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More guns means more murder

Undoubtedly, readers of the News-Optimist have heard about the tragedy in Sandy Hook, Conn. by now. ...

posted: December 19,2012

A country of lumberjacks and hockey players?

I wrote in my last column about Chinese history, because while we might not think about it, the...

posted: December 12,2012

Learn your stories

Regular readers of this column know I started writing a year ago about the experiences of new...

posted: December 5,2012

Entitlements vs. rights

As we all learned in social studies class, democracy is the worst political system, except all the...

posted: November 28,2012

Progress since the 1940s

In order to do research for a few stories recently, I found myself leafing through old copies of...

posted: November 21,2012

Prognosticators and Politicos

By now, we all know the result of the U.S. presidential election. After over a year of campaigning, ...

posted: November 14,2012

Terror, chaos and satyrs

The following is an ancient Greek story, but probably one that you didn’t hear in school (like any...

posted: August 22,2012

Politics and conspiracy theories

With the Olympics in high gear last week, I decided to base my column in a sport that wasn’t part...

posted: August 15,2012

We love a distraction — it’s better than real news.

I mentioned last week a psychology experiment that shows the subject a video of two teams quickly...

posted: August 6,2012

The game of catch and the dancing gorilla

There’s a classic psychology experiment that goes something like this. The subject is shown a video ...

posted: August 1,2012

Strive for humility, especially where science is concerned

It's strange the conversations one can have as a reporter. A while ago, I was speaking to someone...

posted: June 20,2012





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