February 2013
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There’s something beautiful about seeing our primitive ancestors demonstrate creativity. We popularly imagine ancient man to have been a crude savage concerned strictly with the primal needs of survival. Yet no matter how difficult and simple their existence, it seems almost every human group developed some sort of art form. Why Evolution Is True Perusing… Continue reading
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More Evidence of the Harm of Bullying
I think our society needs to move past the idea that bullying is a natural and inevitable process of growing up that we must all get over (or respond to with violence). Whether it’s natural or not is besides the point: it does considerable social and psychological harm, and that’s reason enough to take it… Continue reading
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An Interesting Musing on the Culture and Career Preference South Asians
Originally posted on GOATMILK: An intellectual playground: FARAH AKBAR Amrik Singh, 60 could not bear the thought of his children turning into anything other than doctors. God forbid they turn into teachers or gasp, social workers – like him. Coming from a family of farmers, he immigrated to the United States from India almost 4… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Corey Robin: On Saturday night, I wrote a post about a curious argument I’ve noted among a subset of liberal bloggers. On the one hand, they claim Obama is radically constrained (by Congress, the Republicans, etc.); on the other hand, they claim progressive activists and citizens are radically unconstrained. I noted that… Continue reading
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An underrated, if not complete unknown, figure in the history of science. Why Evolution Is True by Greg Mayer As ever-alert reader Dominic has reminded us, 2013 is the centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s death, and it is thus an appropriate time to reflect on the many contributions of this great scientist who was, along… Continue reading
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Happy 540th Birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus
A name well-known to students across the western world, Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model, which as opposed to the prevailing geocentric model of the time, placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe. The model was… Continue reading
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