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  • Professor On Leave After Criticizing Black Lives Matter

    Professor On Leave After Criticizing Black Lives Matter0

    Via the Washington Post: A college professor found himself in hot water after likening the Black Lives Matter movement to the racism of the Klu Klux Klan.  Douglas Muir, an adjunct professor for the University of Virginia, wrote in a Facebook comment that Black Lives Matter is the “biggest” racist organization since the KKK. The

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  • How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain

    How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain0

    It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a foetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of its mother. Soon after birth, a child can identify its mother’s voice and will work to hear her voice better over unfamiliar female voices. A

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  • Hormonal Contraception Linked to Depression, Study Finds

    Hormonal Contraception Linked to Depression, Study Finds0

    It’s been reported by many smaller publications, but finally the big news sources are onto it: the pill increases your chance of developing depression. This time, the statistics are coming from an article in a leading journal, JAMA Psychiatry. The research was done in Denmark and the study is huge – it involved over a

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  • Teacher: Stop Being Your Child’s Friend

    Teacher: Stop Being Your Child’s Friend0

    I was at a public park this weekend when I noticed a family preparing for a photo shoot. This family caught the attention of everyone else in the park as well, namely because of the screams emanating from one of its younger members. The screams continued for the next quarter of an hour and it

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  • Leading Scientific Journal: Don’t Sacrifice the Liberal Arts to STEM

    Leading Scientific Journal: Don’t Sacrifice the Liberal Arts to STEM0

    There’s been a lot of rhetoric in recent years from conservative leaders about the importance of giving students a STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). That our students should have a better education in math and science is not controversial. What is controversial is when a math and science emphasis is pitted against the

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  • In Defense of Potty-Mouthed Millennials

    In Defense of Potty-Mouthed Millennials0

    Newly published research revealed that millennials, particularly young women, like to swear at work. A lot.  Via Bloomberg: It’s normal for millennials to say “s—” and “f—” at work, and new research finds that younger women are among the most likely demographic to drop the f-bomb in the office. About three-quarters of female millennial managers

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  • Did LBJ Say, ‘I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years’?

    Did LBJ Say, ‘I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years’?14

    For reasons that are obvious, at a recent editorial meeting topic of conversation swung toward some of the most shocking things ever said by U.S. presidents. Of course Lyndon Baines Johnson’s name quickly popped up. LBJ, a beer-swilling, blunt-speaking Texan, didn’t shy from using what today we refer to as The N Word. One sentence

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  • Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech

    Claim: Evolution Can’t Account for Man’s Speech0

    Thank God for Tom Wolfe.  He’s been coming forth with the right sort of right stuff for better than a half century, and he’s still at it. Or maybe it should be “chundering” forth. The verb of choice is Wolfe’s, who has allegedly scholarly papers chundering forth all over the place in this short book.

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  • Are We Boring Students to Death?

    Are We Boring Students to Death?0

    I had an interesting conversation with a 12-year-old young man the other day. When I asked him about school, he explained how he never learned anything and had decided that it wasn’t worth it to even try anymore. Instead, he was becoming one of the “bad kids” and making life miserable for his teachers. But

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