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How Mini Sabbaths Will Save Your Brain 0
- Culture
- January 29, 2020
Have humans become an indoor species? Given that Americans spend, on average, 93 percent of their time indoors, it would seem that we are indeed suffering from what some call “nature deficit disorder.” We don’t need a fancy term to realize we might benefit from spending more time outdoors. Getting out for a gentle walk
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Reddit Is a Window Into the American Nightmare 0
- Culture
- January 29, 2020
The Internet, among other things, is a compendium of human nature; an emergent portrait of everything that we are. Discussion forums in particular, most especially Reddit, are an endless encyclopedia encompassing all of humanity’s creativity, kindness, brutality, eccentricity, and boredom. Reddit can occasionally inspire, and the right corners of the site can teach you a
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Violence by Women Against Men Is Rising in the UK 0
- Culture
- January 29, 2020
Domestic violence by women toward family members has risen twice as fast as those by men in the United Kingdom. According to statistics obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under freedom of information legislation, female perpetrators now account for 28 percent of cases of domestic violence – compared to 19 percent a decade ago. In a disturbing column in The Telegraph Celia
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Kobe Bryant’s ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Holds a Lesson for Us All 0
- Culture
- January 29, 2020
After his storied NBA career but before his tragic death at the age of 41, Kobe Bryant wrote a letter to himself. His 17-year-old self, to be precise. By this time, Bryant had accumulated five NBA Championship rings and a net worth of $680 million. But it wasn’t just material things Bryant had acquired. The
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Not the School We Knew: Six Facts About American Education 0
- Education
- January 29, 2020
Most of us have our own life experiences to draw from when thinking about school, but things have changed a little (or a lot!) since we were last in a classroom. Imagine your neighbor Caroline said her son loves the magnet elementary school he switched to in August. You might be perplexed as images of
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Hate Cancel Culture? Blame Social Media Algorithms 0
- Culture
- January 28, 2020
“Cancel culture” has become so pervasive that even former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the phenomenon, describing it as an overly judgmental approach to activism that does little to bring about change. For the uninitiated, here’s a quick primer on the phenomenon: An individual or an organization says, supports or promotes something that
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