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We've come a long way in the world of education. Some of these 1953 school supplies may surprise you. Others you might still use today.
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The University of California-Santa Barbara is enlisting students to become residence hall "sexperts" and teach fellow students how to have sex — and it's all being funded through mandatory student services fees, The College Fix reports.
Residence hall students are encouraged to complete the school's "Safer Sex Peers Certification Training" for the chance to become an official Safer Sex Peer. ... Read more
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Parents of students at a high school near Houston, Texas, were outraged and confused over a homework assignment which included a question about rape. The question was a part of a biology DNA assignment at Klein Collins High School. ... Read more
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A U.S. government program is using more than $15 million in taxpayer money to send hundreds of foreign students to community college. Upon completion of the program, the students will “return home with new skills and expertise to help them contribute to the economic growth and development of their country.”
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is warning international students that federal immigration officials may visit their work sites to verify that their employment is directly related to their studies.
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Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events on crime, entertainment, and more.
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Younger folks have come of age during an era of consumer debt.
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"A record number of schools are dropping the SAT/ACT requirement in admissions, marking a significant shift in how they gauge the value of students."
Predictable. As college's move from educational institutions to indoctrination centers, they need to let in more and more people who will 1) help fill their coffers and drink the kool-aid and 2) crowd/drown out "undesirables"--people who are there to actually get degrees and get on with life. ... Read more
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Muslims who leave Islam usually take months or years to abandon their faith in Muhammad and the Quran. Occasionally, however, a Muslim will leave Islam almost instantly, perhaps in 15 minutes or less. How do some Muslims become ex-Muslims so quickly? Why is leaving Islam so easy for some? David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) explains.
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After drawing attention to Iran's "Death to America!" slogan in yesterday's video, I received a number of messages from Iranians who wanted us all to know that most Iranians are not anti-American. Interestingly, Iranians also love David Wood!
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Can gun safety training, conflict resolution, and a larger number of concealed carry permits actually help reduce crime? Maj Toure, rapper and founder of Black Guns Matter, joins Candace Owens for a conversation on the Second Amendment and how it empowers minorities.
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The Irish minister for education has unveiled plans for twenty female-only professorships as part of the government’s strategy to tackle gender discrimination in the sector.
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A Muslim in the comments section of my video "Five Reasons the Quran Is Not the Word of God" recently vowed to kill himself if I could show him a source saying that Muhammad had sex with his slave-girl. I had to tell him that no one wants him to do that and that he should promise not to commit suicide. ...
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Earlier today, Major General Qassim Suleimani, who led the powerful Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and has been called the second most powerful man in Iran, was killed in a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport. President Donald Trump ordered the attack. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a statement calling for three days of public mourning and then retaliation. ...
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Michael Moore, a white leftist, in a stunning and brave display of racism-veiled-as-righteousness, says we should be afraid of white people. Your woke-meter toppleth over, Mr. Moore! Here's your award. 🏆
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Researchers at the UK’s University of Cambridge have created a new software technology that treats online “hate speech” as a computer “virus” or “malware.”
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‘Climate strike’, a form of protest that took off just over one year ago with the actions of Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg and which has grown to become a worldwide movement, has been named Collins’ Word of the Year 2019.
‘Climate strike’ was first registered in November 2015 when the first event to be so named took place to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, but it is over the last year that ‘climate strikes’ have spread and become a frequent reality in many of the world’s largest cities. Collins’ lexicographers observed a one-hundred-fold increase in its usage in 2019. ... Read more
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The word upcycling – defined as the activity of making new furniture, objects, etc. out of old or used things or waste material – received more likes than any other Word of the Day (it was shared on 4 July 2019).
We think that our fans resonated with upcycling not as a word in itself but with the positive idea behind it. ... Read more
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Our Word of the Year for 2019 is they. It reflects a surprising fact: even a basic term—a personal pronoun—can rise to the top of our data. Although our lookups are often driven by events in the news, the dictionary is also a primary resource for information about language itself, and the shifting use of they has been the subject of increasing study and commentary in recent years. Lookups for they increased by 313% in 2019 over the previous year.
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Climate emergency is defined as ‘a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.’
This year, heightened public awareness of climate science and the myriad implications for communities around the world has generated enormous discussion of what the UN Secretary-General has called ‘the defining issue of our time’. ... Read more |
