Culture

Sustaining Love and the Secret to Forty-Year Marriages 2
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- April 30, 2020
Today is a milestone day for my family. It marks yet another rotation of the earth around the sun since my parents said “I do.” I won’t tell you what number they’re celebrating… but I will say they passed the 40-mile marker a few years back. In other words, they’re a rarity these days. Their
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What Children’s Toys Tell Us About Our ‘Brave New World’0
- Culture
- April 30, 2020
Why do children today have so many toys? Like most parents, I’m working hard to keep my kids entertained indoors during quarantine. A new report shows online sales of toys and games have increased by 182 percent due to the coronavirus. Here’s the problem: my children already have too much stuff. I can’t possibly buy them anything
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A Physician’s Response to Asymptomatic COVID 0
- Culture
- April 30, 2020
Blood tests that check for exposure to the coronavirus are starting to come online, and preliminary findings suggest that many people have been infected without knowing it. Even people who do eventually experience the common symptoms of COVID-19 don’t start coughing and spiking fevers the moment they’re infected. William Petri is a professor of medicine
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The Myth That Americans Were Poorly Educated Before Mass Schooling 0
- Culture
- April 29, 2020
Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald predicted two months ago. Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from
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Dissent Drives the Advancement of Society 0
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- April 29, 2020
Tolerance is the virtue of the 21st century. Because of this, we’ve seen a new clamor regarding certain opinions viewed as intolerable in America’s political discourse. What makes for a tolerable opinion? That’s hard to say. Yet the arbitrary standards are quickly enacted by certain gatekeepers as soon as someone expresses an opinion deemed too uncouth for our
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COVID-19 Lockdowns May Destroy Our Immune Systems 0
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- April 29, 2020
What happens when trees are planted in a “perfect” growing environment? Give the trees rich soil, just the right amount of water and no wind, and they grow rapidly, but topple over before they reach maturation. Wind stimulates the tree to grow stress wood, which “helps a tree position itself for optimal sun absorption, and it
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