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Francis Galton, the father of eugenics and, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, Charles Darwin’s cousin, hypothesized that monarchs should live longer than other…
Did you know that the planet has been cooling since at least 2003? Or that the arctic ice cap is…
Approximately $60 billion is spent every year on television advertising. That’s $200 for every man, woman, and child. It is…
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It began with shouts—foul and violent verbal attacks. Then the assaults became physical. Rioters threw hot coffee on people and…
I recently told you about the plight of Christians in the Indian state of Orissa. What I called a “wave…
The movie Twilight made a staggering $70.6 million at the box office in its opening weekend. To give you some perspective on…
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When Ron Carter, a Nottingham professor, set out to write the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, he used a…
