Education

What talk of brainwashing helps us not to talk about.

Today is April 1, April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery. But why? Where did this faux holiday come from? Why do we do this to each other, and when will we finally just stop?

Common knowledge says the maximum size of PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

In a grim irony, his descendants – my grandmother and mother – struggled with drink. Here’s what I’d tell him about addiction.

Surveys in 36 countries find that Christianity and Buddhism have the biggest losses from ‘religious switching.’

On Donald Trump’s first day in office, the Department of Defense announced a spate of hires, including 26-year-old Kingsley Wilson, who will serve as the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary.

In a new book, Elaine Pagels searches for the narrative origins of Jesus’s most wondrous acts. How should we understand miracles? Many people in the near and distant past have believed in them; many still do.

It was 1988. My first year as a high school English teacher in a girls’ school had just ended. I was heading to Alabama for my wedding when the head of the school called me to his office to announce a temporary reassignment for the following fall. “Ms.

‘The human family’, Henry Drummond wrote in The Ascent of Man (1894), is ‘the starting-point and threshold of the true moral life’. Man carries ‘old wild blood in his veins’, while woman makes a home: her passivity is ‘the embryo of patience’.

At age forty, I took an intelligence test. Not the standardized IQ, but a newer assessment created by Harvard doctor Howard Gardner. Dr.