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Love at First Sight: Is it Real?0
- Culture
- August 31, 2018
For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight. To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat lust. Buy into it, they say, and
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Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful 2
- Culture
- August 31, 2018
There are some who say children rob you of your youth. Perhaps this belief is even influencing the trend of Western women putting off having kids till later in life. Though the delaying of motherhood is explained by demographers in various other ways, it could also betray a kind of pathology in women, persuading them
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Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics 0
- Culture
- August 31, 2018
Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year was significantly higher than other estimates. So NPR, with the assistance of the non-profit group Child Trends, began doing what good journalists do: they collected
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J.D. Martinez’s Second Amendment Stance Isn’t Controversial. It’s Patriotic.0
- Culture
- August 31, 2018
Someone recently dug up an old pro-Second Amendment Instagram post by Boston Red Sox star J.D. Martinez, in which the potential Triple Crown winner posted a picture of Adolf Hitler featuring the quote, “To conquer a nation, First disarm it’s (sic) citizens.” Martinez captioned the post, “This is why I will always stay strapped! #thetruth.”
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5 Dating Tips for Those Interested in True, Long-Lasting Love 0
- Culture
- August 31, 2018
While recently scrolling through headlines, I came across one proclaiming, “How to be charming on a date.” Clicking on it, I found five tips, complete with detailed explanations of how to carry out this charm. These are summarized below: Be well-dressed – Be stylish, but simple. Avoid trends, choosing instead clothing items which put you
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Why It Matters That Teens Are Reading Less 0
- Culture
- August 30, 2018
Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens have come of age with smartphones in their pockets. Compared to teens a couple of decades ago, the way they interact with traditional media like books and movies is fundamentally different. My co-authors and I analyzed
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