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The Reason & Rationality summer program at Princeton and Swarthmore is the perfect opportunity for high school students to sharpen their critical thinking, enhance verbal agility, and learn how to stand out in classroom discussions and college interviews. Mentors from
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Largest, most rigorous quantitative review of gender stereotype accuracy yet conducted finds: By an overwhelming margin (85% of 673 comparisons), judges across the studies providing direct comparisons were correct about the direction of gender differences. Furthermore, three https://t.co/XzujHLdXlg
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Paper itself here: Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure are Not Represented by o3 https://t.co/ahoJBHtRSt
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The Literary Universals Project - are there universals of literature, as there are universals of language? Patrick Hogan's website on this project. https://t.co/hUMMrumWBb
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“You’re standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to commit a genocide.” Utterly false. It’s called the “Weimar fallacy” and Margaret Brennan should know better than to engage in it. Germany had plenty of hate speech codes. Indeed Hiltler was banned from speaking
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🧪 Frankenbabies and other dystopian scenarios raised by techno-panickers when IVF (now unexceptionable) appeared on the scene. https://t.co/4J2ovey0mF
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The Post-Neoliberal Delusion, by my colleague @jasonfurman https://t.co/roX0af92JT via @ForeignAffairs
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A stopped clock is right twice a day, and a strategy of infuriating the left for its own sake will occasionally blunder into the right policy, in this case weakening NEPA & fostering 4th G nuclear over weather-dependent energy sources. Still a horrendous strategy: Opposite of
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One of the greatest scientific discoveries of this century: Ancient DNA resolves the origin of Indo-European languages (spoken in most of Europe, Iran, north 1/2 of India, even a part of China). @razibkhan https://t.co/pN6WH6AfJW
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served From the White House https://t.co/6E1t4XrUMg
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Canada as the 51st state? A Canadian replies, intermittently politely. | The Long, Strange, Psychosexual History of Canada and the United States, by @dgardner https://t.co/qcvxIFLPu9
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Money isn't all there is to happiness, but it helps a lot (especially at the low end of the income scale). Governments are right to promote GDP growth (though of course taking other goods into account as well). https://t.co/bdetlmflSL
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Windows user? X1 Search is a huge timesaver - find any file or email instantly by content, name, date, type. I've used it for 21 years. Coupon code VV2112D for a discount. (Supposedly I can get a small kickback for recommending it but I've never bothered. It really does make life
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The Regrettable Dogmatism of FFRF | Free Inquiry. The Center for Inquiry remains a pro-free speech, secular, classically liberal, science-welcoming humanist organization. https://t.co/fAcLux66jP
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The Best Sentences of 2024 - The New York Times. Note how most either use metaphors and similes, or play with the literal meanings of idioms and cliches. In The Sense of Style I noted that good writing engages the reader's visual imagery, rather than being just a train of
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Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Conservation through Competition https://t.co/Uv6jSvll5M
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My friend Louis Liebenberg has documented the amazing tracking abilities of the Kalahari San and used them to illuminate human cognition and the origins of science. He has also invented a tracking tool for citizen-scientists of all ages to contribute to wildlife conservation,
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Between 1990 and 2024, global extreme poverty (the percentage of people living on $2.15 per day), fell from 40% to 8.5%. The rate of decline has, however, slowed, and more progress is needed. Source: @StatistaCharts https://t.co/hkvpWqcGQE 📉 https://t.co/9Ek417iXMX
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The Case Against RFK Jr. | A judicious yet emphatic evaluation by my Harvard colleague Jeff Flier @jflier , former Med School Dean fellow Co-Pres of the Council on Academic Freedom @cafh | The Free Press https://t.co/gcrs1yQqC0
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The Disease of the Powerful, by @dgardner https://t.co/9p0vWEZKh1
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