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  • Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School

    Plutarch’s 3 Tips for Choosing a School1

    Today’s education world is full of options. In fact, there are so many options that it can be tempting for parents to throw up their hands and just pick one without much thought. But such is a terrible move, according to the ancient Roman author Plutarch. He suggests the following three steps in choosing an

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  • How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights

    How Coffee Drinking Helped Advance Women’s Rights0

    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 Anything

    Prof: Kids are Not Learning Anything0

    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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  • Can You Pass Geography 101?

    Can You Pass Geography 101?0

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  • 6 Signs You’re Dealing With a Sociopath

    6 Signs You’re Dealing With a Sociopath0

    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 Kids

    5 Reasons Millennials Don’t Want Kids8

    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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