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3 Ways To Elevate The Debate About Guns
Since the tragic shooting in Parkland, Fla., students have been pressing lawmakers for greater gun control, bringing with their appeals a maturity beyond their years. That maturity is something we could use: Debates about gun
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We Asked a Child Psychologist to Review the 17 ‘Toy of the Year’ Winners
A couple of weeks ago the Toy Association presented the winners of the Toy of the Year Awards, the Oscars of the toy industry, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. And this year the audience of industry
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Why Dozens Of Mass Shootings Didn’t Change Americans’ Minds On Guns
The mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, isn’t fading quietly from the headlines like so many acts of gun violence before it. Nearly two weeks after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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Some of the Turpin children are playing the guitar to heal
Police say they lived in squalor for years, malnourished and deprived of contact with the outside world. Their parents are accused of torturing them. Now on the road to recovery, David and Louise Turpin’s seven
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How mass school shootings affect the education of students who survive
A Washington Post analysis found that more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools in the United States have experienced a shooting on campus since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre
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Intelligent Machines That Learn Like Children
Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together to bootstrap knowledge and skills. Deon, a fictional engineer in the 2015 sci-fi film Chappie, wants to create a
