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Friday Comic: Symbiotic Relationship0
- Entertainment
- October 20, 2023
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25 Traditionalist Books to Read With Your Children2
- Literature, Family
- October 19, 2023
One of the best things parents can do for their children is read with them. Even reading a few minutes a day makes a world of difference. Literacy is not only the key skill required by almost all education formats but also one of the most influential factors in any learning endeavor. Even children too
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Canceling Celebrities While the Holy Land Goes to War3
- Culture, International
- October 19, 2023
On October 7, at 6:30 a.m. local time, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War that pitted Israel against its Arab neighbors, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas launched a devastating land, air, and sea attack that killed and injured thousands and seized nearly 200 civilian hostages, who are now believed to be in
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The Incandescent Ban and the Lie of LED Efficiency0
- Economics
- October 19, 2023
It happened as I went to grab a new package of baby wipes from under the sink. I flipped on my bathroom light, and I noticed something strange—one of my three mirror light bulbs began flickering and ultimately settled at a barely luminous dim setting. My LED light went out. The problem is, I changed
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Are We Addicted to Our Screens? How Can We Break Free?2
- Culture
- October 18, 2023
Habitually reaching into our purses or pockets to check our messages, staying up through the wee hours of the morning scrolling on social media, hearing phantom phone vibrations—these are all sure signs of a screen addiction. Like most people in the world these days, I have struggled with controlling my use of screens and technology.
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Civilization Is Permanence, Barbarism Is Instability5
- Culture, Western Civilization
- October 18, 2023
In Part 1 of his 1969 documentary series on the history of Western art, Kenneth Clark defines civilization in a rather illuminating manner: Civilization means something more than energy and will and creative power, something the early Norsemen hadn’t got, but which, even in their time, was beginning to reappear in Western Europe. How can
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Some Thoughts on Halloween and Ray Bradbury0
- Culture, Literature
- October 18, 2023
In 2015, blogger Amanda Russo posted a humorous piece “Why Halloween Is Actually A Pretty Weird Holiday.” As Russo says, on Halloween we encourage our kids to take candy from strangers. We threaten our neighbors with “Trick or Treat.” We spend a chunk of change buying and giving away sugary treats, often to people we
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Why Corporate Feminism Supports Abortion0
The enthusiasm of corporations around abortion rights recalls Karl Marx’s beliefs in The Communist Manifesto: The “bourgeoisie,” or the economic elite in industrialized societies, “has torn away from the family its sentimental veil and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” In other words, capitalism is the bane of family life. While Marx
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What Is a Person? ‘The Creator’ Movie on AI0
- Entertainment
- October 17, 2023
The separation between biological human life and clever AI replicas has been the subject of dozens of science-fiction movies and shows. Star Trek: The Next Generation frequently depicted the endearing Commander Data, a sentient android, entangling himself in awkward situations through his attempts to seem more like his human comrades. Blade Runner 2049 dealt with
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