484. What Gives You Hope?
Many people have a gloomy outlook on the future of the world. But are things really that bad? Or are there reasons to be hopeful?
483. What Are 15 Minute Cities?
While the idea of everything we could ever need being within 15 minutes sounds good in theory, these planned communities would be based on regulation of people’s movements within the city boundaries.
479. Should We Defend Horrible Speech?
People seem way too eager these days to want to ban speech they think is hateful and offensive. It’s true, there are a lot of terrible things that are said, but even hateful and offensive speech should be defended and history has some great examples of why this is important.
478. What Are Miranda Rights?
Have you ever heard someone on a movie say “you have the right to remain silent?” That line actually has a name and an interesting history in our justice system.
477. How Can You Turn An Idea Into A Reality?
It’s easy to dream up a great idea, but it takes courage and discipline to turn that dream into a reality.
476. Should You Worry About Being Popular?
When we are young, sometimes we worry about fitting in withthe popular kids. But why do we worry about that? And is it really important?
475. What Is A Children’s Market?
Connor and Brittany talk about the children’s market that Connor helped create and how it’s grown.
474. Shocker: Only 13% of 8th Graders Know This…
Connor reveals an alarming statistic about how broken history education is, and what your family can do to fix it.
473. Don’t Ignore This Part of the Declaration of Independence!
Connor walks through some of the grievances that the founding fathers cited as reasons to break off from the most powerful government in the world. What does it mean for us today?
472. Who Was Phillis Wheatley?
Today, Ronni and Brittany talk about Phillis Wheatley, a freed slave who went on to become an celebrated author.