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  • Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been

    Here’s How Wrong Past Environmental Predictions Have Been0

    Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions. In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, “Civilization will end within 15

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  • Heineken’s New Beer Commercial is Overtly Political—and Totally Awesome

    Heineken’s New Beer Commercial is Overtly Political—and Totally Awesome0

    color:#3C3C3C”>A few weeks ago, before I could catch myself, I said something about missing the “good old days” of beer commercials. color:#3C3C3C”>My comment stemmed from a commercial in which Matt Damon told me I should drink Stella Artois (which I already do) to save the planet. I found the suggestion condescending and a little aggravating.

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  • Education Used to Happen Outside of School

    Education Used to Happen Outside of School0

    Prior to passage of America’s first compulsory schooling statute, in Massachusetts in 1852, it was generally accepted that education was a broad societal good and that there could be many ways to be educated: at home, through one’s church, with a tutor, in a class, on your own as an autodidact, as an apprentice in

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  • Duke Professor’s 1991 Warning about Campus Chaos is Oddly Prophetic

    Duke Professor’s 1991 Warning about Campus Chaos is Oddly Prophetic0

    If one was to judge solely from headlines, it would appear that the only activities occurring on university campuses these days are riots and outrage. As professor Jonathan Haidt notes, it’s as if the university is possessed of a “tribal mind” which views “the demonization of inconvenient research and researchers” as its chief end. Haidt’s

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  • Are ‘Antifascists’ Employing a Crude Form of Terrorism?

    Are ‘Antifascists’ Employing a Crude Form of Terrorism?0

    Days before its April 29 parade, Organizers of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade in Portland received an anonymous message. Via the Oregonian: “You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely,” the anonymous email said, telling organizers they could

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  • 5 Myths about Emotional Intelligence

    5 Myths about Emotional Intelligence0

    In the past few years Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been widely lauded as the most innovative way to measure smarts since Intelligent Quotient (IQ). Harvard Business Review called EI a “ground-breaking, paradigm-shattering idea.” But what does EI mean? How is it useful?  And what myths or misconceptions have surrounded it? Probably the most succinct definition

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  • The March for Science Had Nothing to do with Science

    The March for Science Had Nothing to do with Science0

    A march for science is a contradiction in terms. Marching is an expression of our subjective emotions. Science is an attempt to put emotion and subjectivity aside in order to discover how the world works. If you march for science, you are clearly marching for something other than science, and damaging the standing of science

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  • Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Use El Chapo’s Drug Money to Fund Border Wall

    Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Use El Chapo’s Drug Money to Fund Border Wall0

    Via the Hill: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is introducing a bill to allow assets seized from drug lords, like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to fund President Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Cruz’s bill, the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act, also known as the “El Chapo Act,” is a

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  • No, The Catholic Church Didn’t Punish Galileo for Heliocentrism

    No, The Catholic Church Didn’t Punish Galileo for Heliocentrism1

    If you’re going to pose as being objective, it’s always good to have your facts straight. Scientific American, clearly stung by criticism that the March for Science (which it had helped promote) had been politicized, published a defense of politicized science in an editorial this week. The argument of the author—Ubadah Sabbagh—is that science can’t

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