Silicon Valley's ABCs of Diversity
In the first scenario, it’s sensible to take the widest array of objects. Who knows which object is valuable or why?
Kirio Birks
· 7 min read
Incomprehension 501 — Introduction to Graduate School
My last book purge found me deciding the fate of Slavoj Žižek’s Tarrying With The Negative, a book I read in a class on Shakespeare and political theory.
S. A. Dance
· 9 min read
Living in Parallel Societies
Was that supposed to make them see the error of their ways? Of course not. That’s how you get people to hunker down and reject social change altogether.
Nick Ottens
· 7 min read
Privilege: A Term That Has Lost Its Utility
Which other voices would be promoted and approved by all, and how would they achieve that sort of prominence? How would any of this be to society’s advantage?
Genevieve Weynerowski
· 6 min read
Would You Opt for Immortality?
Michael Shermer
· 5 min read
The Academic Mob and Its Fatal Toll
“Academic Mobbing, Or How To Become Campus Tormentors,” Eve Seguin wrote, “Mobbing is social murder and, by definition, people cannot survive their own murder.”
Brad Cran
· 12 min read
Transgenderism as Social Construction and Diagnosis
Tannehill subsequently posted the article to the Facebook page of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Lisa Marchiano
· 10 min read
Immigration and the Social Science Echo Chamber
Surely an organisation like this, which researches and aims to accurately interpret attitudes to immigration, could be relied upon for accuracy?
David Hansard
· 8 min read
What Has Capitalism Ever Done for Us?
Like Reggie in Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, they demand to know: “What has capitalism ever done for us?”
Nicola Wright
· 11 min read
The Niqab — Life Like a French Woman Who Chose to Remove the Veil
But what happens when a woman who has worn a niqab, sometimes for years, makes the decision to leave it behind?
Agnes De Feo
· 8 min read
You're Fake News — The Unfortunate Reality of Ad Hominem
An ad hominem attack is one directed at an opponent’s character rather than the substance of his arguments and claims.
Elio Martino
· 6 min read
Blockchain and Sex
Blockchain technology also has the potential to be used for smart contracts. Smart contracts provide an automatically enforceable way for buyers and sellers to negotiate a contract.
Justin Campbell
· 4 min read
Damore, Diversity, Disruption — A PSU Perspective
Organizing a student event to discuss any topic — including diversity — should not be a safety hazard.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
The Sceptical Optimist — Interview with Michael Shermer
An interview with the founder of The Skeptics Society.
Claire Lehmann
· 17 min read
The Behavioral Ecology of Male Violence
Understanding patterns of lethal violence among humans requires understanding some important sex differences between males and females.
William Buckner
· 16 min read