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Reports on scientific studies, caffeine require careful interpretation
A study by Stanford University researchers published in a 2017 edition of the journal Nature Medicine addresses the potential protective and anti-inflammatory effects of...
Who is the smartest crook in the race?
Consider Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding, who headed what were arguably the most corrupt presidential administrations in American history. Their administrations were...
Q&A: Domestic violence a ‘system of power and control’
FAIRFIELD BAY, Ark. — I recently wrote the commentary, How do you know when it’s domestic violence? for NonDoc, which shared a glimpse of my...
Dia de los Muertos 2017: Photos from Norman
The University of Oklahoma's Hispanic American Student Association hosted its 2017 Dia de los Muertos Festival de Calle ( Day of the Dead Street...
OKCPS 2017 Statistical Abstract: Three takeaways
The OKCPS 2017 Statistical Abstract is out (and embedded at the end of this article).
As we already knew, the state’s shift to higher standards produced a...
Unfair emphasis on credit history cripples consumers
Think about the last time you bought something using cash. It might have been this morning or yesterday or maybe even days, weeks or...
Aleppo: On worst times (poetry from Nepal)
Aleppo: On Worst Times
By Bipin Khatiwada
Old man
Looks at houses.
Tears stream from eyes,
Beading dust where children played.
He puts on glasses;
Sees homes ravished, breaking hearts.
Soldiers enter...
‘How I wish I had an ocean to cross’
Regeneration
by James Coburn
I always look for the hidden leaf.
The voice in the wilderness,
An unseen tongue.
I am magnetized across continents.
Depths of sea restore me,
Break away...
State of the Schools: Education systems like skyscrapers
James Spurlino, a member of ReadyNation and the owner of Spurlino Materials of Ohio, knows two things really well: early education and concrete.
Speaking at...
Zua: ‘It is his people’s time to come’
Zua
by James Coburn
I walk with Angola
Knowing a young man,
A rising voice of his people
Percolating from generations
Pure as the night sky;
Fervent as a great river
Joining...
