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Bended-Knee Proposals: Reconsidering the Tradition 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2018
Whenever a major holiday like Christmas, New Year’s, or Valentine’s Day approaches, it’s almost a given that some friend or acquaintance from Facebook will get engaged. Their smiling faces will show up in your feed, and if you’re lucky, maybe even a real action shot or video which catches the special moment as it unfolds:
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Do Your Child a Favour – Give Them a Mission in Life 1
- Culture
- February 9, 2018
Generation Y– my generation– and those since, (Millenials, iGen, Dot-Commers or whatever you want to call anyone younger than 30), have received at least one message from Western culture loud and clear: “Have a good time.” This principle holds well in Peter Pan’s fantastical home Neverland where no one has to grow up, but in
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What the Evolution of Jealousy Tells Us About Online Infidelity 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2018
It is estimated that by 2020, 2.95 billion people will be using social networks. But while sites like Facebook revolve around the wholesome concepts of friends, likes and shares, they have also become a way for people to cheat on their partners. The problem is so rife, it seems, that suspicious partners are breaking into
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Why Bitcoin Will Never Become a World Currency 0
- Economics
- February 9, 2018
One doesn’t need to hold a PhD in Economics to realize that money plays a vital part in the correct functioning of an economy. By means of an excellent analogy, the American economist Steve Horwitz likens money to blood circulating through the body: any disease affecting the red river of life will likely impact the
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Are Schools Seeking to Raise Social Justice Warriors?0
- Culture
- February 9, 2018
Famed educator Maria Montessori once said: “Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the
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Let Us Eradicate Poverty, Not Demolish Wealth 0
- Economics
- February 8, 2018
By the time you finish reading this article, some 600 people from all over the world will have escaped poverty. In 1990, 35 percent of the world population lived in extreme poverty. Today, that figure has fallen to 10.7 percent, according to the World Bank. In 1987, there were 660 million poor people in China. After its economy
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