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Neuroscientist: Gender-neutral Parenting is ‘Futile’0
- Culture
- January 6, 2017
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a recent trend amongst younger parents to keep their children away from toys and clothes which cater specifically to boys or girls. Parents who practice this trend do so believing that they will free their child from the gender norms which society has inflicted upon us. But according
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Apprenticeships Are Leading a Quiet Revolution in Higher Ed 0
- Culture
- January 6, 2017
There is a revolution happening in higher education. It’s happening without fanfare. It’s in what futurist investor Peter Diamandis might call the “deceptive phase”. This revolution is the rediscovery of a longstanding idea that somehow got lost in the last century or so: apprenticeship. The Loud Nothing Higher education is a popular target for reformers.
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Christians: Those Who Criticize ‘Religion’ May Have a Point 0
- Philosophy
- January 6, 2017
On the Intellectual Takeout Facebook page, we see a lot of commenters who are not only a-religious, but anti-religious. Sorry to say, but I’ve found that most of those who are anti-religious are intellectually unimpressive. Most of their retorts represent nothing more than name-calling, they clearly lack an understanding of basic religious tenets (which I
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No, Don, this was Evil 0
- Culture
- January 6, 2017
By now, most of the country has learned about the kidnapping and torture of a white, special-needs teenager by four, young blacks in Chicago. The reason we all know about it? Because one of the four perpetrators decided to live-stream their actions on Facebook. (Warning, disturbing images.) The full video is rampant with
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From Russia with Love?0
- Politics
- January 6, 2017
The buzz word of Barack Obama’s Presidential Election Campaign, oh so many eons ago, was “change”. What Americans want, we were told, was “change”. Now as the sun sets on the Obama-Nation we move forward into a New Year with a new leader of a very different ilk at the helm. America, it seems, will
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Is Hunting Moral? A Philosopher Unpacks the Question 0
- Culture
- January 5, 2017
Every year as daylight dwindles and trees go bare, debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters see the act of stalking and killing deer, ducks, moose and other quarry as humane, necessary and natural, and thus as ethical. Critics respond that hunting is a cruel and useless act that one should be ashamed to
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