Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
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Journal of Heresy and Damned Knowledge
That we have ever come – or, rather, come back – to this point again is the sad indictment of the intellectual climate throughout the Western academia: An international group …
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Guilty until never proved innocent
As an Indiana judge said at the height of the 1870s Women’s Crusade forcing saloons to close through sit-ins and pray-ins, “Mob law enforced by women is no better than …
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What do metalheads and Papuans have in common?
A lot apparently, according to an anthropologist: Heavy metal fans have evolved to communicate with each other like remote tribes in Papua New Guinea, a study by anthropologists has found. …
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The Weakest Generation
Depression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
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No more ABCDE for your ABC?
Judging by the test results, the learning outcomes in Australian schools are at best stagnating in absolute terms and declining relatively to other OECD countries. This is a problem for …
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Doctor Doctor, gimme the news, I’ve got a bad case of mocking you
The new slogan for The Daily Chrenk should henceforth be “TDC – read it all here two days before News.com.au catches onto it”. I wasn’t going to blog about this …
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Lest We Remember
I like free speech and free market because they allow us to see who the idiots are and to spend our money elsewhere. Wisconsin parents – avoid Ripon College for …
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Victimhood Olympics in space
In space no one can hear you scream, but in Ohio school administrators can certainly hear parents scream about their children being given this exercise: Administrators with Cuyahoga Falls Schools …
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Stalin and Assad fanboy now hearts North Korea
Jay Tharappel is a Sydney Uni academic (a tutor in human rights apparently) whom TDC readers might remember from last year when I wrote about some of his sterling political …
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Does Millennial illiteracy leads to socialism?
Here at The Daily Chrenk we ask all the important questions. Firstly, the recent scary study: Researchers from San Diego State University recently analyzed four decades’ worth of data from an …
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It’s a Muslim “no go” zone – but for trees
Another instance when you should probably pay a qualified lawyer to engage in statutory interpretation: Hawkesbury City Council has launched civil action against Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and Diaa Kara-Ali in the …
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Young, Dumb and Broke – and Socialist (but I repeat myself)
A few months back, 20-year old Texan singer and rapper Khalid scored a number one in Australia with his Gen Z high school anthem “Young, Dumb and Broke”. His catchy …
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