孩子們的行為往往不負責任、非理性、情緒化,結果非常糟糕——貴重物品壞了,有人受傷了。
In Homer’s Iliad Trojan prince Hector is slain in combat by the Greek champion Achilles. But blinded by anger, Achilles desecrates Hector’s
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On the 16th of October, 2010, I tramped into London along with two thousand other minds to attend The Amazing Meeting, the major conference
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This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, who was accused of violating Tennessee’s prohibition on teaching
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Sam Harris opens The End of Faith with the story of a young man who boards a bus, carrying a bomb under his coat. He sits next to a middle..
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Deism is the belief that an omnipotent, eternal, and all-knowing God created reality and set its rules, but that the Deity does not interven