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  • Laughing Our Way Through Coronavirus

    Laughing Our Way Through Coronavirus0

    With our country wrapped in the coils of coronavirus, April has brought its usual splendors to Virginia: brown lawns turned green, forsythias in bloom, flowering dogwoods and Japanese maples, balmy temperatures and soft rains. The contrast between this wealth of ornamentation and a season of economic hardship, sickness, and fear – all caused by a

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  • The COVID-19 Edition of ‘Race to the Top’

    The COVID-19 Edition of ‘Race to the Top’0

    Remember the Common Core, the national curriculum standards that sparked a conflagration over who should control what every public school child in America would learn? If nothing else, you might recall a little Core comedy, though in many places the Core is still with us in various forms. What you might not recall is how

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  • The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man

    The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man4

    Little boys are sexist. At least, that’s what recent headlines want us to believe. A new study hit newsstands the other day, claiming that young children, boys especially, exhibit indicators of sexism even into early middle school. This sexism, however, is not likely to be aggressive, mean-spirited behavior toward females. In fact, it could be

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  • How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)

    How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)0

    In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay wrote, “During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was coming. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity.” During the COVID-19 crisis, there has been no shortage of

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  • China Is Working Overtime to Suppress Research About Coronavirus Origin

    China Is Working Overtime to Suppress Research About Coronavirus Origin0

    The lesson of history for tyrannical regimes is that the truth is dangerous. Clearly, the Chinese Communist Party knows this full well, which is why it’s working overtime to bury the truth as the world is mired in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. China has worked aggressively to suppress critical media and waged a widespread disinformation

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  • Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-19

    Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-190

    As we are all presently discovering, there are inherent risks built into the industrialized food system with its just-in-time delivery. In the last 150 years we have migrated away from growing our own food to relying on distant production facilities and long supply chains. This arrangement is highly efficient and profitable when times are good.

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