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1) The Atlantic attempted a definition of “cool” this week, and it runs in tow with Shane Snow’s definition of humor in the New Yorker. Whereas humor can be defined as “benign violation,” cool is defined by Derek Thompson...

7 Toxic Ideas Polluting Your Mind David Murray: The worst kind of poison is the kind that poisons you without you realizing it. There’s no bitter taste, no pain, no sudden weakness, nothing to alarm; yet, the poison is slowly and steadily...

By Professor Pius Adesanmi Winner, the Penguin Prize for African Writing Author of You’re Not a Country, Africa! Keynote lecture delivered at the 8th MSU Africanist Graduate Research Conference, Lansing, Michigan, November 17, 2014 (We just lost...

Time. Pencils down. As a nation, we’ve sweated over tests, dissected underperforming schools, gutted standards and curricula, and rinsed and repeated. We’ve thrown the classroom desk-chair at the problem and still earn no better than a C-minus when it...

Current affairs daily news July 2015 July 30, 2015 ISRO and NASA are jointly working on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission to codevelop and launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite. Indian Railways’s Operating...