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How Regulations Destroy Education 1
- Education, MomThink
- October 10, 2024
Amanda Lucas tried to do everything right. A teacher in both public charter and private schools for about 10 years, Lucas felt the tug toward entrepreneurship. She wanted to open her own school, one that would focus on individualized curriculum in an intentionally small learning environment for elementary and middle school-age students. All of them
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Nature’s Medicine: Food 16
- MomThink, Featured, Health, Science
- October 8, 2024
It’s tomato season on our hobby farm. This year I planted an unprecedented variety of tomatoes since I got some for free from the local feed store. So into the ground they went. I figured if I got some fruit, great, and if not, it was worth a try anyway. I’m pretty relaxed about my
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A Soldier’s Battle With COVID Vaccine Injury 4
- Science, Featured, Health, MomThink
- October 7, 2024
Shannon Safford wanted to serve her country as a member of the United States Army, but in order to do so, she was required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine that would ultimately end her active service. She received the shot on deployment to Kuwait and began developing strange symptoms: She had menstrual issues, digestive problems,
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Don’t Skip the Boring Parts 2
- Literature, Featured, MomThink
- October 3, 2024
When I taught literature, I had to frequently remind my students not to skip the “boring parts” of the books—things like long paragraphs describing scenery in Dickens’ Oliver Twist or the long list of ships that appears near the beginning of The Iliad. I understand the temptation. When I was their age, I frequently skimmed
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Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children 0
- Education, MomThink
- October 1, 2024
Last week, my sons’ school went into lockdown. It wasn’t a drill. There was a real threat. Two high school-aged students, a boy and a girl, were discussing an alleged fight on social media when one of them wrote, “I’m shooting up the school at 9.” Thankfully, someone reported this information to the school, and the
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A Delicate Balance: What to Make of the Link Between Falling Bat Populations and Rising Infant Mortality 1
- Featured, MomThink, Science
- September 30, 2024
A fascinating study recently published in Science found that human lives may depend on the fate of bats. Not directly, of course. Rather, it’s the bat’s unique role in the ecosystems they inhabit that’s important for us. As a result, the decline of bat populations endangers human populations in an unexpected manner. The link between
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