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>I have a playlist where I pull in my favorites from Discover Weekly Do you do this manually, or use the API?

>The reason for this lies in the fact that, as the Romans said in the past, Nil nove sul sole This is from the Old Testament. http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/1-9.htm

>You're ignoring the fact that religions haven't been able to convincingly answer any of these questions, either. Else there wouldn't be so many of them and they wouldn't be having…

I don't think it's an accident that a modern, secular framework hasn't arisen to replace traditional religion. For what resources could a framework draw upon? The founding principl…

>'If there's no major reduction in Government loans and grants, we're in good shape,' said Donald Routh, dean for financial aid. 'If there are reductions, then we have some very re…

Then what is behind the rise of the Islamic State's recruiting, whose targets aren't suffering any obvious economic strife? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/world/middleeast/from-…

There seems to exist this technocratic fancy about "critical thinking." As if it were a discrete group of rules which could be cultivated in students by simply sitting them down in…

One less obvious area in which Kuhn has exerted tremendous influence, and one not mentioned in this story, is on philosophy, and especially the history of ethics. Alasdair MacIntyr…

Anyone interested in the necessity of understanding history for philosophical and moral thinking ought to read MacIntyre's Whose Justice, Which Rationality. It argues that a "histo…

>What if the fence was put there for purposes of adverse posession? Answering that question is the very reason for pausing to investigate its purpose. Questioning past purposes bef…

I find it funny that so much scientific research attempts to prove the existence of a biological contrast that's blatantly obvious, but which has been completely deconstructed and …

>John Bunch, technical adviser at Zappos and leader of the Holacracy transition ...right

"Is Marriage for White People?" attempts to answer that question. As I remember it, the main answer was that black women don't want to date outside their race. http://www.amazon.co…

The idea that boys need exposure to women before adulthood, with the exception of their mother, is a relatively modern one. The extent to which the modern west mixes the sexes thro…

>The N.Y.U. political psychologist John Jost made the point even more strongly, calling Haidt’s remarks “armchair demography.” Jost wrote, “Haidt fails to grapple meaningfully with…

>It's 2014, I thought the sillyness about being addicted to video games and computer was over. Apparently not. It's never going to be over, as long as young children have access to…