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Alex Faedo pitches during Florida's 10-4 loss to Mississippi State on April 9, 2016, at McKethan Stadium.
SPORTS

Roundtable: Which UF team will have the best Spring season?

Last Spring, only the Florida track and field team brought a title home to Gainesville. But expectations are higher for some teams this season, and with several sports about to start up, staff writers Patrick Pinak, Ian Cohen, Matt Brannon and Ethan Bauer debate which UF team will have the most success this Spring season.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Knowledge and intelligence: a few steps you can take to become smarter

What does it mean to be “smart?” When someone recalls obscure facts or demonstrates a remarkable feat of calculation, we say that person is smart. If someone demonstrates an unusual perspective, drawing from many sources to reach a conclusion, we may wonder how they are able to perform such mental gymnastics.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Why we must all resist the post-truth society

Truth is an elusive and abstract concept. Maybe Pontius Pilate understood it best when he looked at Jesus and asked, “What is truth?” This past year has been an echo of that question. Last year was a time of ineffable emotion, like that of a disgruntled spouse who has bottled up her marital frustration for years. It was only natural that democratic decisions — Brexit, Trump — would be made in order to spite the political establishment. It was the year that statistics, journalism and facts were cast down from their thrones. The populace no longer looks to news in search of truth. Rather, we understand every news outlet to have a predisposed bias or slant, so we abandon the notion of finding objective truths.


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