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Solving Voting: Vote FAST and With CONFIDENCE Got your ballot in the mail? Overwhelmed? With 14 propositions and dozens of candidates, voting feels like a huge challenge. Today, let’s tackle one of democ...

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The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors Tolstoy holds a eleven point lead over Shakespeare in these literary opinion polls

19 of the Greatest Philosophers (Ranked by Hotness)

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C.S. Lewis on Why We Read How great books both change us and make us more ourselves.

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23 fascinating charts on language - these visual representations show interesting aspects of how people communicate via language

23 maps and charts on language Did you know that Swedish has more in common with Hindi than it does with Finnish?

Did you think you were reading the original Grimm's Fairy Tales? Turns out the tales as we know them today are edited and censored editions! Even if you were reading the Little Red Riding Hood version where the wolf's belly is cut open and then filled with rocks by the huntsman, you probably could not imagine the extent of the gruesome details.

Today's Fairy Tales Started Out (Even More) Dark And Harrowing Evil figures prominently in favorite bedtime stories. But a new translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's tales reveals exactly how un-sanitized and murderous these stories once were.

A great argument for the necessity of philosophy towards a better world. "The study of philosophy, the “love of wisdom,” creates and nurtures thoughtful minds, minds that can — as Aristotle suggests — entertain a thought without accepting it. " While there are scarce opportunities for that in today's schools, Conversera offers exactly that - learning to entertain a thought, to inquire, to understand the historical development of thought. Come see for yourself!

For a Better Society, Teach Philosophy in High Schools The past few years give one the suspicion that American society is dysfunctional. Our Congress is useless, our institutions inept. Faced with the terror of existence, young men like Adam Lanza react with violence. Faced with manageable problems such as a "fiscal cliff," our democracy self-destructs.…

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Should the great works of literature, art, film and science be restricted and censored in order to avoid potentially offending people? Can we study the works whole and unchanged in order to enrich our understanding of what has come before us? What are your thoughts?

Liberals Are Killing the Liberal Arts Harvey Silverglate says that censorship on campuses is getting so bad that discussions of what can’t be said come with a ‘trigger warning.’