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These days it is hard to meet people, never mind to meet people that are completely sincere and honest.  Many people are self-centered and only think of themselves and narcissistic...

A Science project in a classroom is the perfect example of why washing your hand is essential. Jaralee Annice Metcalf, a Behavioral Specialist, at an elementary school, not a fancy...

TweetWhat do you want to know about education in a time of pandemic? We put that question to Have You Heard listeners, then rounded up an all-star cast of experts with answers. Should...

TweetThis isn’t the first time schools have shuttered in the wake of a pandemic. Resident education historian Jack Schneider on what we can learn from school closures past. Meanwhile...

I’m guessing that the overall deaths in the USA will be down this year compared to previous years. My line of reasoning is that all of the social distancing and hand washing and soaking...

What’s that smell? That smelly smell that smells? Pee-Yew! Yesterday Ex Prezzy Barry Obama FINALLY endorsed Joe Biden for President. It didn’t matter that Joe was his VP for eight...

If it serves progressives politically to have people out of work, miserable, starving, then they are consciously serving the interests of the country which spawned the virus, Communist...

On today's BradCast: The U.S. and world economies continue to collapse amid ridiculous happy talk largely from the President and his GOP pals, as the suffering of millions of Americans...

We catch up with a bit of listener mail at the top of today's BradCast before moving on to the huge story out of Wisconsin, where, according to results finally announced Monday night...

As reported by the Associated Press and published in the New York Times.

AA - Wildfire nears Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine - Elena Teslova Reuters - Fire raging near Ukraine's Chernobyl poses radiation risk, say activists - By Margaryta Chornokondratenko...

Google has been ordered to turn over all Hillary Clinton emails from a Gmail account believed to contain backups to communications from her personal server which her IT specialist...

In the Soviet Union, activists were sent to state psychiatric wards. According to the state, any and all opposition to government policy was considered a form of mental illness...

By Matthew Warren. Tongue-in-cheek "Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire" developed to highlight limitations of social media addiction scales.

By Jesse Singal. Even judgments about free will can’t escape the gut-impulse nature that underlies so much human moralising.

In late-March, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced Boulder, Colorado, to close all non-essential businesses, the city’s bustling pedestrian hub for food and shopping, Pearl Street...

In Azerbaijan, the art of carpet weaving is one of the most important aspects of culture and history. So naturally, the country is home to a museum dedicated to carpets and rugs—at...

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Dan Gardner writes that the COVID-19 pandemic is exactly the type of rare but severe event which should be the subject of thorough...

Cat amid mayhem.