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The Museum of Science's new exhibit, Macro or Micro? Challenging our Perceptions of Scale, invites us to contemplate images on a mind-blowing scale, whether extremely magnified or taken from outer space. The title refers to the exhibit's family-friendly visitor challenge to try and distinguish whether a
Commentary
If memory serves correctly, it is a favorite rhetorical strategy among US history teachers to smugly inform their students that we do not actually live in a democracy [shock!]. Next, they say that we actually live in a republic [groan!], and a lesson in political theory ensues. Briefly, in a
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Any person, moderately informed on a topic of current interest, will have experienced the Brandolini law, which can be paraphrased as: the amount of energy necessary to refute a false claim is an order of magnitude bigger than what it took to produce it. And if that individual happened to
Bernie Sanders
"They were happy and lively times … we were alert … to what was happening to people, to poor people, all over the world … I think we really did try to understand how the different economic systems works, and the politics of our nations, and we wanted to see America change,
NewBostonPost
The recent discovery of 10 lost plays by the beloved mystery writer Agatha Christie highlights a lucrative trend in the publishing world. In this year alone, a host of "newly discovered" writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dr. Seuss have enjoyed considerable