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Students in Lecture-based Classes Perform More Poorly Than “Active-based” Classes
This seems obvious, but now we have some science to back it up. In many engineering, science, and math classes, active-learning has increased grades, sometimes half a grade from an A- to a B+. From the article itself: Freeman and … Continue reading
Making Your Priorities Pop
When you make important life-changing decisions, it can be hard to calculate what you should do. All of the options seem daunting and the details of those options seem incommensurable. There’s an interesting site that helps weigh those options in … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (April 22, 2014)
Children Are we overprotecting our kids? From the article itself: I used to puzzle over a particular statistic that routinely comes up in articles about time use: even though women work vastly more hours now than they did in the … Continue reading
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How to Test Whether Life is Worth Living (Test Five: Pre-existence Test) Along with Objections, and Conclusion
In part one, I went through Smuts’ article on certain tests on what makes life worth living. I went through Camus’ Suicide Test and showed Smut’s argument on why it fails. In part two, I went through mainly Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence Test … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Feb. 16, 2014)
Children Nine-month olds can tell friends from foes. The dangers of the Good Mother Myth. The choice to be child-free is admirable, not selfish. From the article itself: The increased visibility and acceptance of women who choose not to have children … Continue reading
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How to Test Whether Life is Worth Living (Test Four: Preferring Not to Have Been Born Test)
In part one, I went through Smuts’ article on certain tests on what makes life worth living. I went through Camus’ Suicide Test and showed Smut’s argument on why it fails. In part two, I went through mainly Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence Test … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Feb. 1, 2014)
Abortion Some states require women to look at an ultrasound before an abortion. The argument behind this is that this would hopefully form a bond between the mother and the fetus and the mother would change her mind and continue … Continue reading
How to Test Whether Life is Worth Living (Test Three: The Extra Life Test)
In part one, I went through Smuts’ article on certain tests on what makes life worth living. I went through Camus’ Suicide Test and showed Smut’s argument on why it fails. In part two, I went through mainly Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence Test … Continue reading
How to Test Whether Life is Worth Living (Test Two: The Recurrence Test)
In part one, I went through Smuts’ article on certain tests on what makes life worth living. I went through Camus’ Suicide Test and showed Smut’s argument on why it fails. In this post, I’ll look into the second test … Continue reading
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How to Test Whether Life is Worth Living (Test One: The Suicide Test)
The meaning of life has been a huge question in philosophy. The answers range from gaining knowledge, gaining pleasure, coming to know God and follow his commandments, getting off the cycle of samsara, and self-creation by finding your own meaning. Yet, … Continue reading
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