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  • The Most Influential Scientist You Never Heard Of (Probably)

    The Most Influential Scientist You Never Heard Of (Probably)0

    Gaze at Alexander Von Humboldt’s 1814 self-portrait and you peer into the eyes of a man who sought to see and understand everything. By this point in his life, at age 45, Humboldt had tutored himself in every branch of science, spent more than five years on a 6,000 mile scientific trek through South America,

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  • Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage

    Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage1

    In late September 1579, Queen Elizabeth received a satin bag that contained a parchment sprinkled with gold dust. It was a message from Murad III, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, composed in Arabic script. (A second letter written in Latin was also presented to the queen.) It was the first communication between an English monarch

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  • Hanging Out at the Park May Soon be a Crime

    Hanging Out at the Park May Soon be a Crime0

    Have you ever noticed that it seems increasingly easy for good, upstanding citizens to be labeled as criminals? For example, your fruitcake making grandmother is guilty of a federal crime if she sells her Christmas specialty in “a serving size other than 1 ½ oz.” Your crunchy mama friend who makes her own unpasteurized eggnog

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  • The Great Equalizer

    The Great Equalizer0

    It’s odd that those who are often calling for ever greater equality in all things, are the same who are often the most vocally calling to get rid of guns. Understandably, the thinking goes that if guns are gone then we all have a great and more equal opportunity to live in safety. Perhaps. But

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  • The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read

    The Executioner’s Song: The Best Nonfiction Novel I’ve Read0

    My wife’s sister, we’ll call her Wendy, is a fellow book worm. She likes to pick my brain for recommendations whenever we drop in around the holidays to enjoy their hospitality on “the farm.” (They grow cranberries on a spread in central Wisconsin.)   Suggesting books is a job I relish, but of late it

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  • Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’

    Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’0

    Let’s face it. Almost every child has likely had some type of meltdown in public, causing great embarrassment to both the child’s parent and to other witnesses in the vicinity. But while such disrespectful behavior is embarrassing at age two, it’s downright horrifying the older a child gets. Dr. Leonard Sax recently experienced one of

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