Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it, Italian researchers say.
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Here’s what gets lost when we rely on GPS
Brain behavior changes when people rely on turn-by-turn directions.
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Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage them to keep track of what they see. Yet just a few years ago, the Pentagon reportedly shut down another official program that investigated UFO sightings. What has changed? Is the U.S. military finally coming around to […]
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Julian Assange’s indictment ‘crosses a bright red line for journalists’
Press-rights advocates see serious danger in the charges that depict newsgathering as criminal acts.
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Former Gov. Kenneth Curtis and the emergence of the modern Maine government
He is the last governor of Maine to have been born at home, the last to have been raised on a farm and the last to have begun his education in a one room schoolhouse. He has, nevertheless been anything but primitive in his outlook, mindset and philosophy. Meet Kenneth Curtis, the Democrat who won […]
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Giving back in
The gesture by billionaire Robert F. Smith reverberates beyond the 396 young men who learned at their graduation last Sunday from Morehouse College that Smith is picking up the tab for their college loans. Early estimates are that Smith’s gift amounts to about $10 million, or about $25,000 per graduate. Critics of Smith are correct […]
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The forgotten history of Memorial Day
In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. The holiday was Memorial Day, and this year’s commemoration on May 27 marks the 151st anniversary of its official nationwide observance. The annual commemoration was born in the […]
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All gave some; some gave all
The total sacrifice of our American military in all wars is a staggering 1.3 million men and women. Many lay buried overseas and some in the sea.
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There’s no vaccine to prevent an epidemic of legislative stupidity
The Maine Senate voted on Tuesday to approve a bill, LD 798, eliminating religious and philosophical exemptions from vaccination requirements for children attending school in the state. The Senate’s 18-17 vote reversed the chamber’s previous stance on the measure earlier this month, squared its position with that of the House, and put the legislation on […]
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Sacred citizenship
A harsh reality for those of us who call ourselves moderates is that political polarization pushes us, first to the right, then to the left, into the uncomfortable corners where extremism lurks. I’m terribly uncomfortable when the issues of the day put me in the company of the far left or the far right. So […]