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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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  • Mike Rowe is Offended by Nordstrom’s $425 Fake Muddy Jeans

    Mike Rowe is Offended by Nordstrom’s $425 Fake Muddy Jeans0

    We’ve all seen those torn jeans that upscale stores sell for a couple Benjamin Franklins. Well, Nordstrom’s recently took it a step further. Via Mike Rowe: “This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country’s war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society. Behold the latest assault from

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  • Is School Curriculum Preventing Kids from Reading?

    Is School Curriculum Preventing Kids from Reading?0

    When I was five, I nabbed the book my mother was reading out loud and used my fledgling phonics to sound out the captions below the pictures. Since then, reading has been one of my favorite pastimes. But when I was in second grade, my English curriculum dictated a unit study on the Beatrix Potter

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