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  • How an Archer With No Arms Set a World Record

    How an Archer With No Arms Set a World Record0

    It’s not everyday that you get to witness records for any kind of sport being broken, but last year we got to witness a truly amazing feat, as Paralympic archer Matt Stutzman acquired the Furthest accurate distance in Men’s archery title. At a private golf club in McKinney, Texas, Matt, the ‘armless archer,’ loosed an arrow from

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  • Healthy: Let Your Beliefs Be Challenged

    Healthy: Let Your Beliefs Be Challenged0

    One of the more frustrating things for me is when supposedly educated people refuse to tolerate challenges to their beliefs. Either they rebuff all tough questions with a desire not to discuss potentially controversial subjects. Or they quickly become angry and quash any chance for civil dialogue. Or, they resort to a mindless repetition of

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  • Facebook, surveillance capitalism, and feedback control

    Facebook, surveillance capitalism, and feedback control0

    On May 10, a United States Senate Committee sent a letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to respond to accusations that “employees of Facebook routinely suppressed conservative political viewpoints on the social network.” Former Facebook employees reportedly said that they had manipulated the content of “Trending Topics,” which displays news based on recent popularity, pages that

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  • Bonhoeffer on the ‘Levelling Down’ of Society

    Bonhoeffer on the ‘Levelling Down’ of Society1

    Not long ago, University of Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen made a startling announcement: “My students are know-nothings.” As Intellectual Takeout previously noted, Deneen believes that this lack of knowledge is the result of “civilizational commitment to civilizational suicide.” Thus, even while society claims to advance deep thought and educational excellence, society instead produces mediocre

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  • Are Today’s Conservatives Actually ‘Conservative’?

    Are Today’s Conservatives Actually ‘Conservative’?0

    It is common in political discourse these days to pit “conservatives” against “liberals.” The former ideological group, we are told by the media, are in crisis, while the latter group is in the ascendant in American culture and politics. And self-designated conservatives have repeatedly let us know that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is not

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  • Are Schools Promoting Creativity… or Obedience?

    Are Schools Promoting Creativity… or Obedience?0

    In an article for The Guardian, an executive for international marketing and public relations company Ogilvy & Mather made the observation that: “Creativity is the most powerful competitive advantage a business can have. Companies need to fizz with new ideas and fresh thinking. But there’s a problem – there just aren’t enough fizzy people around.”

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  • 10 Provocative Quotes on Education from Ray Bradbury

    10 Provocative Quotes on Education from Ray Bradbury0

    1) “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading… You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” 2) “If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and

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  • Worrying About Being a Perfect Mom Makes it Harder to Be a Good Parent

    Worrying About Being a Perfect Mom Makes it Harder to Be a Good Parent1

    Even armed with a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, I remember the frightening first moments after bringing my newborn daughter home from the hospital. I wasn’t sure what to do – and not at all confident that I was capable of being the parent she needed me to be. Every little decision about feeding and caring

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  • Was This Man the Founding Father of Fascism?

    Was This Man the Founding Father of Fascism?0

    Have you heard of the “great man” theory of history? The meaning is obvious from the words. The idea is that history moves in epochal shifts under the leadership of visionary, bold, often ruthless men who marshal the energy of masses of people to push events in radical new directions. Nothing is the same after

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