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The Enduring Lessons of the Battle of Cable Street, 80 Years On

The infamous 1936 confrontation between ordinary Londoners and fascists is still significant

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In Hillsdale College, a ‘Shining City on a Hill’ for Conservatives

To the erudite right, this Michigan college is what higher education should be: classical study, with no federal regulation.

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America’s Great Working-Class Colleges

Dozens of colleges are vaulting thousands of low-income students into the middle class and beyond, and yet are being starved of funding.

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Core training doesn't have to be limited to crunches and planks. Here are some exercises to add to your routine.

pay no attention to the picture. (if there is one?) the exercises are about working out to be able to do harder work outs

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interview with the founder of Stop It Now! organization

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Biologists are working on a replacement for slow, stodgy peer review. It's a rainbow unicorn.

The spread of knowledge in the life sciences is about to mash down the accelerator.

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The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind

Neurologist Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process he almost lost his mind.

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it’s a pdf on how chemistry education in the US kind of sucks and really isn’t teaching science that well. It’s pretty interesting and felt true to my frustrations with chemistry.

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Review: Baaba Maal, 'The Traveller'

On his first album since 2009, the Senegalese legend seeks a balance between his instantly wrenching voice and the modern tools he uses to enhance it.

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For Teenagers, Adult-Sized Opioid Addiction Treatment Doesn't Fit

Teenage brains are more susceptible to drug abuse, but it's often hard to find treatment. It's even harder to find evidence-based treatment designed for youth. But that's starting to change.

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Rare Common Ground: Gun Dealers And Public Health Workers Unite To Cut Suicides

Specialists say there's good reason to think point-of-sale prevention at gun shops can make a meaningful dent in curbing suicides.

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Gamers Have Become the New Religious Right

There was a time back when I was a teenager when I could always count on organized protestors of a particular religious bent to get together and try to shut something down. Usually it was something they hadn’t even seen or heard or read, and I know that’s true because...

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You can cram 150 “convicts” into a converted gym and make them sleep on triple bunks, and they will develop a way to get along without violence. They will make rules, carve out territory, and respect boundaries. Anyone who breaks the rules may be forced to do a few burpees or even get “checked” (punched), but the rules are clear. If you put 150 CEOs or MacArthur geniuses in the same space, they wouldn’t do half as well.

James Kilgore homepage Freedom Never Rests (originally in The Chronicle of Higher Education. What I Learned in Prison by James Kilgore (via protoslacker)

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Cornell Chronicle: Daily news from Cornell University

Because I think a certain percentage of vocal vegans on tumblr got REALLY into Cowspiracy, here are some facts. That being said, turning to veganism for moral reasons is environmentally awesome and pretty damn healthy.