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Forget Perfecting Humans, Let’s Just Replace Them0
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- September 2, 2015
Aldous Huxley famously opens Brave New World with a tour of a human hatchery wherein embryos are conditioned to be a part of certain classes of people, designed for specific tasks. Here’s a tease: ‘Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last,’ continued Mr. Foster, ‘out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into
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Why Is Everyone’s Stomach Hurting?1
- September 2, 2015
Food sensitivities abound, the colonoscopy business is thriving, and your buddy just gave up beer because it gives him abdominal pain. Seriously, what’s going on?!? The increased incidence of allergies and food sensitivities is mainly confined to industrialized countries. According to the CDC, “food allergies are a growing food safety and public health concern that
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Is Modern Man Suffering from a Lack of Passion?0
- September 1, 2015
It can be tempting to diagnose modern Western society as being hedonistic and intemperate with passion. Many perpetuate this diagnosis on the basis of such symptoms as the loosening of sexual mores, the prevalence of obesity, and the constant search for new forms of entertainment. But according to some modern social critics, it was not
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Can Today’s Schools Measure Up to This Class Schedule from 1918?0
- September 1, 2015
Have you ever wondered how one-room school teachers managed to teach eight grades at the same time, while also managing to give students a pretty high-quality education? The chart below sheds some light on the answer to that question. Published in the 1918 Minnesota Course of Study for Elementary Schools and Manual for Teachers, this
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Explaining the Suffering of Small Children0
- September 1, 2015
One of the perennially difficult questions for Christians to answer is how a good God can allow bad things to happen, how he can allow evil to exist. A standard Christian explanation is that people are supposed to trust that these evil things are part of a divine plan, that God allows evil because he
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Parents Have a Right to Choose… the School to Which Their Child is Assigned0
- September 1, 2015
Should parents have the right to choose which school their child attends? Conventional wisdom says “yes,” and the court system agrees… but surprisingly only to a certain extent. According to Jacob Gershman at The Wall Street Journal: “Courts have said parents can’t be denied the right to choose to enroll their children in private schools.
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