A 17th century educational network could offer an alternative to universities under ideological attacks from the right.
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Occasionally, someone is well-served by taking a question that others have asked, and asking it again, just to see what shakes out.
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How a couple of students with too many books went and created their own public library.
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Citizen scientists take part in the same struggle as nearly everyone else on the planet, which is the quest to be taken seriously.
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The idea is quite simple: you get a bunch of people together in one place where they sit quietly for a couple of hours reading books.
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News is a vital nutrient of the body politic. Without accurate information, democratic societies cannot survive, let alone produce the “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” necessary for their survival.
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Next week’s observance of Thanksgiving might be very different had two amateur scientists not played key roles in drafting the two most important documents in American history.
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