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Healthy: Let Your Beliefs Be Challenged 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2016
One of the more frustrating things for me is when supposedly educated people refuse to tolerate challenges to their beliefs. Either they rebuff all tough questions with a desire not to discuss potentially controversial subjects. Or they quickly become angry and quash any chance for civil dialogue. Or, they resort to a mindless repetition of
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Are Schools Promoting Creativity… or Obedience?0
- Culture
- May 26, 2016
In an article for The Guardian, an executive for international marketing and public relations company Ogilvy & Mather made the observation that: “Creativity is the most powerful competitive advantage a business can have. Companies need to fizz with new ideas and fresh thinking. But there’s a problem – there just aren’t enough fizzy people around.”
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Are Today’s Conservatives Actually ‘Conservative’?0
- Culture
- May 26, 2016
It is common in political discourse these days to pit “conservatives” against “liberals.” The former ideological group, we are told by the media, are in crisis, while the latter group is in the ascendant in American culture and politics. And self-designated conservatives have repeatedly let us know that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is not
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10 Provocative Quotes on Education from Ray Bradbury 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2016
1) “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading… You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” 2) “If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and
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How an Archer With No Arms Set a World Record 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2016
It’s not everyday that you get to witness records for any kind of sport being broken, but last year we got to witness a truly amazing feat, as Paralympic archer Matt Stutzman acquired the Furthest accurate distance in Men’s archery title. At a private golf club in McKinney, Texas, Matt, the ‘armless archer,’ loosed an arrow from
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Facebook, surveillance capitalism, and feedback control 0
- Culture
- May 26, 2016
On May 10, a United States Senate Committee sent a letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to respond to accusations that “employees of Facebook routinely suppressed conservative political viewpoints on the social network.” Former Facebook employees reportedly said that they had manipulated the content of “Trending Topics,” which displays news based on recent popularity, pages that
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