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  • How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.

    How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1

    When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or

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  • Here’s What Happens when the Gender-Gap Index Is Adjusted for Bias

    Here’s What Happens when the Gender-Gap Index Is Adjusted for Bias0

    The apparently neutral phrase, “gender inequality,” is not neutrally understood in our society. It normally conjures up women’s lower numbers in male-dominated corporate directorships and STEM professorships or other high-status domains that are in fact accessible only to a sliver of the male population, never mind the narrower female sliver. Social scientists allegedly strive for

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  • Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary

    Why Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates, Was the True Education Visionary0

    When it comes to education reform, there are generally two camps: those who want to improve the existing mass compulsory schooling system through tweaking and tuning and those who want to build something entirely new and different. Not surprisingly, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in the “think different” camp, advocating for school choice and vouchers,

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  • Trump May Be Down, but He Shouldn’t Be Counted Out.

    Trump May Be Down, but He Shouldn’t Be Counted Out.0

    Trump’s lack of popularity is no surprise. Of course, he has brought much of this on himself. With the help of a hostile media, it is understandable why he can’t seem to break the 45 percent ceiling. The result has been predictions of an imminent loss of the White House by Republicans, and that explains

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  • Meat-eating Made Homo Sapiens Brainy and Brawny

    Meat-eating Made Homo Sapiens Brainy and Brawny0

    While it may well be that veganism is “no longer relegated to the fringes of society where for so long it was mocked for being ‘weird’ or ‘extreme’,” it still seems a stretch to say, as a Forbes article did a year ago, that “veganism is going mainstream” and “vegan living is starting to become the norm.”

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  • Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives

    Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives0

    Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power

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  • Why ‘Taxing the Rich’ Falls on the Middle Class Instead

    Why ‘Taxing the Rich’ Falls on the Middle Class Instead0

    As Democrats take control of the U.S. House, taxing the rich inevitably becomes a focus. Progressive candidates wasted no time in denouncing the recent round of tax cuts in their campaigns as a give-away to the rich. Although this rhetoric often polls well among some key demographics, in practice taxation isn’t so simple. A quick

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  • The Immigrants Challenging Europe’s Code of Silence on Islam

    The Immigrants Challenging Europe’s Code of Silence on Islam0

    Over the holidays, two developments in Europe’s immigration and multiculturalism battle stood out particularly. First to France, where there occurred what might be dubbed the Zineb El Rhazoui affair. El Rhazoui, 36, is a French-Moroccan journalist and a former reporter for Charlie Hebdo. Born in Casablanca, she came to Paris for college. She’s engaged in both France and Morocco

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  • The Government Shutdown Exposes Another Reason to Abolish the TSA

    The Government Shutdown Exposes Another Reason to Abolish the TSA0

    The Transportation Security Administration, a federal agency, is facing a no-show problem with employees, as paychecks are put on hold during the partial government shutdown. This is reportedly leading to longer lines and security problems at airports nationwide.According to CNN , Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the

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