Many warnings were offered up to us about how well-meaning scientists and policy makers could slip into using genetic information maleficently.
Psychedelics are incredible tools whose significance lies in their ability to catalyze the power of the human mind for healing, creativity, and spiritual consciousness.
This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press.
These common complaints might contain more than a kernel of truth, but centrism doesn’t need to be dull or incoherent.
The message is loud and clear: sugar is bad, government regulation is good, and now we have the science to prove it.
The answer, it should come as no surprise, is that he uses the very same tactics of evasion and persuasion for which he admires the president.
What Google needs to do is to tailor its diversity policies towards the men and women who work at Google.
The message that liberates women is not: men and women are the same, and anyone who tells you different is oppressing you.
By using opposition to the illiberalism of Trump as a platform for their own illiberal politics, progressives risk dragging the Democratic Party into a populist cul-de-sac of its own.
Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both.
According to polls, roughly half of people in the United States and Britain believe in ghosts. Furthermore, around 25% of people report having seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
With the very real possibility that such technology will be able to make changes to itself, even a slight diversion from goals that match our own could be disastrous.
The clearest evidence for this lack of a distinction is the fact that most individuals are cisgender (individuals whose gender identity aligns with their biological sex).
The progress we as a society have made in recent decades—in women’s rights and in gay rights, for starters—largely stems from our overcoming religion-based prejudices.
There will never be perfect 50:50 gender parity in every field.