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This 1960s Greek Village Was Cut Off from the Modern World 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2015
In Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village, anthropologist Juliet du Boulay offers a glimpse of how rural Greek people (and most people in the world) thought and lived before modernity had fully absorbed them. Du Boulay lived in a village known by the pseudonym of “Ambéli” for two years in the late 1960s. Though much of
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They Starved, We Bought Snickers 0
- History
- October 30, 2015
How far we’ve come as a country can be seen in the incredible contrast found at the Donner Memorial State Park, where some of the members of a pioneer group survived the winter of 1846/1847 by cannibalizing their deceased comrades. If you’re not familiar with the Donner Party, you can gain a bit of background
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10 Quotes from the Most Popular TED Talk EVER 0
- Education
- October 30, 2015
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” remains the most popular TED talk ever. That should tell us something about the public’s desire to transform today’s education system. Here are 10 thought-provoking quotes from it: 1. “If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring
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The Road to Serfdom: 15 Quotes 0
- Economics
- October 30, 2015
F.A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944 as a response to the Russian communists and the German and Italian fascists of the 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s, as well as to those in other parts of the West that might be tempted by the allure of a society based on total security or
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Russell Brand: Porn is Bad 0
- Culture
- October 30, 2015
According to Russell Brand, porn today must be “dizzying and exciting but corrupting in a way that we can’t even think about” for a young man. We’re a bit shocked that such a statement would come from the actor given some of his acting roles. Brand goes on to say why he doesn’t think it’s
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Intellectuals Didn’t Oppose Nazism Because It Was ‘Tedious’0
- History
- October 29, 2015
There are times when men shirk from opposing grievous error because it’s dangerous, or inconvenient, or they are temporarily blinded by it. And sometimes, it’s because it’s so damn boring. This lesson was forcefully brought home to me in an article Carl Trueman wrote for First Things last year entitled “Persistent Defiance.” In
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