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Culture
[Via The Independent.] Creative minds in all kinds of areas, from science to poetry, and mathematics to humour, may have traits associated with …
[via Essay – Our Two Cultures – NYTimes.com.] Today, others believe science now addresses the human condition in ways Snow did not anticipate. For …
Science
[Via NYTBR.] When each side wants to believe certain scientific conclusions for extra-scientific reasons, skepticism is the better part of rigor. …
[via Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY: A Talk with AC Grayling.] Science is the greatest achievement of human history so far. I say …
Linkblog
Is Darwin due for an upgrade?Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift – New York Times…
This print shows the “brain of someone described as an idiot”. Published in the Journal of Mental Science, the illustration is by George Edward …
For Richard Dawkins, people like religion the way moths like flames. But he misses religion’s real adaptive value, argues David Sloan Wilson… more…
Williams syndrome — a genetic accident that causes cognitive deficits and a surplus of unguarded affability — is revealing much about what makes us social …
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