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More Walls Being Built Than at Any Time in Modern History 0
- Culture
- October 12, 2016
The Washington Post led off its Wednesday coverage with an interesting interactive story that carried this admission: nations around the world are walling off at an unprecedented rate. The numbers are clear: In 2015, work started on more new barriers around the world than at any other point in modern history. There are now 63
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The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire 1
- History
- October 12, 2016
“Le grand absent—c’est l’Empire” C. Dufour, Constantinople Imaginaire Everywhere Western man longs for Constantinople and nowhere has he any idea how to find her. To do so is to reclaim, at last, the meaning of an empire that once defined a hierarchy of imagination long ago abandoned by our civilization; of an eleven-century political, religious and
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Princeton Prof: Why it’s Dangerous to Overlook the Past 1
- History
- October 12, 2016
Not long ago, my colleague Daniel Lattier suggested that a new logical fallacy has been lurking around town. This fallacy, he wrote, could be labeled “ad nostalgiam.” A person commits this fallacy when she reflexively accuses someone of nostalgia for pointing out some particular thing was once better or superior. Revered Princeton professor, theologian, and
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Hormonal Contraception Linked to Depression, Study Finds 0
- Family
- October 11, 2016
It’s been reported by many smaller publications, but finally the big news sources are onto it: the pill increases your chance of developing depression. This time, the statistics are coming from an article in a leading journal, JAMA Psychiatry. The research was done in Denmark and the study is huge – it involved over a
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Were Native Americans the First Conservationists?0
- Education
- October 11, 2016
Over the past several decades, the environmental movement has promoted a view of American Indians as the “original conservationists.” References to this image abound: “The Indians were, in truth, the pioneer ecologists of this country,” former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall once said. “For many thousands of years, most of the indigenous nations on
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How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain 0
- Education
- October 11, 2016
It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a foetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of its mother. Soon after birth, a child can identify its mother’s voice and will work to hear her voice better over unfamiliar female voices. A
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