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Can You Pass This 8th Grade U.S. Civics Test?0
- Education
- July 11, 2016
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Should parents sometimes make children apologize?0
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when you didn’t get one? Have you ever found it hard to deliver the words, I’m sorry? Such experiences show how much apologies matter. The importance placed on apologies is shared by many cultures. Diverse cultures even share a great deal in common when
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Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t 0
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, “is a prime example of fictitious disease,” said Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD,” shortly before he passed away at the age of 87 in 2009. Why would Eisenberg claim that a condition we’ve come to know so well is largely fictitious? While many have said that Eisenberg’s
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3 Reasons Why Kids Should Read Classic Stories 1
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
The BBC just released the results of a poll which asked to name one book every child should read. Among others, the list included Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, and The Bible. But while some of the books on the list were a bit surprising, the response to the
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Sharing Your Netflix Password Might Now Be a Federal Crime 1
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the conviction of a man who used a former co-worker’s password to access information from his previous employer. Via Reuters: A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday gave the U.S. Department of Justice broad leeway to police password theft under
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Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms 0
- Culture
- July 11, 2016
As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words. Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving
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