Thousands of years passed between the first use of iron tools and the accidental discovery of steel before the steel industry transformed daily life in the mid-1800s. Close to a hundred years elapsed from Robert Fulton’s first commercial steamboat launch in 1807 until the first diesel boat debuted in 1903. That same year, Orville Wright
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I don’t pretend to know much about President Trump’s vice-president pick, J.D. Vance. I read his book, Hillbilly Elegy when it came out, but I have not followed his career or statements. So, what I’m about to write is based on a limited and narrow slice of reality—his now infamous comment in 2021 that, “We’re
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Something has been troubling me throughout the #MeToo movement’s ascendancy and I’m sure that I am not alone. That our modern society has a problem in relationships between the sexes is not in question. Neither is the fact that historically there has been a power imbalance that allowed bad men to harm women more easily
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