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Pliny’s ‘Natural History’ Offers Odd Home Remedies2
- History
- July 21, 2016
Gaius Plinius Secundus (more commonly known simply as Pliny or Pliny the elder) was a Roman naturalist and physician who lived during the dawn of the Roman Empire. Pliny was born in 23 A.D. in Lombardy, a province in Northern Italy, and spent many years in the Roman army as an officer. In his
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6 ways Stoicism can help today’s leaders0
- Western Civilization
- July 21, 2016
With the increasing swirl of interest around mindfulness, resilience and innovation we can’t forget that there are many who have trodden this path before us with important lessons we can borrow. Stoicism is the branch of ancient western philosophy that focuses on mindfulness, resilience, creativity and more, all of which allows us to flourish and
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10 Phrases We Use Today That Originated In The Middle Ages0
- Education
- July 21, 2016
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Why Can’t People Disagree Without Taking Things So Damn Personally?0
- July 20, 2016
Many in our audience express dismay about people not being able to discuss hot-button issues – politics, religion, race, sexuality – without it devolving into anger and name-calling. Why is it that people can’t have a disagreement without taking things so damn personally? Well, one obvious reason is human nature. Our positions on controversial topics
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What would Socrates do?0
- History
- July 20, 2016
Surveying news headlines in recent years, it seems that cheating is rampant. In the athletic arena, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for using performance-enhancing drugs. In business, some of the world’s largest banks have paid nearly $200 billion – the equivalent of the GDP of New Zealand – in
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What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong0
- History
- July 20, 2016
By any objective standard, it would be difficult to claim that the Constitution really matters at any practical level in the United States. At a symbolic level, it still means a great deal. But, what a disconnect: that it matters so much in our minds and language but that it means nothing in our day-to-day
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What Ivy League Students Were Studying 250 Years Ago1
- July 20, 2016
Here is the curriculum for Columbia University (“King’s College” at the time) in 1763. As you look through this list, keep in mind that the average age of the first-year student was fifteen! First Year Sallust, Historia Caesar, Commentaries Ovid, Metamorphoses Virgil, Eclogues Aesop, Fables Lucian, Dialogues ?New Testament Grotius, De Veritate Latin Grammar Greek Grammar English & Latin Themes Cornelius Nepos
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Exchange Student: Chinese campus more tolerant than NYU0
- Culture
- July 20, 2016
Ella Reider said she didn’t quite know what to expect prior to her study abroad in the People’s Republic of China. Reider, a Global Liberal Studies major at NYU who recently completed her sophomore year, is spending the year immersing herself in Chinese culture and learning the nation’s language at NYU-Shanghai, a portal campus the
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10 Insults from Ancient Rome (in English and Latin)0
- Western Civilization
- July 20, 2016
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