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What Meditation Can Do For Your Brain 0
- Family
- October 14, 2016
Can meditation grow your brain, make you more compassionate, and slow the aging process? Sounds too crazy to believe, right? Like most, I tended to look at the supposed positive effects of meditation as, at best, a tree-hugger’s wishful thinking, or, at worst, utter poppycock. But recent studies are making me question my dismissal of
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Holocaust Survivor Warns How Societies Make Monsters 0
- Education
- October 14, 2016
Have you ever wondered how man sank so low as to allow and even enable horrific historical events such as the Holocaust? I recently ran across one answer to that question expressed by a man who endured the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps firsthand. The man, Viktor Frankl, was a rising Austrian psychiatrist when
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Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Death of Human Dignity 0
- Culture
- October 14, 2016
So much has been said and written about the present Presidential election campaign that many of us are no doubt feeling overloaded with unwanted and ill-tempered debate and are suffering from political-spin-fatigue. This being so, I have no desire to add to the political overload nor do I intend to descend to the sewers and
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Is the UN Sweeping Israel’s History Under the Rug?0
- Culture
- October 14, 2016
Israel and the UN have not been what one could call “chummy” in recent history. And they’re not likely to grow any closer after today, either. According to the BBC, UNESCO, the self-proclaimed “‘intellectual’ agency of the United Nations” released a statement on Jerusalem’s premiere piece of real estate “known to Jews as the Temple
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Blind Astrophysicist Discovers Way to Listen to Stars 0
- Science
- October 13, 2016
As a person who regularly gazes up into the darkness of night, musing over the millions of tiny, bright stars that flicker in the sky, losing my eyesight would easily be one of the most tragic things to happen to me. A Puerto Rican astrophysicist named Wanda Diaz Merced grew up dreaming about traveling to
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How to Fix U.S. Elections 0
- Education
- October 13, 2016
Experts rate the performance of recent American elections as the worst among two dozen Western democracies. Why? Some longstanding practices are to blame. Partisan gerrymandering insulates incumbents. Infotainment-dominated commercial news reduce campaigns to spectator sport. Social media amplifies angry trolls. Ballot access laws restrict third-party challengers. Women and minority candidates have to fight a hostile
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