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It doesn't matter if negative stereotypes are false. They still do damage.
6mins
There's a deep psychological reason that America treats nuclear weapons like a spoiled child hogging all the neighborhood candy. Are we too paranoid to see it?
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In ten years, everything could be very different... while on the surface being as recognizable as possible.
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Outraged by something on the internet? Yawn. You may be simply falling for a very old trick... and becoming a run-of-the-mill bully in the process.
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The stats on teens transitioning out of foster care aren't good. Can we empower these young people to build futures to look forward to?
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Why doesn't America win wars anymore? Because the objectives are so poorly defined. Maybe it's time to rethink foreign policy.
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Recent research shows that suicidal behavior is a social contagion that spreads through families and classrooms. The good news? So does suicide prevention.
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Why might America's respect for its military be a mile wide but less than an inch thick? Less than one half of one percent of its population serves, making civilians more cavalier about deployment.
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It's somewhat of a given that over the course of your life, you'll lose your hearing to some degree. But that doesn't necessarily have to be the case.
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Everyone thinks they know how to make their brain more creative and have better ideas.
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Religion as a belief system goes back hundreds of thousands of years. So why are so many of the religious peoples of today so focused on a supposed God that goes back only 5,000 years? The answer lies in how our brains work.
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Two-thirds of the achievement gap for American children is due to the "summer learning loss". Here's how we fix that.
And thanks to Alvin Plantinga, they have a rational conversation.
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Religion influences politics more now than it did 50 years ago. Are we going forward or backward?
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The big, unknowable questions in life are seductive, but without small, trivial questions as insulation, those large mysteries can consume us.
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When it comes to ISIS, terrorism, and global and domestic instability, America has been its own worst enemy.
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Raising money for charity is one thing. Knowing where to give it is another. When some charities are 100 times more effective than others, a world champion poker player knows how to spot who's bluffing.
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If you want to feel less pain, meditate more often. According to this new research, it can genuinely erase the emotional reaction to pain. And since it's long been said by coaches and some doctors that most pain is within the mind, here's scientific proof to back that assertion up.
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One prominent mathematician asks: was Einstein such a smartypants after all?