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  • Why Slow Drivers Should Get Out of the Left Lane

    Why Slow Drivers Should Get Out of the Left Lane0

    For the second week in a row, I find myself approvingly citing Ezra Klein. This week the Vox editor is featured in a cleverly-produced video that focuses on one of my pet peeves: people who drive slowly in the left lane. (For the record, driving the speed limit qualifies as relatively slow.) As the video

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  • Why Did Japan’s Massacre of Disabled Gone Unnoticed?

    Why Did Japan’s Massacre of Disabled Gone Unnoticed?0

    On July 26, 2016 a man wielding a knife broke into Tsukui Yamayuriena, a home for the disabled outside of Tokyo and brutally murdered 19 people as they slept, while injuring another 26. Afterwards, he turned himself in to a local police station, with the explanation: “It is better that the disabled disappear.” Disability advocates

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  • What Should be the Goal of Education?

    What Should be the Goal of Education?0

    With the start of school just around the corner, Phi Delta Kappa has just released their annual poll on American attitudes towards the public schools. This year, one of the questions asked was: “What do you think should be the main goal of a public school education: to prepare students academically, to prepare them for

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  • What Most Freshman Will Experience Their First Week in College

    What Most Freshman Will Experience Their First Week in College0

    It took less than a week into the 2016-2017 academic year for several outrageous stories to surface on college campuses. At the University of Texas at Austin, thousands of students protested the state’s new campus carry law by wielding sex toys in a campaign called “Cocks Not Glocks.” The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee told students that

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  • The Knitting Revival: A Quest for Life Purpose?

    The Knitting Revival: A Quest for Life Purpose?0

    A little over a year ago, a study conducted by the British-based Ordnance Survey discovered that many Brits believe basic life skills are becoming extinct. The skills in decline ranged from reading a map, to writing in cursive, to baking bread from scratch. But one of the items on the list may not be disappearing

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  • How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children

    How Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development In Children69

    Observing a pianist at a recital – converting musical notations into precisely timed finger movements on a piano – can be a powerful emotional experience. As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain

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