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Why you should be skeptical of headlines declaring that this 69-year-old monk dubbed the ‘world’s happiest man’ holds the secret to happiness 0
- Philosophy
- July 31, 2017
Matthieu Ricard, a Tibetan monk from France, has been declared the world’s happiest man by media and, perhaps more importantly, by Google. Many years ago, Ricard, a genetic scientist who walked away from an intellectual career, participated in a 12-year study conducted by neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin. Here is what researchers
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Report: Young People are Clueless about How Food Grows 0
- Culture
- July 31, 2017
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that there’s a decline of knowledge amongst today’s young people. The Nation’s Report Card – which shows that less than half of students are proficient in every academic subject – offers ample evidence of this. Other evidences are found through the comparison of today’s curriculum with that of past decades. But
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Milton Friedman Was Right to Call Them ‘Government Schools’0
- Economics
- July 31, 2017
Today is Milton Friedman’s birthday. He was the 1976 Nobel-prize winning economist who promoted free-market ideals and limited government. The Economist called him “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it.” He died in 2006, but one of his lasting legacies is EdChoice, formerly the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice,
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Quiet Courage, Not Machismo, is What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ So Compelling 0
- Culture
- July 28, 2017
The story of Dunkirk is remarkable. Civilians sailed their fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and trawlers across the English Channel to France to attempt a rescue mission for 400,000 British and French soldiers encircled by Hitler’s Wehrmacht—the German army—in 1940. If those men were captured, England would have effectively been knocked out of the war. In
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The Confusing Logic of Gender Ideology: A Quiz 0
- Philosophy
- July 28, 2017
No one should accept the new transgender ideology unless he can answer the following 10 questions with answers that actually make sense: 1. If it is “impossible for a man to feel what a woman feels” (as men are often told), then how could a man ever “transition” to a woman because he “feels like
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Why Freshman Comp Students Struggle to Get an ‘A’0
- Education
- July 28, 2017
So you think you might like teaching college English. You love the language and its great works. Lots of people are like that, including me. Good, but beware. Teaching college English, especially freshman comp, is not for the faint-hearted. If you are drawn to the profession by the joys you experienced in grad school reading
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