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People Are Moving Faster… and Getting Dumber 0
- Education
- February 2, 2017
We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait”. Those who
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Everything’s Political—Even Your Food Choices 0
- Culture
- February 2, 2017
Last month, National Geographic declared, with the help of an exploitive picture of a pink-clad transgender child, that America is in the midst of a gender revolution. Everything, it seems, is now being looked at through the lens of gender, including our choices about what to eat. According to a recent article in the Washington
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The News Media Needs to Keep You Angry 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
I work for a nonprofit whose activities largely center around digital media. But lately, I wish I could just get away from it all. There’s way too much anger right now in that sphere, and much of it is being driven by news media. The mainstream news media would have you believe that they are
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Obama Solicitor General: Liberals Should Back Neil Gorsuch 0
- Politics
- February 1, 2017
Neal Kathal, an acting solicitor general in Barack Obama’s administration and a law professor at Georgetown, says that liberals should support Neil M. Gorsuch, whom Donald Trump nominated for the Supreme Court Tuesday evening. Via the New York Times: I am hard-pressed to think of one thing President Trump has done right in the last
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Hatred of Trump Reveals the Hatred Within 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
“THANK YOU to our patrons. We look forward to a GREAT 2017” read the chalked sidewalk sign outside a small New England natural foods store near my home. Do you see a hidden message in this sign? Some thought the word “GREAT” was a code word of support for Trump and began to boycott this
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Euthanasia Could Save Canada Millions in Healthcare Costs 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
Perhaps it’s all that New World fresh air and pioneering spirit, but Canada is taking to its new euthanasia legislation like a duck to water. It only became legal in June and already about 800 people have received a lethal injection at the hands of a doctor. Where it is beating the Old World
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Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union is Going Viral 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
A friend shared a video on Facebook a few days ago that featured Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union Address. My eyes popped when I saw that it had been viewed nearly 100 million times (according to Facebook), and then it occurred to me that a different friend had emailed me the same clip
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Are Today’s Schools ‘Supressing Genius’?0
- Education
- February 1, 2017
Ever heard of the phrase “college and career ready”? If so, then you know the goal of American education in a nutshell. But while American public education is an expert at naming this goal, they seem unable to achieve it. That’s according to a new analysis conducted by the Hechinger Report on remedial education in
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5 Non-Political Tidbits about Trump’s Supreme Court Pick 0
- Culture
- February 1, 2017
On January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to take Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court. Despite the pageantry of the announcement, it was difficult not to let one’s eyes stray to Judge Gorsuch and his wife Louise. The two of them looked like a nice, middle-age, average American couple, suddenly
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