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Harvard Economist: No Racial Bias in Police Shootings0
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
Roland G. Fryer Jr. called the finding “the most surprising result” of his career. In a New York Times article published Monday, Fryer, the youngest African-American to receive tenure at Harvard, said his research finds no racial bias in police shootings. Via the Times: The result contradicts the mental image of police shootings that many
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Can You Pass This 8th Grade U.S. Civics Test?0
- Education
- July 11, 2016
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3 Reasons Why Kids Should Read Classic Stories1
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
The BBC just released the results of a poll which asked to name one book every child should read. Among others, the list included Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, and The Bible. But while some of the books on the list were a bit surprising, the response to the
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Why Not Having Habits Makes You Miserable0
- Education
- July 8, 2016
As distant children of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason, we still highly value the ideals of self-determination, freedom from structure, and independence from the past. These things are good—but only to a certain extent. The process of maturity eventually reveals that one is never entirely independent of the past, that the absence of any
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Why are people starting to believe in UFOs again?0
- Culture
- July 8, 2016
The 1990s were a high-water mark for public interest in UFOs and alien abduction. Shows like “The X-Files” and Fox’s “alien autopsy” hoax were prime-time events, while MIT even hosted an academic conference on the abduction phenomenon. But in the first decade of the 21st century, interest in UFOs began to wane. Fewer sightings were
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What Does Healthy Democracy Look Like?0
- Politics
- July 8, 2016
Surely nobody in this day and age has the temerity to suggest that there’s anything wrong with democracy? Surely I am not doing so? Well, it depends what exactly we mean by democracy. As always, it’s important that we define our terms. Democracy means the rule of the people (Demos = People). The rule of
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Study: 1 in 3 History Majors Don’t Take U.S. History0
- Education
- July 8, 2016
The Nation’s Report Card has presented us with a sad reality in recent years: not even half of American high school seniors are proficient in any subject area. There is one subject, however, in which students score worse than all others. That subject is U.S. history. Only 12 percent of American high school seniors attain
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Racism and homophobia0
- Culture
- July 8, 2016
Recently a long-time reader and commenter raised an issue that should be of interest and concern to people on both sides of the LGBT divide: “Zac and so many others want their point of view to be seen as a legitimate point of view. Even if we disagree with it we are at least supposed
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Can You Name The Classic Novel By Its Last Line?0
- Entertainment
- July 8, 2016
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