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How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights0
- Culture
- September 30, 2016
In 18th century Europe, many products and services reached a newly emergent middle class for the first time in human history. The capitalist age was maturing, and that meant that average people had money for the first time and lots of choices on how to spend it. One of the new products they could buy
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Prof: Kids are Not Learning Anything0
- Culture
- September 29, 2016
Ask British professor Dennis Hayes how government-run schools are doing and he would say they’re in bad shape. As he recently explained to The Independent, “the kids are basically not learning anything,” largely because the schools “confuse information with knowledge.” But Hayes isn’t simply bashing the schools without offering solutions. According to him, reintroducing subjects
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Political Correctness: Word Police Want More Than Your Words0
- Culture
- September 29, 2016
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Man Wearing Trump Hat Beaten By Mob in California0
- Culture
- September 29, 2016
A video has surfaced showing a Trump supporter beaten at a rally in El Cajon, Calif. The man, who was wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat, was cornered, beaten, and chased by a mob. Watch the video for yourself. (WARNING: Graphic Content) The video is extremely intense, but it’s nothing new.
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Future Teachers Are Scoring Way Low on the SAT0
- Education
- September 29, 2016
The College Board just released a report on the results of the 2016 SAT test. One startling feature of the report included a historical timeline of students’ critical reading scores over the last 40-plus years. In 1972, this score was 530. By 2016 it had fallen to 494. There are undoubtedly many drivers behind this
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Can You Pass Geography 101?0
- Education
- September 29, 2016
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6 Signs You’re Dealing With a Sociopath0
- Education
- September 29, 2016
When it comes to sociopaths, many people have the image of some prominent sociopathic character from a TV series, like Tony Soprano or Dexter Morgan. The truth is that these characters aren’t accurate depictions of the sociopaths you’ll meet in everyday life. Not every sociopath is keen on murdering people. The scary part is that
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5 Reasons Millennials Don’t Want Kids8
- Culture
- September 29, 2016
Last week, I came across an article that cited nine reasons that millennials don’t want to have kids. And even though its tone was more similar to that of a childish rant than an article (so much so that I won’t even link to it here), it did bring up a lot of holdups that
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Why Even Racists Need the Freedom to Speak0
- Philosophy
- September 28, 2016
Until recently, American political culture settled into a comfortable middle ground on matters of race. People knew what to say and how to say it, more or less. It was all very polite. Everyone obeyed the rules. This way you could stay out of trouble and avoid one of the most devastating accusations that could
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