When Literacy was Dangerous

Read a Book, Gamble With Your Life. Literacy is power, and many times in history, that power was controlled rigidly.
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Why Is the Speed of Light So Slow? "Slow" is a relative term (as Einstein would tell you), but physicists know what slow means in astronomical terms.
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Why Your Baby Doesn't Sleep Through The Night. Babies wake up during the night because they are hungry/wet/lonely, and because it's natural for them.
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The Persistence of Prog Rock. Critics called it pretentious, you couldn't dance to it, but we loved the music anyway.
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The Fiberglass Statue Graveyard of Sparta. Where bygone advertising mascots, both familiar and unfamiliar, are retired.
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And now, the Bikini Bobbers of the Summer of 1961. It looks like fun—and a liability nightmare.
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How American real estate went bananas. A place to live is too expensive for the majority of Americans, and the few are snapping them up.
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10 Gigantic Facts About Moose. The largest members of the deer family are powerful, but face threats from all sides.