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Six Foolproof And Effective Things To Do To Bring Atheists Back To The Lord
A few years ago, I told my mother, a Christian woman from Mississippi who had freshly aged into her 60s, that I was an atheist. She didn’t speak to me for three days straight. I should be clearer—I actually told her, as we waited at the window of an Arby’s drive-thru, that God didn’t have…
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Cosmo Labels These People ‘America’s First Family’ … but of What? And Twitter Is Like, ‘Nah’
Cosmopolitan needs to get an award in trolling, because it has it down to a science. On the cover of the magazine’s November issue are six women who are not the first family who reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., but they were labeled “America’s First Family.” I get it. Do what you…
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Terrence Southern Wants to Fill the World With Black Scientists
What will it take for African Americans to close the achievement gap in science, technology, engineering and math? It’s a complex issue that experts say involves, among other factors, the public education system, poverty and teachers’ unconscious racial bias. So far, the solutions have been elusive. But there’s a consensus that mentorship is a key.…
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When It Comes to Politics and Sports, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson Are Doing It Wrong
American sports have always been a vast canvas upon which politicians can safely paint their personal theories of American life. Running for Congress and want to point out the abuses of management over labor? You can rail against the NFL’s decadeslong battle to hide the impact of concussions. Putting together a message of self-reliance and bootstrap…
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We Don’t All Look Alike, but if You Think We Do, Thank Racism
A recent New York Times article opens with a false dichotomy. Its peg is the overly forceful arrest of James Blake by a plainclothes police officer. The arrest, for which New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has since apologized, occurred when the biracial tennis star was mistaken for another black man suspected of ID…
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Ben Carson Might Want to Brush Up on the Long and Active History of Muslims in America
We are finding ourselves in yet another visceral episode of American-style anti-Muslim rage. If your local science-hacking Muslim teenager isn’t handcuffed for trying to take clocks to their next level, your friendly soapboxing Republican presidential candidate is telling him he can’t be president. Not surprisingly, there has been a complicated morass of Islamophobia for some…
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Ahmed Mohamed Officially Withdraws From School District, Visits Google’s Science Fair
Teen whiz Ahmed Mohamed was reportedly the center of attention at Google’s Science Fair, where he was one of almost two dozen finalists who came at the tech giant’s invitation, the New York Daily News reports. “Curious young scientists, inventors and builders like [Ahmed] should be encouraged and empowered,” Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American’s editor-in-chief, said…
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4 Things That Must Happen for Joe Biden to Run for President
The “Will Joe Biden Run?” stories are popping up with greater frequency again after a weekend interview in which anonymous members of his staff suggested that he’s “more likely to run” than not. “More likely than not” usually isn’t enough to be convinced of anything (although that was enough to convict Tom Brady), but in the…
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Fla. Teen Who Was Also Arrested for a Science Project Tells Ahmed Mohamed, ‘Keep Moving Forward’
By now we’ve all heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, the brilliant 14-year-old who brought his homemade digital clock to school to show his science teacher, only to wind up arrested. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time that the scientific creativity of a person of color has been mistaken for a threat. In fact, Kiera…
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#IStandWithAhmed: Texas Teen Who Built Clock Receives Outpouring of Support
Ahmed Mohamed will not be returning to his Texas high school after being put in handcuffs by police for having a “bomb,” which was actually a digital clock that the brilliant 14-year-old whipped together to show to his science teacher, the Huffington Post reports. After the traumatic experience, which Ahmed said made him feel like…