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Like other Americans, I’m depressed by the growing level of political partisanship. There seem to be a lot more people with extreme beliefs yelling at us. The ends of the belief spectrum are engorged, the center hollowed out. It’s frequently alleged that extremists don’t care about truth,
The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.
Hypergamy is an evolved sexual strategy where individuals mate with and/or marry those most capable of providing long term security. It is the act of marrying up.
The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse.
They came to build the future and make money in the process.
Face recognition gives law enforcement this unique authority, this unique power, that does pose risks to our constitutional rights, and this needs to be very closely scrutinized now.
A new strategy is required that balances authority with humility.
With the decline of religious belief over the past century, perhaps this is what lies behind this quest to understand the unidentified.
Until recently, it seemed inconceivable to imagine that any physical or biological scientists could become so misguided as to argue against the empirical basis of their own fields.
Taiwan’s COVID response will likely be remembered as one of the world’s best.
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a
In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.