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Understanding your partner’s needs and tending to them will enable you to strengthen the bond between you and your partner. Males and females have very different needs when it comes...

We’re all gifted in some way or another. While some gifts are easily recognized, some are subtle and can even make you feel weird. Gifted people vary from being somewhat too intense...

TweetA consensus between Republicans and centrist Democrats around charter schools has been at the very center of education policy for the past three decades. Guest David Menefee-Libey...

TweetThe achievement gap has driven education reform for the past twenty years. Guest David Stevens says it’s time to stop talking about the achievement gap and focus instead on...

Note: The graphs in this post may require an administrator to be made visible, which I have requested. In the meantime, those graphs and more are at the link. (I take it back. It looks...

Weirdly enough – and this apparently happens to authors at random – I had a dream about the plot of a new book late this past summer and woke up just in time to remember it all. A novel...

Sentimental Statements on “Honoring” Ginsberg are Misplaced Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Kelly OConnell —— Bio and Archives—September 20, 2020   The...

Question: What American political entity has that relationship to BLM/Antifa?  Answer: The Democrat National Committee, et. al.  And you might as well sue Mao. Re-Posted from...

* * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...

We're off today, but we've got a BradCast 'RECOUNTED' for your listening pleasure, with two excellent recent interviews you may have missed --- or just need to hear again. [Audio link...

The UN General Assembly is holding a one-day high-level meeting today from 9am Eastern Time USA (3pm CET) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN. You can watch it on UNTV...

Malta has become the 45th state party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It deposited its instrument of ratification on 21 September 2020 as world leaders met...

Trailer for COUP 53, a new documentary on the joint CIA-MI6 operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran. The coup that toppled a democratically elected...

Utility companies worldwide have benefited at customers’ expense with the deployment of “Smart” Meters – electric, gas, and water. Tens of millions have already been...

By Emma Young. Neuroimaging findings suggest that effect of effortful cognitive processes depends on people's "moral default".

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When Katie Diez talks to me from her home in rural Oregon, the world is red with smoke. It’s mid-September, and wildfires have been raging across the West Coast for weeks. “The air...

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana earlier this year from ingesting...