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29Sep/160

Watch Free Educational Movies Online: The Top 20 Websites

The Web is a virtual goldmine of great resources for educators. About.com shows you to where to pick up some multimedia for the classroom or home.

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28Sep/160

Braggadocious? Here are 7 other archaic words for Trump: Menon | Toronto Star

Good fun.  However the facts remain.  Mr. Trump, like Mr. Hitler, would be just another ass-hole with a very bad hair cut if his antics were not resonating with many millions of people.  Mr. Trump is not the problem.  The problems are the millions resonating with him, and the economic and cultural factors spawning them.

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Donald Trump had viewers reaching for their dictionaries during this week’s debate. Here are a few more words his followers should consider.

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27Sep/160

Serena Williams vows: ‘I won’t be silent’ on police violence – BBC News

Serena Williams speaks out against law enforcement brutality, quoting Martin Luther King as she says: "There comes a time when silence is betrayal".

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27Sep/160

A Toilet, but No Proper Plumbing: A Reality in 500,000 U.S. Homes – The New York Times

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26Sep/160

Syria conflict: Obama ‘deeply concerned’ about Aleppo – BBC News

US President Barack Obama expresses deep concern about the "sickening bloodshed" in rebel-held parts of Aleppo, amid an assault by Syrian government forces.

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26Sep/160

Hail, and farewell — it’s been swell: Fiorito | Toronto Star

A few brief memories, and a word or two of thanks, as I hang up my columnist’s hat.

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26Sep/160

Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President – The New York Times

Donald Trump is a man who dwells in bigotry, bluster and false promises.

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26Sep/160

Do dialect speakers get the same benefits as bilinguals? | Aeon Essays

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This argument contradicts notions I have put forward about the negative consequences of multilingualism and multiculturalism.  There may be a way to combine both possibilities. As well, if executive function improvements (and resistance to dementia) can be discerned in multilinguals, does this not suggest that specialization and urbanization, which reduce requirements for executive functions, might not be toxic?

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25Sep/160

A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find

Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggest that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.

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24Sep/160

(3) Epistemic Pluralism, Epistemic Relativism and ‘Hinge’ Epistemology | J. Adam Carter – Academia.edu

According to Paul Boghossian (2006, 73) a core tenet of epistemic relativism is what he calls epistemic pluralism, according to which (i) 'there are many fundamentally different, genuinely alternative epistemic systems' , but (ii) 'no

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