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Love or Hate the Term ‘Snowflake’? Thank ‘Fight Club’0
- Culture
- January 25, 2017
I’ve probably seen Fight Club 40 times. A friend whom I lived with in college had a sort of obsession with the film. Yet I somehow failed to make the connection between Fight Club and the term “snowflake.” Here it is: “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same
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Business Prodigy: College ‘Biggest Regret in Life’0
- Culture
- January 24, 2017
Neil Patel is only 32 years old, but he has already founded three companies and received numerous recognitions, including making President Obama’s list of top 100 entrepreneurs under 30. Naturally, Patel’s success makes him a prime candidate to learn from. In a recent edition of Forbes, Patel bluntly states that he didn’t learn the one
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Politics Will Make You Dumber 0
- Culture
- January 24, 2017
Hunter S. Thompson is one of my favorite authors and one of the smartest humorists of the last hundred years. He also shot himself in the head once he reached his mid-sixties. I don’t think he viewed himself as a humorist per se. Maybe I don’t fully understand the implications of that descriptor. I think of
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Most People Today Want to be Propagandized 0
- Culture
- January 24, 2017
There’s a principle in hypnotism that goes like this: A person cannot be hypnotized against his will. He must be a willing subject. He must be fully cooperative. So it goes with propaganda. For propaganda to be effective, it requires submissive subjects. As Professor Nicholas O’Shaughnessy wrote, propaganda is a “co-production in which we are
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What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us 0
- Philosophy
- January 24, 2017
The coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fishes, with weird appendages that take the form of bony, fleshy, muscular stalks. They’re well-represented in the fossil record all the way back to the Devonian period, some 390 million years ago. However, about 66 million years ago – the time of the dinosaurs’ demise – coelacanths
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Edward Snowden Welcomes Trump Press Secretary with Blistering Tweet 0
- Politics
- January 24, 2017
If you thought Edward Snowden was going to play nice with the Trump White House in hopes of receiving a pardon, you were sorely mistaken. In case you missed it, the new White House is finding itself on the losing end of a petty squabble with the press regarding the size of, ahem, Trump’s inauguration
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