Blog 3 Columns

Feminism is No Longer About Equality 0
- November 9, 2017
Erica Brown went to school one morning in early October wearing a slogan on her shirt: “The future is female”. When a female teacher at Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) pointed out that her message might make some of the boys feel uncomfortable, Brown’s response was to complain to her parents, and the
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Does Watching Porn Really Shrink Your Brain?1
- November 9, 2017
A few years ago, a couple of German scientists—psychiatrist Jürgen Gallinat and psychologist Simone Kühn—published a paper that spooked men across the planet (and some women, too). The researchers, who were analyzing brain structures and pornography consumption in men, noticed something striking: men who watched high amounts of porn had less grey matter in certain
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An English Teacher Explains 5 Reasons Today’s Students Can’t Write 0
- November 9, 2017
One of the interesting things about working at Intellectual Takeout is hearing the personal experiences of readers regarding issues we raise and discuss in our articles. A more recent example of this is the individual who wrote that he had gone back to college as a middle-age student seeking greater career advancement. While there, a
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Why the Straw Man Fallacy Is Everywhere Today 0
- November 8, 2017
Straw men are easy to push over. So are people’s arguments when we oversimplify them, reducing them to a flimsy caricature of what their proponents actually mean. Hence the name for this particular logical fallacy: the straw man fallacy. Boston College professor Peter Kreeft writes that it “consists in refuting an unfairly weak, stupid or
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When Americans Tried – and Failed – to Reunite Christianity 0
- November 8, 2017
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, a German monk, initiated a split in Christianity that came to be known as the Protestant Reformation. After the Reformation, deep divisions between Protestants and Catholics contributed to wars, hostility and violence in Europe and America. For centuries, each side denounced the other and sought to convert its followers.
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What Happens When You Ask Unschoolers ‘What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?’2
- November 8, 2017
My daughter is a baker. When people ask her what she wants to be when she grows up, she responds breezily: “A baker, but I already am one.” You see, with unschooling there is no postponement of living and doing. There is no preparation for some amorphous future, no working toward something unknown. There is
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University of Maryland Chief of Staff: College is ‘Not a Home’!0
- November 8, 2017
One never knows these days what to expect out of college campuses. It seems that every time one turns around, somebody’s sensitivity is being offended. Such was the case the other week at the University of Maryland at College Park. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, college officials met to discuss ‘hate symbols’ and
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Psychotherapist: 10 Reasons American Teens Are More Anxious Than Ever 0
- November 8, 2017
In October the New York Times asked a question: “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?” Writing at Psychology Today, psychotherapist Amy Morin offers 10 reasons: 1. Electronics offer an unhealthy escape. 2. Happiness is all the rage. 3. Parents are giving unrealistic praise. 4. Parents are getting caught up in
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How to Prevent Election Hacking? Paper Ballots 0
- November 8, 2017
Barbara Simons is a female computer scientist, which means she’s in a minority in the male-dominated computer field. But she is also a part of a significant minority of tech minds who think that we ought to go back to paper ballots in order to ensure proper security. Simons, a retired pioneer researcher at IBM
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Feminism is No Longer About Equality 0