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The Reason Why Universities Don’t Give Their Students Challenging Texts 0
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
In a recent article for The Times Higher Education, a variety of university professors from Great Britain and Australia note a common theme in today’s students: an inability to read anything of length or depth. Take, for example, the following quotes: “Our undergraduates – and postgraduate students as well – seem mainly not to be
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WTH Happened to Argentina’s Economy? This Chart WIll Show You…0
- Economics
- April 18, 2016
Last week, I noticed that Argentina is laying the groundwork to return to global debt markets. As a point of background, a decade and a half ago Argentina defaulted on a $100 billion obligation, the largest debt default in history. Then, in 2014, it happened again. We’ve become kind of immune to bad economic news
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Video: Teacher Goes Off On Student Who Claimed He Caught Him Watching Porn 2
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
Via WOWK-TV, a CBS affiliate out of Charleston, West Virginia: A video that shows an East Bank Middle School teacher berating a student was emailed in to 13 News to be investigated. 13-year-old Jeffrey Province says he was the first student into his math class at East Bank Middle School on Tuesday when he
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Study: Literacy in Ancient Israel Was ‘Far More Widespread than Previously Known’0
- History
- April 15, 2016
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study on Monday revealing that literacy among ancient Israeli soldiers was much higher than previously believed. The study was based on 16 inscriptions on pottery fragments (known as ostracons) unearthed near the Dead Sea in an excavation from the Judahite desert fortress of Arad. The
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Chesterton: Newspapers are ‘the hobbies of a few rich men’0
- Culture
- April 15, 2016
If anything positive has come about from the 2016 presidential campaign season, it would be that the press has revealed its true character. Complaints abound from Americans of all stripes that “the media” is more interested in driving its own narrative than simply informing the public. In his 1908 book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton wrote about
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Scientists: Funny People are Smarter 0
- Culture
- April 15, 2016
This may come as a surprise or it may not, but according to a 2011 study from researchers at the University of New Mexico, funny people seem to be a bit smarter than your average person. The University of New Mexico asked 400 psychology students to complete measures of abstract reasoning ability and verbal intelligence
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