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There Is No Need, for Needless Worry

There Is No Need, for Needless Worry

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Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” According to Don Joseph Goewey, “Now there’s a study that proves it. This study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize. In this study, subjects were asked to write down their worries over an extended period of time and then identify which of their imagined misfortunes did not actually happen. Lo and behold, it turns out…

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Making It Up as You Go

Making It Up as You Go

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Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module (SM) upon which the Command Module depended. In the movie made to retell the story of the Apollo 13 mission, the mission commander calls all of…

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Consistently Inconsistent

Consistently Inconsistent

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Millennial politics is simple, really. Young people support big government, unless it costs any more money. They’re for smaller government, unless budget cuts scratch a program they’ve heard of. They’d like Washington to fix everything, just so long as it doesn’t run anything. Millennials’ political views are, at best, in a stage of constant metamorphosis and, at worst, “totally incoherent,” as Dylan Matthews puts it. a similar survey of Millennial attitudes that offered another smorgasbord of paradoxes: Millennials hate the…

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The 1904 Olympic Marathon

The 1904 Olympic Marathon

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The 1904 Olympic marathon may have been the strangest ever. Of the 32 runners, only five were experienced marathoners; one showed up at the starting line barefoot, and a Cuban runner was attired in a white, long-sleeved shirt, long, dark pants, a beret and a pair of street shoes. One fellow Olympian took pity, found a pair of scissors and cut his trousers at the knee. On August 30 they fired the starting pistol, and the men were off. Heat…

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