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Silence is Very Important for Our Brains0
- Culture
- August 5, 2016
As the old saying goes, “Healthy body, healthy mind.” It’s become common knowledge that exercise does wonders for human beings in numerous different ways. Not only does it release endorphins, making us feel great, but it’s been seen to affect the brain in positive and sometimes unexpected ways. Now scientists are discovering that silence is one more
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10 Truth-Bombs Courtesy of Milton Friedman0
- Economics
- August 5, 2016
American economist Milton Friedman rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading critics of the prevailing economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, whose mixed economy model became the standard for many developed nations during and after the World War II-era. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family
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Solzhenitsyn: ‘The next war may well bury Western civilization forever’2
- Culture
- August 5, 2016
In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University. What he offered to the students and faculty some forty years ago was not your typical graduation speech filled with banal platitudes. Instead—in a perhaps unsurprising move for a Russian who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile—he offered them
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Skyrocketing College Costs Spur Education Alternatives0
- Education
- August 5, 2016
Recently several Intellectual Takeout team members attended an appointment at a university in the Twin Cities. While walking across campus, the subject of high college costs came up. According to one member of our group, annual tuition at his alma mater has nearly doubled in the handful of years since he attended. And his experience
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Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions0
- Western Civilization
- August 4, 2016
For centuries, philosophers have been using moral intuitions to reason about ethics. Today, some scientists think they’ve found a way to use psychology and neuroscience to undermine many of these intuitions and advance better moral arguments of their own. If these scientists are right, philosophers need to leave the armchair and head to the lab
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Are Schools Replacing Parents?0
- Culture
- August 4, 2016
The last few years have seen a good deal of conversation on education standards, spawned in large part by the arrival of Common Core. But according to the education site Chalkbeat, some states are instituting standards in far more than reading and math: “Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of
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