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  • Want to Know If Your Partner’s Cheating on You? Just Listen to Their Voice

    Want to Know If Your Partner’s Cheating on You? Just Listen to Their Voice0

    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

    The Bath School Massacre: The Worst School Attack in U.S. History1

    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?

    Famous Atheist Wonders: Could We Become Cannibals in the Future?0

    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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  • Chilling Sommers: Another Blow to Discourse

    Chilling Sommers: Another Blow to Discourse0

    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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  • ‘Be Yourself’ Is Not a Governing Philosophy

    ‘Be Yourself’ Is Not a Governing Philosophy0

    ‘Be yourself’ is a catchy Audioslave song. It’s also one of the most ubiquitous clichés in modern society. Like so many clichés, many of us have probably told someone “just be you” or “be yourself” without actually thinking what the words mean. The truth is, “be yourself” can have different meanings and applications. In some ways,

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  • What Roger Bannister Taught Us About Human Achievement

    What Roger Bannister Taught Us About Human Achievement1

    When I was a young boy, one of my most cherished books was One Hundred Greatest Sports Heroes. The pages were filled with heroes’ accomplishments. Often, having overcome great adversity, these sports heroes exhibited great resiliency. Today, I wonder what other mindset traits contributed to their success? Roger Bannister, the first man to run a

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