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Five Modern Wise Men Everyone Should Know 0
- Culture
- November 26, 2018
Sometimes we are tempted to think that wisdom is dead and, admittedly, it sometimes seems as if that is true. And yet, there are still many modern thinkers, some of them still alive, who are able, in the words of one philosopher, to “see things and to see them whole.” And many of them are
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A 1944 Warning About Genetically Edited Babies 0
- November 26, 2018
I saw the headline scroll across the marquee as I drove by the public radio station this morning: gene-edited babies are officially a thing. The news comes out of China at the hands of researcher He Jiankui, who genetically edited a pair of twin girls. According to The Associated Press, Jiankui is well-meaning and
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Why Do Black Friday Shoppers Throw Punches Over Bargains?0
- Culture
- November 21, 2018
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The Secrets of a Longer Life 0
- November 21, 2018
New data has revealed that it is our own behavior that is the greatest threat to our staying alive. Poor diet is the number one risk factor, followed by high blood pressure and smoking. A bad diet was behind more than 19 percent of all deaths worldwide in 2017, and almost 70 percent of coronary heart disease deaths, and a
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What Lincoln’s Secretary of State Can Teach Us About Hospitality 0
- Culture
- November 21, 2018
November elections are unfortunate in that they have the power to throw a long and divisive shadow over an already under-appreciated holiday, Thanksgiving. The 2018 election cycle was considerably less divisive than the 2016 cycle – which had the effect of cutting Thanksgiving dinners short in many families, and some family members even being uninvited
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High School Boys Pose with Nazi Salute… but the Problem is Not Racism 1
- Culture
- November 21, 2018
A controversy erupted in Wisconsin last week when a photo of a group of boys was posted on Twitter. Not only were almost all of the boys white (a fact alarming in itself to some people), but in what looked to be a high school prom photo, they were giving what appeared to be the
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