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Study: People Who Curse Have Better Vocabularies 0
- Entertainment
- April 21, 2016
Okay, finally we have good evidence that cursing isn’t some classless, primitive behavior that most think is indicative of barbarism and heathenism. Alright, maybe it’s not that extreme, but there are people out there who think that cursing is unattractive and unnecessary. If you’ve ever been accused of sounding less intelligent because you swear too
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Why Don’t People Change Their Minds? It’s All About Survival 0
- Culture
- April 21, 2016
If the current political campaigns have revealed anything about Americans, it is that they loathe changing their minds. Although a few people may vote for a different political party this year, because the two frontrunners struggle with likeability, most Americans will hold fast to their personal values and beliefs—at least on the big issues, such
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3 Brain Puzzles You’ll Probably Fail 1
- Culture
- April 21, 2016
The power of the human mind is astonishing. It’s also highly unpredictable. On one hand it is capable of computer-like power; on the other hand, it is at times easily fooled. I’ve always been fascinated by mind puzzles and thought exams that reveal the quirks in human thinking. Below are three puzzles—perhaps you’ve seen one
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Are Parents Being Hoodwinked by the Public Schools?0
- Education
- April 21, 2016
When it comes to public education, parents are quick to condemn the system as a whole, but give a positive rating to their own local schools. As Gallup discovered a few years ago, 75% of parents express satisfaction with their child’s education. Judging from a new survey released by Learning Heroes, that high percentage of
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Progressives Have a Dilemma When It Comes to ‘Gender’0
- Culture
- April 21, 2016
There’s a meme circulating among socially conservative Facebook users that poses what seems to be a fascinating dilemma for progressives: It does seem that the two propositions are logically incompatible with each other, yet both are widely held among progressives. But are they really incompatible? Some radical feminists of the “second wave” that arose in
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Outer Space: Why Have We Heard Nothing?0
- Science
- April 21, 2016
A year ago, Ellen Stofan, a chief scientist at NASA, made a bold prediction on the question of the discovery of alien life in the universe: I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years
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