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Starting this long weekend off with a good cup of tea and some studying. I'm reading Freakenomics for my AP language and composition class and all I'm doing is identifying the 3 major appeals- pathos, ethos, and logos. Then for the rest of the day ill be relaxing and reading Clockwork Princess (again) because its rainy and I have no other obligations.

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5 Podcasts for your Commute

Podcasts are making a comeback

Listening to the radio is lame, chances are your local stations play the same bland music on repeat, sometimes it’s the same song on multiple channels at the same time. Luckily, most people have a smartphone and the ability the listen to music from your phone through your car. Applications such as I-tunes for Iphone and Podcast Republicfor Android make it easy to…

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Recall that the 2005 bestseller Freakonomics made a huge splash with the claim that Roe v. Wade was responsible for the drop in crime America experienced starting in the 1990s. The theory, simplified for space, was that fewer unwanted babies began to be born after 1973. These aborted babies did not turn 18 in 1991, and accordingly did not commit crimes, leading to the dramatic drop in crime experienced in the 1990s.

It turns out that the study on which the Freakonomics authors based their chapter on abortion and crime was authored by none other than Jonathan Gruber (and others). In their 1998 paper, Gruber and his co-authors concluded that “we find that for the marginal child not born due to increased abortion access, the odds of living in a single parent family would have been roughly 70 percent higher, the odds of living in poverty nearly 40 percent higher, the odds of welfare receipt 50 percent higher. . . . From these results, we estimate that the legalization of abortion saved the federal government over $14 billion in welfare payments through 1994.”

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Dr. Stuart Walker rethinks the triple bottom line of sustainability that we are taught in school and takes a look at the huge global changes that have happened over the last few centuries with emphasis on how to get back on track.

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