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ISIS routinely traffics and sells captured women and girls. Is buying them back fueling more terrorism?
As we all still recover from the Paris attacks, remember the beauty and joy of one of the most forgotten French discoveries. “Truth is more valuable if it takes you […]
We really did design the world in our own image. “Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.” -Albert Camus Whenever we […]
The ad has been praised for its inclusivity, but it's more transgressive than that.
And what technology will it take for us to get there? “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on […]
Climate change will hurt farmers, although not all equally. American farmers won't have it nearly as bad as African ones.
His words give those of us with creative and depressive tendencies hope, perspective, and a sense of camaraderie.
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One turkey. Two types of muscles. Two different temperatures needed to cook properly. Put away the roasting pan and get ready to spatchcock the bird.
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Archetypes are dull as ditchwater. The 'Cloud Atlas' author is much fonder of nuance.
Terrorists exploit the “glamor of action movies, video games, and gangsta rap.” Counterterrorist efforts somehow have to counter that glamorization.
When we fear, we band together, and more readily treat people in other tribes as the enemy.
We need to talk openly about the world we live in because evil thrives on silence and secrecy. I’d go so far as to say that it can’t exist without them.
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And because of it, we can learn about quantum entanglement across a black hole’s event horizon. This article was contributed to Starts With A Bang by Sabine Hossenfelder, whose blog, Backreaction, […]
Those who want to keep Syrian refugees out of the country are succumbing to a classic error of logical reasoning. 
The Star Trek actor has some words on invoking Japanese internment camps in the context of the current Syrian refugee conversation.
Many parents in China seek to teach their kids valuable coding skills, and they're not the only ones.
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Renowned medical researcher Dr. Rudolph Tanzi takes you on a tour of the brain, and explains why positive thinking might be the best gift you can give your genes this holiday season.
France is welcoming Syrian refugees, but the U.S. is frightened. Have we forgotten who we are and how we got here? 
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Propaganda is nothing new — it's as old as politics itself — but adding the connective power of the Internet to the equation reveals an entirely new level of media that ISIS is all too happy to exploit.