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Working Mom: Stop Marginalizing Stay-at-Home Parenting 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2018
The polarized nature of society in recent years has led many to realize the need for rational discussion and a fair hearing of various hot topics. But while many give verbal assent to this need, it often doesn’t happen, and increasingly, Americans are treated to a one-sided view of many issues. According to teacher Laura
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Who Was Mary Magdalene? (And Was She Really a ‘Penitent Prostitute’?)0
- March 9, 2018
Who was Mary Magdalene? What do we know about her? And how do we know it? These questions resurface with the release of a new movie, Mary Magdalene, starring Rooney Mara in the titular role. The question of how we know about her is a relatively simple one. She appears in a number of early
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Want to Know If Your Partner’s Cheating on You? Just Listen to Their Voice 0
- Culture
- March 9, 2018
Picture Morgan Freeman, Donald Trump or Margaret Thatcher. Most likely you can hear their voices in your mind, and the characteristic inflections that they put on certain words, as well as their tone and pitch. Even without listening to the words, when you hear someone speak you can pick up important information about them from
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The Bath School Massacre: The Worst School Attack in U.S. History 1
- Education
- March 9, 2018
On the morning of May 18, 1927, a school board treasurer named Andrew Kehoe blew up a schoolhouse in Bath Township, Mich., killing 44 people (38 children and 6 adults). Another 58 people were injured. Eyewitnesses later said they could hear the explosion more than a mile away. The bombing would have been much worse
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Famous Atheist Wonders: Could We Become Cannibals in the Future?0
- Philosophy
- March 9, 2018
If made more palatable, could cannibalism become a thing in the future? The world’s most famous atheist, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, raised this question in a tweet earlier this week. Dawkins’ tweet was prompted by an article in The Independent which reported that “clean meat”— meat from livestock grown in a laboratory via stem cells—could
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This 1835 Description of Europe Explains Modern America’s Agitation 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2018
The other day I ran across a simple video from The Perennial Plate. The two-minute film featured Bryan Picard, chef and owner of “The Bite House” in Nova Scotia. Like many of today’s trendy restaurants, The Bite House capitalizes on locally grown food served in a gourmet fashion. The unique aspect of Picard’s restaurant, however,
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Illinois Lawmakers Advance Bill That Would Ban Tackle Football for Youth Under Age 12 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2018
A bill banning tackle football for children under the age of 12 has passed out of committee, and is now set to be called for a vote in the Illinois House of Representatives. House Bill 4341, which would create the CTE Prevention Act, passed out of the House Mental Health Committee on an 11-9 vote March 1. State
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How Do We Understand Sexual Pleasure in This Age of ‘Consent’?0
- Culture
- March 8, 2018
Societies tell us a lot about themselves by how they struggle over sex. Different places and generations have distinct sexual battlegrounds. From anti-miscegenation laws to criminal prohibitions of same-sex intimacy and sex work, these contests address with whom we can have sex, when, and under what conditions. At present, debates about the kind of sex
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Chilling Sommers: Another Blow to Discourse 0
- Culture
- March 8, 2018
Among contemporary public intellectuals, Christina Hoff Sommers is among the most attacked by our illiberal Left. In the latest episode, student groups at Lewis and Clark Law School this week protested Sommers’ Federalist Society talk. Prior to her talk, these groups released a joint statement titled “Refuse Fascism in All Its Forms,” voicing concern over
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Working Mom: Stop Marginalizing Stay-at-Home Parenting 0