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  • CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing

    CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing0

    When schools reopen in the U.S. amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they will be even more restrictive than they already were. Schools have long controlled students’ movements and imposed constraints on where they can go, when, and with whom. With virus concerns, those controls will increase in quantity and intensity. NPR recently proclaimed that “disruption

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  • A Robot Parent Can Now Raise Your Kids

    A Robot Parent Can Now Raise Your Kids0

    Parents overwhelmed with caring for their children as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cancel school and all of their children’s other activities can take heart. A new robot arriving this fall will handle your parenting duties. Meet Moxie, the new dystopian product from Embodied, Inc. The sound you hear when this robot boots up in Embodied, Inc.’s advertisement

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  • Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently

    Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently0

    In a 2008 TED Talk, psychologist Jonathan Haidt said the worst idea in psychology is the notion that humans are born as a “blank slate.” Like the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, Haidt was rejecting the notion that the human mind is a blank slate at birth, an idea that can be traced to thinkers from

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  • The Media’s Double Standard on States’ Different Approaches to COVID-19

    The Media’s Double Standard on States’ Different Approaches to COVID-190

    America’s economy is in the early stages of “reopening” after dealing with the coronavirus pandemic for months. It’s a process that won’t be easy, simple, or without hiccups. Meanwhile, many in the mainstream media are being true to form in making it a game of ensuring conservatives and Republicans look like reckless, heartless monsters for

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  • Social Distancing Can Kill, Too

    Social Distancing Can Kill, Too0

    Fear is a powerful emotion: it is sometimes rational, but it can cloud our reasoning. A number of fallacies pervade the COVID-19 debate. One is the fallacy of the missing denominator: we are told that X number of people have died of COVID-19, but we don’t appreciate the size of the population in which these

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  • Faced With Legal Pushback, Governors Are Backing Down

    Faced With Legal Pushback, Governors Are Backing Down0

    On Wednesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz eased restrictions on his state’s lockdown. But the eased restrictions quickly lost the spotlight as the inconsistency with which he issued them took center stage. “Restaurants and bars are integral to what makes Minnesota great,” Walz said, announcing that they could reopen in a limited, outdoor fashion with up

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  • Eisenhower Warned About Scientific Elites Like Dr. Fauci

    Eisenhower Warned About Scientific Elites Like Dr. Fauci4

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address is famous for his prophetic warning about the military-industrial complex: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Eisenhower’s warning is often repeated but

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  • We Were Never Asked to Approve the Shutdown

    We Were Never Asked to Approve the Shutdown0

    Police officers dealing with the public have a fairly savvy approach to persuasion: first ask, then tell, then force. It works because it accounts for the dignity and self-respect of others. Uncertain rookie cops and bullies are the ones who forget to ask, adding unnecessary friction to encounters between citizens and the state. In the

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  • Illegal Aliens Can Begin Applying for Cash Assistance in California

    Illegal Aliens Can Begin Applying for Cash Assistance in California0

    Illegal aliens can apply for direct cash assistance from the California state government as of Monday, marking the implementation of the first relief program of its kind. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced in April the launch of the Disaster Relief Fund, a $125 million coronavirus relief program for illegal aliens living in the

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