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  • Want More Women in Technical Fields? Get the Government Out of the Way.

    Want More Women in Technical Fields? Get the Government Out of the Way.0

    A while back, a friend of mine was telling me how he had spent a fair amount of time doing some mechanical work on his car. Hearing this, I made a comment about how nice it was that he could pass this knowledge on to his sons. He smiled and said, “You know the funny

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  • Border Walls Many Americans Don’t Know Exist

    Border Walls Many Americans Don’t Know Exist0

    With all the talk about Trump and his immigration policies, there seems to be a mentality that building a literal wall at a nation’s border is a novel idea. It really isn’t.  Throughout history, and especially in recent years, there has been an uptick in nations that are strengthening security along their borders. In the past

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  • I Used to Loathe Guns and the NRA -Then I Got Mugged0

    I’d hated guns since I was a teenager. It was a gun that killed John Lennon, after all. Guns killed President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. Get rid of the guns, problem solved, or so I thought. In December of 2012, I even tweeted President Barack Obama, urging him to

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  • Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’: The Science Fiction Masterpiece You Probably Haven’t Read

    Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’: The Science Fiction Masterpiece You Probably Haven’t Read0

    What if we could use science to predict the future of humankind and, thereby, prevent the collapse of civilization as a result of wars, economic crises or any other unforeseen event that could endanger its existence? This is the starting point of the Foundation saga, a series of seven books written by the brilliant and

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  • Odd Things People Say to Families with Lots of Children

    Odd Things People Say to Families with Lots of Children0

    Several of Intellectual Takeout’s Alcuin Fellows come from big families – one from a family of twelve children, the other from a family of thirteen. Because of this, we recently started swapping stories about the strange things people say when they realize the size of our crews. We get it. We’re a bit of a

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  • You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now

    You Can’t Leave the U.S. Unless the IRS Lets You Now0

    When it comes to human migration, nearly everything we hear nowadays in relation to the United States and Europe is related to immigration into North America and Europe. Historically, however, governments have often been as concerned with emigration as they have been with immigration. This is not surprising since government have always attempted to “monopolize

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