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  • One Simple Way to Raise Children to be Leaders

    One Simple Way to Raise Children to be Leaders2

    Whether they admit it or not, almost every parent entertains visions of greatness for their child from the moment he is born. He’ll be a businessman, or a college professor, or maybe even the President of the United States. Unfortunately, it’s often hard to move beyond daydreams and work toward making those imaginations become reality.

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  • Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education

    Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education0

    What does an expert in learning think about how to learn math (and other things for that matter)? Barbara Oakley is the author of A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) and Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential; she is also a distinguished

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  • ‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns

    ‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns0

    The television sitcom Cheers has always been one of my guilty pleasures.  Next to Seinfeld, I consider it the best sitcom of my lifetime.   After about a 20-year hiatus, I recently started watching Cheers reruns on Netflix. A few nights a week, on nights when my wife puts the kids to bed, I watch

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  • Why Trump will likely win reelection in 2020

    Why Trump will likely win reelection in 20200

    Most Americans don’t like Trump. Trump will most likely be reelected in 2020. How can both of these statements be true? Here’s how: Even when people are unhappy with a state of affairs, they are usually disinclined to change it. In my area of research, the cognitive and behavioral sciences, this is known as the

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  • The War on Free Speech is Just Beginning0

    Will the war on freedom just peter out? No. Let’s look at four reasons why not. People are fed up with political correctness. No guff. Bill Maher is. Clint Eastwood is. We are told that Canadians are fed up too. But so? Two Canadian literary magazine editors were forced to resign from their national publications this month because they do not

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  • Millionaire to Millennials: If You Want to Own a House, Stop Buying $19 Avocado Toast and $4 Coffee

    Millionaire to Millennials: If You Want to Own a House, Stop Buying $19 Avocado Toast and $4 Coffee0

    Via the Guardian: An Australian millionaire and real estate mogul has advice for millennials struggling to purchase a home: stop buying avocado toast. Tim Gurner, a luxury property developer in Melbourne responsible for over $3.8bn in projects, is facing heat for comments he made on 60 Minutes in Australia, implying that young people can’t afford

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  • City: ‘If something is not permitted it is prohibited.’

    City: ‘If something is not permitted it is prohibited.’0

    Should Americans have a right to garden in their own yards? If you looked at this question, shook your head, and answered, “Of course! Why would we not?” then it would seem there is still some common sense left in the world. Unfortunately, that common sense doesn’t always extend to the powers that be, and

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  • Camille Paglia: Neo feminism teaching women to live in ‘a permanently juvenile condition’

    Camille Paglia: Neo feminism teaching women to live in ‘a permanently juvenile condition’0

    Not long ago, feminist scholar and activist Camille Paglia made waves when she excoriated those who insist on the use of genderless pronouns: “How dare you, you sniveling little maniac, tell us how we’re going to use pronouns. Go take a hike!”  Now Paglia is back with some more surprising – and politically incorrect –

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  • Are You Overscheduling Your Child?

    Are You Overscheduling Your Child?0

    I often have a hard time saying “no” when it comes to social invitations and new opportunities.  It’s probably because of a fear of missing out or simply wanting to please others. This tendency has become increasingly problematic since becoming a parent. My 4 and 6-year-old daughters are bombarded with activity requests, birthday party invitations,

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