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Your Heart Always Follows Your Money
Suppose you buy shares of General Motors. What happens? You suddenly develop interest in GM. You check the financial pages. You see a magazine article ...
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Children Prefer Food Covered in McDonald's Wrapper
In a study included in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine children were shown to overwhelmingly prefer the taste of food that comes ...
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'In The Heart of the Sea'—A Seaman's Integrity
Based on actual events, In The Heart of the Sea is a 2015 recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a colossal white whale in 1820. The ...
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Average American Home Size Increases by 175%
In a series of articles on the nature of greed, Christian blogger Ted Scofield writes:
When I ask people "What is greed?" typically the first ...
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'Stealth Secularism' Hooks Us Through Stories
Christian apologist Nancy Pearcey uses the following story to show how "stealth secularism" can bypass our critical grid and hook us emotionally: ...
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Passengers Love Their Bags More Than Life
On Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, a British Airways jet caught fire at the Las Vegas airport, sending smoke billowing into the air, after suffering what ...
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Billionaire Tweets About His Emptiness
In 2014, software giant Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company that created the worldwide gaming sensation Minecraft. The ...
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Ship Stuffed with Gold Sinks Off Wales Coast
On the 25th of October in 1859, the steam clipper Royal Charter rounded the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales on what was supposed to be the celebratory ...
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Envy Leads to Man's Downfall
Through a Rotary Club sponsored program, Clayton Lush had built schools at villages in the Solomon Islands. He also hosted a Christmas carols show for ...
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Researcher Claims Credit Cards Make Us Forgetful
In the early 1990s, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago named Dilip Soman set out to study the effects of consumer credit, on the human ...
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