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the framing of this headline is ridiculous. corbyn's characterization as a "radical" is contradicted by this own article, which claims he wants to re-nationalize utilities. is nati…

rich white guy who is exxon movile executive says please don't stop him and his friends from ruining everbody's lives by hoarding wealth.

it seems unlikely that second place came from an equally or more disadvantaged background. chess in general is a pretty exclusionary. sure the kid (tani?) might not have been the w…

I agree this is an opinion that i've held for a long time. making the space of conversation more welcoming promotes free speech, however i'm slightly skeptical of the trans example…

This article is a little bit confusing to me, where did the 80% figure come from? is it just because those studies looked at one year? would the pay gap increase if longer term stu…

Well I'm glad Scott Hutchins is at least doing the bare minimum.

I don't think it's a conscious choice. I would think its a psychological phenomenon possibly more common in those who are naturally attention seeking but i doubt they intentionally…

I think this is fascinating, I think that ROGD could be a real thing but nipping science because it's politically inconvenient is not a good thing to do and has disastrous conseque…

Just sort of baseless optimism on my part I guess.

I don't see the government paying for my college... In my experience a majority of my friends have or are on track to have student debt from having to pay for college.

While Fox News's twitter may not actively generate revenue i would think that it adds value to the company that's not easy to measure.

It is my suspicion that the attitude of american students towards their professors is perhaps a function of the privatization of schools. since students are paying for their educat…

I expected it to be the same in America, unfortunately this was not the case. I don't know what it is but nobody in my social circles seemed to even know that this was going on.

Chess is a game that can be played perfectly. There is no perfect Hockey game. If you get two super computers to play chess against one another they will draw a majority of the tim…

as an american i'm a bit disappointed that Caruana didn't win, that being said i think Carlsen is definitely a better player.

i really enjoyed this article and i think that chess players were a perfect case study for this sort of thing, i wonder though how applicable this is to other games or every day li…

It was always my assumption that the name "Koch" was pronounced like "coke", with a hard c and silent h as opposed to the ch in church.

I would consider supporting limiting anti-vaxxers free speech on the grounds that it endangers people.