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  • Prof: Why My University Shutdown My Website and Blog

    Prof: Why My University Shutdown My Website and Blog13

    You might think that student and faculty rights to free speech and academic freedom are overrated. Shouldn’t they have the same rights under the First Amendment that all of us have? Well, they do, but they don’t. Professors and students often communicate their thoughts on blogs on university websites on university servers. University administrators understand

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  • New Study Links Pot Use to Degenerative Brain Disorder

    New Study Links Pot Use to Degenerative Brain Disorder0

    Via Big Think: Researchers at Amen Clinics Inc. of California have found evidence that chronic use may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s. This is because it restricts blood flow to the regions of the brain where the condition takes root. Co-author Dr. Elisabeth Jorandby and colleagues recruited participants with marijuana use disorder. Around nine percent

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  • How to Know When Holiday Drinking is Hurting Your Brain

    How to Know When Holiday Drinking is Hurting Your Brain0

    For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer – and, often, alcohol. Commercially speaking, alcohol and the holidays seem to be made for each other. Alcohol can be a quick and easy way to get into the spirit of celebration.

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  • Grammar Nazis: A True Intellectual is More Gracious

    Grammar Nazis: A True Intellectual is More Gracious0

    Every day on Facebook, I watch as some debate is interrupted by a correction of a participant’s grammar. When these corrections occur on Intellectual Takeout, they are sometimes accompanied by a dig at the person’s intelligence, with the implication that the corrector is much more of an intellectual. For all of you Grammar Nazis out

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  • Gov. Report: Death Rate Up, Life Expectancy Down in America in 2015

    Gov. Report: Death Rate Up, Life Expectancy Down in America in 20150

    The death rate increased 1.2% last year, and life expectancy fell in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. Female life expectancy dropped from 81.3 to 81.2 years, and male life expectancy fell from 76.5 to 76.3 years.  As ABC News notes, “A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending:

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  • When Santa Claus was Replaced by Ded Moroz

    When Santa Claus was Replaced by Ded Moroz0

    When totalitarian regimes (particularly those of the Left) come to power, one of the first things they typically do is destroy hallowed cultural symbols, the better to remake society from the ground up.  The Soviet campaign to replace the symbols of Christmas is an interesting cultural chapter in the history of what Ronald Reagan famously

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  • We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information

    We’re Paralyzed by Too Much Information0

    T.S. Eliot famously lamented, “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” The staff and I at Intellectual Takeout find ourselves frequently asking the same thing. Modern Western man is suffering from an information overload. There are now over one million new books published each year in just the U.S., large newspapers publish anywhere

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  • Regretting Motherhood: A Symptom of 21st Century Anti-Natalism

    Regretting Motherhood: A Symptom of 21st Century Anti-Natalism0

    Bristol Palin is having her third child, her second with husband Dakota Meyer. The announcement a week ago has caused some of cattiest comments any “baby joy” headline has ever garnered, judging from this account. “Now the ‘Pro-Life, Pro-God, Pro-Guns’ Palin is prepping for Baby No. 3,” ran a USA Today headline dripping with disdain. “At this rate it would be

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  • More Votes than Voters Found in 37% of Detroit Precincts

    More Votes than Voters Found in 37% of Detroit Precincts0

    Green Party presidential hopeful Jill Stein has taken some heat for demanding recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. It turns out we may owe her a debt of gratitude. Via The Detroit News: Voting machines in more than one-third of all Detroit precincts registered more votes than they should have during last month’s presidential election,

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