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  • Why England’s Reading Scores Are Soaring While the U.S. Lags Behind

    Why England’s Reading Scores Are Soaring While the U.S. Lags Behind0

    There’s been increasing alarm in recent years as many Americans have realized that their children don’t know much in the areas of history, civics, geography, and writing. In retrospect, it appears that the emphasis placed on the core subjects of reading and math by various education laws such as No Child Left Behind may be

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  • Why Aren’t There More Female Politicians?

    Why Aren’t There More Female Politicians?0

    In a country that began with actual “Founding Fathers,” it’s easy to buy into the mantra that the patriarchy is a dominant force in American society and thus needs to be minimized. Many feminists now believe women have been oppressed for too long, and it’s time for them to fight back. Consider a recent tweet

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  • New Hippocratic Oath Calls on Physicians to Respect ‘Autonomy and Dignity’ of Trans Patients

    New Hippocratic Oath Calls on Physicians to Respect ‘Autonomy and Dignity’ of Trans Patients0

    The World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly recently approved revisions to the Declaration of Geneva, the modern physician’s pledge that succeeded the Hippocratic Oath. The revisions, the most expansive makeover of the declaration in its 70-year history, followed two years of information gathering, interviews with medical experts, and internal deliberations. Among the changes the WMA

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  • How to Fight Bullshit at Work (and Keep Your Dignity and Job)

    How to Fight Bullshit at Work (and Keep Your Dignity and Job)0

    After getting lost in the conference hotel, I finally located the ‘creativity workshop’. Joining the others, I sat cross-legged on the floor. Soon, an ageing hippie was on his feet. ‘Just walk around the room and introduce yourself,’ he said. ‘But don’t use words.’ After a few minutes of people acting like demented mimes, the

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  • Harvard Student Whose Father Escaped Communism Has a Message for Her Fellow Students

    Harvard Student Whose Father Escaped Communism Has a Message for Her Fellow Students0

    Laura M. Nicolae has a message for her fellow students at Harvard: think twice before embracing communism. Nicolae, an applied mathematics major in the ’20 class, recently shared in the Crimson the story of how her father arrived in the United States. And it’s harrowing stuff: “In 1988, my twenty-six-year-old father jumped off a train

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  • Bud Light’s ‘Dilly Dilly’ Commercial is Ingenious

    Bud Light’s ‘Dilly Dilly’ Commercial is Ingenious0

    Sometimes a commercial appears that both shatters a paradigm and creates a popular meme that truly sticks. The genius is undeniable but extremely hard to manufacture from a formula. It just works. Think of “I’d like to teach the world to sing,” “Where’s the beef?”, “Mikey likes it!”, and “Do you have any Grey Poupon?”

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