If you've met my mother you might have heard her recommend that children get outside and get in the dirt to build their immunity. Many scientists share her opinion and in medicine, the "Hygiene Hypothesis" and the "Old Friends Hypothesis" explain exactly why this might be true. Science, like other areas of human intellectual development, …
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Facing the Mistakes of Life V
"Omnipotence cannot change the past, so why should we try? Our duty is to compel that past to vitalize our future with new courage and purpose, making it a larger, greater future than would have been possible without the past that has so grieved us. If we can get real, fine, appetizing dividends from our …
Gregory Hake 