The Trump administration has been holding migrant children -whether they came to the U.S. alone or were forcibly separated from their guardians – in a network of makeshift tent camps. An unnamed official at the Department of Health and Human Services told NBCNews that housing costs $775 per child per day. That’s more than a …
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Letter to The Guardian: “Your article on “zero heroes” ( e.g zero emission champions) was worthy but it tiptoed around the main factor causing increased global pollution: increasing human numbers. Progressives often parade their environmental concerns loudly, but are strangely silent on the question of population growth. How can we get on top of warming …
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Unbelievably, The Independent newspaper recently offered the following tips on dating behaviour: Even if the conversation has run dry within 15 minutes, do not do a runner. It’s just mean and rude. No “negging” – handing out backhanded compliments to gain the psychological upper hand. Although recommended by pick-up “experts”, it usually backfires for those …
Walter Isaacson, biographer ofAlbert Einstein, writes the following (page 550): Perhaps the most important aspect of his personality was his willingness to be non- conformist. “The theme I recognise in Galileo’s work” , he said, “ is the passionate fight against any kind of dogma based on authority”. Plank, Poincare and Lorentz all came close …
Copthorne Primary school in West Yorkshire, UK, has banned its pupils from using the word “like” as a filler. In future, those who pepper their sentences with “likes” will be asked to spend five minutes thinking about how they might have expressed themselves better. The verbal tic is thought to be spreading thanks to shows …
