communists and the German and Italian fascists of the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s, as well as to those in other parts of the West that might be tempted by the allure of a society based on total security or
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The Pope’s Famous 4 Predictions About Contraception 0
- October 30, 2015
Most people today accept contraception as a given of modern sexual relations, and just about every Christian church and denomination today believes its use is acceptable in some if not all cases… except the Roman Catholic Church. But the general Christian acceptance of contraception is a fairly recent development. Up until 1930, all major
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Russell Brand: Porn is Bad 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2015
According to Russell Brand, porn today must be “dizzying and exciting but corrupting in a way that we can’t even think about” for a young man. We’re a bit shocked that such a statement would come from the actor given some of his acting roles. Brand goes on to say why he doesn’t think it’s
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10 Quotes from the Most Popular TED Talk EVER 0
- Education
- October 30, 2015
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” remains the most popular TED talk ever. That should tell us something about the public’s desire to transform today’s education system. Here are 10 thought-provoking quotes from it: 1. “If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring
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