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Scholar Claims to Have Unlocked 'The Plato Code'

LONDON (June 30) -- A scholar unlocks a code buried within ancient Greek texts to discover secret messages left by a long-dead philosopher. This isn't the plot of the next Dan Brown novel, but the result of an English academic's five-year-long study of Plato. Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester claims that Plato...

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The "Wisdom" of Pearson's Pineapple Passage

In a letter to the New York State Education Department, mega-test and textbook publisher Pearson Education defended a controversial reading passage and questions on the recently administered eighth grade reading assessment.

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Arianna: 'What It Means To Be Fearless'

Everyone experiences fear sometimes -- it's part of being human.

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Arianna On The Meaning Of Fearlessness

Everyone experiences fear sometimes -- it's part of being human.

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Arianna: 'What It Means To Be Fearless'

Everyone experiences fear sometimes -- it's part of being human.

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Kool-Aid, Hemlock and Confucius

The drinking of two beverages -- sweet Kool-Aid and bitter hemlock, has portrayed suicide in Western culture, but with profound differences in the meaning of the act.

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05/30/12 Socrates Narrowly Acquitted at Retrial 2,400 Years... Source: Neatorama The Greek philosopher Socrates was accused of irreverence to the gods and corrupting the young people of Athens.
05/23/12 A Well-Regulated Militia And All That Source: Esquire This blog is about politics, which, according to Aristotle, a truly veteran scribe, is the result of humans being the only herd animals capable of speaking to one another.
05/23/12 Lady Gaga: the corrupter of youth? Source: GMA Lady Gaga's sold-out concert in Indonesia was cancelled following protests by Islamic hardliners, conservative lawmakers and politicians.
05/22/12 Please, Germany, Bake Us A Cake We Can Have, And Eat,... Source: Daily Pundit At least we'll know whether Greece decides to stay or go within the next month since the second-round election in June is being widely viewed as a referendum on continued euro area membership.
05/22/12 Mark Morris's Socrates, The Muir, and Festival Dance Source: The Boston Phoenix - Boston MA Erik Satie called his vocal work Socrate a "symphonic drama," though it's anything but dramatic in a theatrical sense â or symphonic, either.

Background on Greek philosophers

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire.

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