FEATURED AUTHOR - After graduating from Duke University, Glen Dawson owned and operated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant for 23 years. Then, he sold the factory and went back to school to get his Master's degree in biostatistics from Boston University. When he moved to North Carolina, he opened an after-school learning academy for advanced math students in grades 2 through 12. After growing the academy from 30 to 430 students, he sold it to Art of Problem Solving. Since retiring from Art of Problem…
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There are also several book reviews and two very interesting Letters To The Editor continuing a discussion of an article, "Mind and Instinct", from two previous issues about animal intelligence and the proposal by the writer that one should "abstain entirely from animal food". Modern readers will be surprised, I think, at what side the writers are overwhelmingly on when it comes to the question of whether animals are intelligent or not.
The only issues with this particular ebook is that it's difficult to tell where pieces begin and end, and almost no piece has a department heading above it to tell you whether it's a fictional story or a true article. Given the magazine's casual, gossipy tone, I would take the entire contents with a grain of salt.
I've quite enjoyed reading this and it's often surprised me to read what people were thinking about and dealing with in everyday life in 1844. Very illuminating. The language is fairly easy although some writers use what to modern ears will seem like twisted and tortured sentence structure. Very much worth a download!