Culture

Has the IVF Industry Been Lying to Millennials?0
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- February 7, 2019
Recently the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a technique known as “endometrial scratching”, used in fertility clinics, has been found to be useless. A three-year study carried out in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, showed that the IVF add-on, costing up to $700 in Australia, did nothing to boost the chances of falling pregnant through in vitro fertilisation. Too
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How Craftsmanship Can Save the World 0
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- February 6, 2019
“Right before me, in full view and in all its perfection, was that work of beauty, no, that miracle, the Cologne Cathedral. More than its intricate ornamentation, it was its spiritual depth that struck me, its towers and spires striving up to the heavens. I gasped, and stared with my mouth open…” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s description
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How PC Moralism Cuts Us Off From Our Cultural Heritage 0
- Culture
- February 6, 2019
Anyone who has read classic literature knows that there are things in old books that offend our sensibilities. And this isn’t a new phenomenon either. Every generation sees something in the thought and writing of previous generations that it doesn’t like or that it finds offensive. The difference today is not that there are
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Are Plastic Straws the New Smoking?0
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- February 5, 2019
Plastic straw bans are taking America by storm. Local governments across the country are jumping on the band wagon. Last week, the Washington Post shadowed a health inspector visiting D.C. restaurants to see if they were complying with the city’s new ban. The most revealing quote in the article came from Julie Lawson, director of
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Ted Bundy and the Banality of Evil 0
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- February 5, 2019
A Facebook friend recently asked why people have an interest in serial killers. It’s a valid question and I don’t think she was posing it rhetorically. There must be a reason why audiences are drawn to shows like Netflix’s new four-part docu-series Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. It’s quite an emotionally draining commitment
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Five Famous Shakespeare Quotes You’re Probably Taking Out of Context 0
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- February 5, 2019
Shakespeare is often quoted in a way that makes him sound like his works were incredibly serious and philosophical. While it is true that Shakespeare interacts with deep and compelling themes, and some of his plays do have a very somber tone, it’s interesting to see how many of his oft-quoted lines actually appear in
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