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For the Love of English, Stop Changing Definitions10
- Culture, Literature
- June 22, 2023
There has long been a debate in linguistics about how to approach language and how language should be used by native speakers. The two traditional schools of thought are prescriptivists and descriptivists. The former are concerned with establishing norms for language and formulating rules and proper ways of using said language. On the other hand,
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A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators2
Ariel Maguire gathered together with other moms in her rural area of the Big Island of Hawaii to create a child-centered educational solution for local families. It was late 2021 and the parents realized that nearly two years of pandemic policies had left their kids behind both academically and socially. There weren’t a lot of
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Pride Goes Before a Fall2
Named for Juno, the Roman goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth, June remains one of the most popular months for weddings. Its temperate climate also wins accolades, as from poet James Russell Lowell: “And what is so rare as a day in June? / Then, if ever, come perfect days.” In our present age, June
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Why Are Scientists Boasting of Creating ‘Synthetic Human Embryos’?2
- Science
- June 21, 2023
A scientist working in Cambridge and California has just announced that she and her colleagues have made a ‘synthetic human embryo’. They took a human embryonic stem cell line and used it to make what looks like an early human embryo. This ‘synthetic human embryo’ has been cultivated past the legal limit for experimenting on
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Why Pediatrician Dr. Renata Moon Stands Against Medical Tyranny10
- Science
- June 20, 2023
The red flags started to fly on the COVID-19 vax for Dr. Renata Moon in 2021. She’d been watching the data on the vaccines, and then she watched the hearings on the vaccine being used in children. “While watching the hearings, I was really appalled,” Dr. Moon said, adding that when she heard Dr. Eric
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Is It True That 99% of Women Believe That Their Abortion Was the Right Decision?2
How do women see their past abortions? The received wisdom is that abortion equals unwanted pregnancy: most women want their abortion and are satisfied with their decision. When women are asked at the clinic to participate in follow-up research (as in the famous “Turnaway Study”), researchers cite figures as high as 99 percent for “decision rightness”, interpreted
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Headstone Dedicated to 110 Aborted Babies Who Were Found in a Medical Waste Box2
Over a year since the remains of 115 babies aborted in Washington, D.C., were intercepted on the way to a medical waste facility, a headstone has been dedicated in their honor. The dedication was announced by Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), whose tweet thread recounted last year’s chilling events and mourned the
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Cops Telling Parents How to Raise Their Kids10
- Family
- June 19, 2023
At last, it was the big day for Tom D’s daughter, age 6: The day she would walk to get a Gatorade all by herself. She wouldn’t have to cross any big streets. And her parents made sure she was well-equipped: They gave her some money, her mom’s phone so she could be tracked and
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Creating Healthy Reading Habits in Our Age of Distraction3
- Literature
- June 16, 2023
Over the years, I have tried to implement well-balanced reading habits in my daily life. There have been times when I was convinced I could get by on the entertaining tales of Neil Gaiman and George Saunders. There have been other times when I held that the literati were supposed to stick to the highbrow
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