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Is It Okay to Have a Drink While You’re Pregnant?0
- Science
- February 4, 2016
On Tuesday, the CDC released a controversial statement on women and alcohol. In it, they recommended that all women who are sexually active, fertile, and don’t use birth control should stop drinking… RIGHT. NOW. Why? Because of the risk that these bibulous women might give potentially unplanned children fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), apparently now known
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5 Habits That Propelled Rockefeller to Fame and Fortune0
- Economics
- February 3, 2016
For many, the name John D. Rockefeller conjures up images of a wealthy but monopolizing oil tycoon. But while many might have an unfavorable opinion of Rockefeller, they would likely be eager to know how to follow in his steps, particularly in regard to money-making. In his work entitled Random Reminiscences of Men and Events,
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Liberty Depends on ‘Civil Society’0
- Politics
- February 3, 2016
Among the relatively few college students exposed to it, the concept of “civil society” often puts them to sleep. It’s not exciting for people to hear that “civil society” refers to all those “mediating institutions” (another snoozer) between government and the individual, such as family, church, voluntary associations, and charitable organizations. American political debates today
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Parents Are Paying $180/Hr for THIS?!?0
- Education
- February 3, 2016
“Executive function” training is apparently the latest “it” thing to improve student performance, and parents are shelling out the big bucks for it. What is it? According to NPR, executive function tutors work with students to improve organization and judgment skills such as “attention and focus, working memory, impulse control and self-evaluation.” In the NPR
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Harvard Professor: Discrimination Not the Cause of ‘Gender Pay Gap’0
- Culture
- February 3, 2016
During the last seven years, the Obama presidency has faithfully recognized “Equal Pay Day,” the date on which “we mark how far into the new year women would have to work just to earn the same as men did in the previous year.” According to President Obama, the fact that “women earn 78 cents for
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Repeating the Original Sin0
- February 3, 2016
Even if you’re not religious, you should know your religious mythology. As many of the great thinkers of the past recognized, the mythological stories offered (or expressed) important archetypes for understanding our present world. For instance, in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche interprets human life as a struggle between the Apollonian (rational) and Dionysian (irrational)
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