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Could You Pass Thomas Edison’s Hiring Test? Probably Not.0
- Education
- January 9, 2018
The other day I stumbled across an exam compiled by the famous inventor Thomas Edison. The exam consisted of 146 questions and was used by Edison to screen applicants for executive positions in his laboratory. I began looking through the questions, and to my dismay, realized that I would have fared quite badly had I
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Child Sexbots and Dolls Probably Aren’t the Cure for Pedophilia 0
- Family
- January 9, 2018
Shin Takagi is a pedophile. He has never acted on his impulses, he told the Atlantic in a recent interview, but is attracted to children. This is a problem for Takagi. After reading the article, one senses that he feels an intense desire for minors but also believes children should be protected from people like
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Archbishop Damaskinos: The Greek Clergyman Who Stared Down the Nazis 0
- History
- January 9, 2018
One of the darkest hours in the history of my country, Greece, came on the 27th of April in 1941. German troops entered Athens and brought the whole country under Nazi occupation. It was at that crucial moment that Archbishop Damaskinos chose to shine. Determined to Help Dimitris Papandreou was born March 3, 1891, to
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Why We Should Resist the Urge to Shame People into Conformity 0
- Entertainment
- January 8, 2018
The American psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994) once observed that the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it’s conformity. May believed this was particularly true for modern man, but it would be a mistake to assume the pressure to conform is a phenomenon confined to our age. The individual, Kipling observed, has always struggled to resist
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This Week I Was Denied a Service Because of the Company’s Values—And I’m Okay With That 2
- Philosophy
- January 8, 2018
This week I was denied a service because the company’s values are at odds with the values that Alliance Defending Freedom stands for—values I personally hold. And guess what? I’m okay with that. Allow me to explain. As a writer, I’m always looking to improve my skills. And working for a no-debt ministry like Alliance
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The Instant Pot Can Teach Us a Lot About Capitalism (and the Key to Entrepreneurial Success)0
- Economics
- January 8, 2018
You don’t have to search far to read claims that capitalism is centered on greed and selfishness. For some, the assertion seems self-evident as they read, for example, stories of pharmaceutical companies dramatically increasing the price of important drugs. Those who hold a “capitalists are greedy” usually belief fail to distinguish between crony capitalists—who make
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The Daddy Gap: 1 in 4 Fathers Don’t Live with Their Kids 0
- Culture
- January 8, 2018
Over the last 20 years, I’ve spent a good deal of time working with kids from the inner city. Through this interaction, I’ve grown accustomed to the fact that biological fathers are virtually non-existent in the homes of the children I know. One might say I’ve even grown a bit numb to this sad reality
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The Best Argument for Atheism 1
- Religion
- January 8, 2018
David Bentley Hart is one of the foremost Christian apologists and prose stylists of our age. Perhaps his most popular work is Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which contains a critique of many of the bad arguments against God’s existence put forward by contemporary atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel
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How a Green Day Song Can Help us Understand the Christian Festival Epiphany 0
- Entertainment
- January 8, 2018
“Religion is a bunch of bullshit,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a 2010 interview with vocal atheist Bill Maher. If you’re not familiar with Green Day, they’re the band that taught you to stick it to the man if you came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s. In sixth
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Could You Pass Thomas Edison’s Hiring Test? Probably Not.0