Culture

Just Because We Can Create Genetically Modified Babies Doesn’t Mean We Should 0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos who were successfully nurtured to birth, and the worldwide scientific community roundly rejected this experiment as a violation of ethics. In turn, the Chinese government condemned the doctor and called for an immediate investigation. At issue is
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Too Busy? You Might Have Action Bias.0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
The greeting starts out routine. You bump into a friend at the grocery store and they ask how you are. You find yourself thinking you aren’t that busy, at least, not enough to describe how you are. Things have settled down and work and family are status quo. Do you hesitate to say it… that
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Can Your Heart Grow Three Sizes? A Doctor’s Take on ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
At the beginning of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the green, pot-bellied, feline-faced Grinch is a bitter, foul-tempered misanthrope whose heart is “two sizes too small.” In the middle of the story, he plots to steal all the Christmas gifts in Whoville and toss them from a cliff. At the end, having learned
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Is Everything Old Bad?0
- Culture
- December 17, 2018
National Review recently ran a piece headlined “Everything Old is Bad, a Continuing Series at Vox.” In that piece, author Charles C. W. Cooke took the left-leaning website to task for claiming that the requirement that a President of the United States be 35 or older is nothing more than a “weird” historical hangover “handed
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The People of Venezuela Are Starving. Why Did Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn Support Their Oppressors?1
- Culture
- December 14, 2018
Would you use a doctor or dentist who didn’t believe in germ theory and used the same instruments all day without sterilizing them? What would you say if, when their patients developed infections, the doctor or dentist insisted he meant well and argued that capitalism, not germs, causes infections? Allowing such a practitioner to keep
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School Bans Designer Coats in Order to ‘Poverty Proof’ Campus 0
- Culture
- December 14, 2018
Winter is coming, and colder temperatures mean that our coats and scarves have been pulled from their summer resting places and put to good use once more. But if you’re a parent in the United Kingdom, you might want to think twice before you send your kids off to school in their favorite winter coats.
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