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How New Graduates Can Find a Job in the Age of AI
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Source: U.S. News and World Report
"Do you have advice on how to find an AI-related job?" This is an important
and timely question that upcoming college g...
1 hour ago
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Playing Northboro with Lily and Rick
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Published on April 28, 2024 2:40 AM GMT
This afternoon Lily, Rick, and I ("Dandelion") played our first dance
together, which was also Lily's first dance. ...
3 hours ago
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Phish Gifted Drew Carey a Signed Blender to Stick His Dick In
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Carey said he'd ""stick my dick in a blender" to see Phish perform at
Sphere again.
Phish Gifted Drew Carey a Signed Blender to Stick His Dick In
Scoop H...
4 hours ago
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Response to Scott Alexander on Medical Effectiveness
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Scott Alexander on Wednesday: I’ve spent fifteen years not responding to
[Hanson’s medicine] argument, because I worry it would be harsh and
annoying to us...
12 hours ago
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Making a Career Choice: Follow in Your Own Footsteps
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In a guest column, APS Fellow Barbara Wanchisen shares observations and
ideas on broadening career opportunities for psychological scientists.
1 day ago
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Air pollution and depression linked with heart disease deaths in
middle-aged adults
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A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has
suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting
under-65...
1 day ago
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ARTICLE: Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending
Inheritance and the Jenkin MythARTICLE:
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In the Journal of the History of Biology: Darwin and the White Shipwrecked
Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth Thierry Hoquet
Abstract ...
1 day ago
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Egyptians: Lykeas of Naukratis on Egyptian kings and meals (first century
CE or earlier)
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Ancient authors: Lykeas of Naukratis (first century CE or earlier),
Egyptian Matters = FGrHist 613 F2, 4, as cited by Athenaios (early third
century CE), S...
1 day ago
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Kevin A. Carson - The Desktop Regulatory State
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*Author*: Kevin A. Carson
*Title*: The Desktop Regulatory State
*Subtitle*: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks
*Date*: March 2016
*Source*:...
2 days ago
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Social change may explain decline in genetic diversity of the Y chromosome
at the end of the Neolithic period
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The emergence in the Neolithic of patrilineal social systems, in which
children are affiliated with their father's lineage, may explain a
spectacular decli...
3 days ago
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Front Cover
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Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2024.
3 days ago
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The Epochal Shift in Human Evolution: The Emergence of Language 1.6 Million
Years Ago
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A Paradigm-Altering Revelation That Rewrites Human Evolutionary Timelines
4 days ago
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Becoming Monsters
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I’ll keep this brief. Shortly after the July, 2005 London bombings, U2
performed in Milan and dedicated the song Miss Sarajevo to its victims.
Bono preface...
5 days ago
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The Monkey Stone Age: A Glimpse into Primate Archaeology
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Documenting Primate Stone Tool Use in Real-Time: The Case of Coiba National
Park
1 week ago
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Gender stereotypes in schools impact on girls and boys with mental health
difficulties, study finds
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Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional
openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen as likely to mask
their emoti...
1 week ago
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Hướng dẫn chi tiết cách chuốt cựa gà đẹp, sắc bén để giao chiến
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Trước khi tham gia vào các trận chiến đòi hỏi người chơi phải thực hiện
việc chuốt cựa gà. Khi thực hiện chuốt cựa sẽ giúp cho gà có được một vũ
khí lợi hạ...
2 weeks ago
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Kentron
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[image: Couverture de la revue]
(1985 - 1999)
48 numéros
eISSN - 2264-1459
La revue * Kentron* – dont le nom peut renvoyer aussi bien à la cravache du
c...
2 weeks ago
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The world of decentralized everything.
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Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions, I want to
pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie MindBlog
readers) ...
2 weeks ago
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Popper and Parfit: the minds of philosophers
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Derek Parfit hit the philosophy firmament in the early 1960s, while Karl
Popper arrived on the Vienna scene three decades earlier. David Edmonds'
biogra...
3 weeks ago
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Frans de Waal
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I was saddened to read in the New York Times recently of the death of Fran
de Waal of Emory University and the Yerkes Primate Research Centre at age
75. I ...
3 weeks ago
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A musical ape?
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Music is universal in all human cultures, but why? What gives us the
ability to hear sound as music? Are we the only musical species–or was
Darwin right ...
3 weeks ago
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Plongée dans les coulisses dun empire en guerre
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Spécialiste d'histoire militaire et notamment de la Seconde Guerre
mondiale, à laquelle il a consacré de nombreux ouvrages 1 , Benoît Rondeau
nous livre au...
4 weeks ago
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The "Quality Control" Interview for Big Classes
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*Attention conservation notice:* Advice on teaching, which I no longer
follow myself.
I teach a lot of big classes --- the undergraduate advanced data a...
5 weeks ago
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A 25-year quest for the Holy Grail of evolutionary biology
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When I started my postdoc in 1998, I think it is safe to say that the Holy
Grail (or maybe Rosetta Stone) for many evolutionary biologists was a
concept ...
5 weeks ago
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Who needs a classicist? (Installment 4)
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Started watching Northern Exposure, since I didn't see it the first time
around. In this episode, a former Russian spy tells Maurice he has his
secret KG...
1 month ago
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A local talk
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HPS book celebration at the University of Melbourne
1 month ago
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How Not To Do Great Science (The Lost Post)
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This post was originally published on Discover Magazine on September 16th
2013, but has since vanished (although most of my other Discover posts are
still ...
2 months ago
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Why are "Love Languages" so popular, when they're completely inaccurate?
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I joined an online dating site a few months ago.*1* Besides being asked
about my sun, moon, and rising signs (?), I was puzzled by the following
questio...
2 months ago
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Will a Robot Take Your God?
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Societies grow and change all the time, but it can be tough to think about
big-picture shifts when you’re living through the practical details of the
day t...
2 months ago
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Fine-tuning is not a problem
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Fine-tuning of the universe is not a cogent objection. It gets causality
wrong. The idea of a set of knobs that God tunes to get it just right for
life t...
2 months ago
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Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 4 - Loosening the
treaties of fate
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In Part 3 of this series, I argued that organisms really do think about
what to do, really do come to their reasons by reasoning, and really do
make decisi...
3 months ago
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26 | 2023 – Faire de la recherche féministe : défis épistémologiques et
méthodologiques au Québec et en France
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- Introduction : Faire de la recherche féministe : défis
épistémologiques et méthodologiques au Québec et en France [Texte
intégral]
Hélèn...
4 months ago
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Advances in the History of Psychology, 2007-2023
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After 16 years and nearly 2,500 posts, Advances in the History of
Psychology is ending. Many thanks to our readers for their abiding interest
in all things...
8 months ago
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The junk DNA quotes of interest series.
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One of the things I am happiest about having back online with the restored
blog is the Quotes of Interest series. I had gone through the contemporary
prima...
10 months ago
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Guest Author: Jessica Michelle Polacek
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(My friend Jessica has been doing some awesome queer history of Wisconsin
on Facebook, but this summary was too good to not pass on. – hbk)
Continuing our ...
10 months ago
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ChatGPT Can Write Undergrad-Level Essays with Accurate Citations
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I was asked recently if ChatGPT with GPT-4 running underneath has become
capable of writing an essay at a level that would fool and instructor and
earn a...
1 year ago
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ChatGPT in conversation with a language scientist (Hickok)
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Some interesting failures in this conversation with ChatGPT, not just about
the facts of language & brain but some glaring logical failures, like that
pe...
1 year ago
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Containment and Expropriation: Lockdowns, Public Health, and the Scrap Iron
Industry in Trinidad & Tobago
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Beginning in July of 2022 a series of articles here and on Disaster X have
been examining and questioning what it means to declare crime a “public
health e...
1 year ago
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Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Approach to Recovery
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This article explores the concept of rehabilitation and how it can be used
as a comprehensive approach to recovery. Rehabilitation is an important
part of ...
1 year ago
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An Overpopulation Failsafe?
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The UN is marking 15 November 2022 as the day human population surpassed 8
billion people worldwide. Conspiracy theorists have falsely conjectured
that a p...
1 year ago
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GOP candidate claimed rabbis agree that abortion is as bad as the
Holocaust. He couldn’t name one.
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When asked to name any Jewish leaders who agreed with his
abortion-Holocaust comparison, Darren Bailey simply said, "No."
1 year ago
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I am now at Temple of Sociology, a new substack please check it out
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Hi, everyone: I am an Temple of Sociology over at substack. Please
subscribe! Thank you.
1 year ago
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Thinking about cities: Were ancient cities greener than modern ones?
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**This is part of a series called ‘Thinking About Cities’ which are parts
of a book I am working on about urban green space that I’ve decided to cut
...
1 year ago
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Un peu de philosophie ironique
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À première vue, la philosophie est un genre littéraire plutôt opposé à
l’humour, mais comme ce dernier est quand même une tonalité de la pensée,
un certain...
1 year ago
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Background Readings on Organizational Wokeness
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Last year, Charles Lehman and I wrote pieces for the Autumn 2021 issue of
City Journal (Charles’s essay, my essay) giving organizational explanations
for t...
1 year ago
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Most of us don’t have a desire for unlimited wealth
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By Emily Reynolds. Study challenges common economic assumption that we all
want unlimited resources.
1 year ago
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Goodnight, world!
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This blog on academic culture has had its day. At one point it even had
readers! Back in the days of blogs. I do miss blogs. Someone wrote to me
this year ...
1 year ago
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Chromostereopsis
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The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this.
Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For
me thoug...
1 year ago
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Front Matter
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2 years ago
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Citizen scientists discover a new water beetle and name it after Leonardo
DiCaprio
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New animal species are sometimes named after celebrities because of their
trademark looks. That’s how we got the blonde-haired Donald Trump moth and
the ...
2 years ago
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Nickel has infant # 5!
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Fongoli female Nickel had her fifth infant in January 2022 - the first
baby of the new year! Nickel is one of the few females that remained within
her n...
2 years ago
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Prayers for Cain
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I’ve been reading the Herman Cain Awards subreddit: “Nominees have made
public declaration of their anti-mask, anti-vax, or Covid-hoax views,
followed by...
2 years ago
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The 2 Mountains and the 4 Goals
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I recently came across the concept of climbing The Second Mountain, via
Optimize Philosophers Notes (check out my last post to know how to get
access), abo...
2 years ago
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Mindfulness: New age craze or science-backed solution?
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- Mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry.
- Research shows mindfulness can be an effective wellness practice, yet the
effect sizes found in stud...
2 years ago
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Elsevier partners with American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics to
publish Genetics in Medicine
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(*Elsevier*) The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG),
the only nationally recognized US medical professional organization solely
dedic...
2 years ago
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Scientists model 'true prevalence' of COVID-19 throughout pandemic
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(*University of Washington*) University of Washington scientists have
developed a statistical framework that incorporates key COVID-19 data --
such as case...
2 years ago
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Research 'final nail in the coffin' of Paranthropus as hard object feeders
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(*University of Otago*) New research from the University of Otago debunks a
long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits.
2 years ago
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Best Online Shopping Sites in India
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Shopping, being one of the best stress-busters can also be hectic at times
as it would be time consuming. But now days are gone...
The post Best Online S...
2 years ago
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Let's get Genetic Drift in K-12 evolution education standards
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An undergraduate reflecting back on what they learned in introductory human
origins and evolution.
Perpetual chance change is the only way evolution make...
2 years ago
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Hello world!
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Welcome to your brand new blog at Edublogs! To get started, simply visit
your blog’s dashboard, edit or delete this post and check out all the other
option...
2 years ago
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Forgot I Changed My Username and Password
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I haven’t been able to get into my blog for months. Tried forgot my
username, forgot my password with no result. I finally stumbled across a
page in a note...
2 years ago
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One argument for free logic over classical logic
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I have just started working on an 'opinionated introduction' to free logic
for the Cambridge Elements series in Philosophy and Logic. In classical
logic, f...
2 years ago
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Fifteen Years Is Enough
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The blog's author (Edmund Blair Bolles): Taken shortly before the pandemic
when the whole world began to look a little queasy. Sometimes random forces
seem...
3 years ago
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How To Remove Logos From Clothing
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One of the most prominent design patterns in clothing happens to be logos.
It is a universal indicator of separating a brand’s apparel from its
competitors...
3 years ago
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Amanda Gorman
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Amanda Gorman. January 20th. You took the hope that is America, held her on
your tongue, then spoke her real again for all of us.
3 years ago
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Happy New Year 2021
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Health and Happiness to all.
3 years ago
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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote
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[image: Utah women of color were part of fight for equal suffrage,
historians say]
Photos courtesy of Better Days Utah 2020. L to R: Elizabeth Taylor; Al...
3 years ago
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Colgate Launches CBD Line
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Colgate is one of the biggest brands in oral healthcare in the U.S. and now
one of the largest companies in the world to debut its own CBD product
line. In...
3 years ago
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#DecolonizePrimatology: A Reading List
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*(Last updated October 2023).*
The goal of this reading list is to curate a list of readings and other
media that address understanding the need to decolo...
3 years ago
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Oppression diagnostique
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L’autre jour, je discutais informellement avec l’une des utilisatrices de
la Clinique SPOT. Nous discutions de tout et de rien; les sujets les plus
banals ...
4 years ago
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Bursa Transfer Liga Spanyol : Griezmann Yakinkan Geser ke Barcelona
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Antoine Griezmann pastikan akan bermain untuk Barcelona pada musim depan,
kata CEO Atletico Madrid Miguel Angel Gil Marin. Griezmann sudah
menginformasikan...
4 years ago
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We Have Moved
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Hi all. I just want to pop in and let everyone know that I have migrated to
a new site. The Prancing Papio is no longer active. Please visit my
personal we...
4 years ago
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How Do Leaders Impact Our Definition of Responsibility?
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What happens when our sense of responsibility breaks down?
-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
5 years ago
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Cli-Fi: My Latest Obsession
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It's been a very long time indeed since I've written anything for monkey's
uncle. One of the problems with waiting a minute to write anything is that
the ...
5 years ago
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Re-bonjour, avec un peu de délais… Le congé de maternité approchant à
grands pas, je suis très occupée au bureau avec la formation de celle qui
occupera mo...
5 years ago
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Museum Anthropology Has a Lot to Offer Public Anthropology!
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This post was submitted by AAA member Jen Shannon, curator and associate
professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado’s Museum
of Natur...
5 years ago
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What’s Personality Got To Do With Us? A Lot
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Personality is understood as the consistent features we display in regards
to our thinking, feeling, and behavior. It begins to emerge around the age
of 3....
5 years ago
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We are recruiting women scientists for an important study!
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We are recruiting research participants who are women scientists at the
University of Illinois. Previously, we conducted focus groups with women of
color f...
5 years ago
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In this essay on the dearth of conservatives in higher education, the
possible oppression of conservatives will be considered. I am obviously not
the first...
5 years ago
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Silence of the Night/Silent Night Gonzaga Choir
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My favorite "new" find for me while listening to Christmas music this year.
Listen for the message of Advent: "Spirit we wait on Your loving Son"
5 years ago
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Science & 1080
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This one is cross-posted from The Daily Blog. As Hayden Donnell said
yesterday morning in The Spinoff, anti-1080 activism has become both noisy,
and ugly. ...
5 years ago
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Kavanaugh for SCOTUS: So how fucked are we?
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Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, and Trump has
nominated Brett Kavanaugh to take his place on the Supreme Court. This
isn't a small de...
5 years ago
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Why are/aren’t we following you on Twitter?
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[image: iPhone with Twitter on a desk]Copyright: rvlsoft / 123RF Stock Photo
We’ve had some queries about why we follow who we do on Twitter, as we
follow ...
5 years ago
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A Simple Summer Reading Experiment That Just Might Work….
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Dear WTWL Readers, 8 Let me lay a truth bomb on you. I didn’t write this
as a blog post. I write a lot. But, […]
Related posts:
1. Goal Setting, A S...
5 years ago
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Mothers Are Oxytocin Machines
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Photo by Chiến Phạm on Unsplash It's the time of year when we honor and
thank mothers for all they do. I think their most important job is
literally wiring...
5 years ago
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Pumpkin Breadsmith Challah
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[Note: This mostly defunct blog is not, in any way, a baking or cooking
blog. But I needed somewhere to host this recipe, so here it is!] Pumpkin
Breadsmit...
6 years ago
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Savage Minds is dead! Long live anthro{dendum}!
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This will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will
live on. It will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there
wil...
6 years ago
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Comment on "A parsimonious neutral model suggests Neanderthal replacement
was determined by migration and random species drift"
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Note: This comment was originally posted on the article's Nature
Communications site on Nov. 10, 2017. As strong supporters of open,
reproducible science...
6 years ago
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How Scientists Predict If a Spacecraft Will Fall and Kill You
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Welcome to the supremely fascinating world of object reentry risk analysis.
6 years ago
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Archived!
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The Functional Neurogenesis blog contents have been archived at the Snyder
lab website: http://snyderlab.com/functional-neurogenesis-2009-2013/
6 years ago
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How many manuscripts to review?
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Question from a colleague about how many manuscripts to review:
I saw your note about being awash with review requests on Twitter.
I'm just curious what ...
6 years ago
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ADN basura: negacionismo y malentendidos (con cebolla)
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Un artÃculo en dos partes, publicado (como colaborador de Naukas) en el Cuaderno
de Cultura CientÃfica
Primera parte
Segunda parte
El concepto ADN b...
6 years ago
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Cerebral palsy and autism continued
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"Our findings support the need for a multidisciplinary approach to
management of children with CP [cerebral palsy] to adequately identify and
address all f...
6 years ago
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Cerebral palsy and autism continued
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"Our findings support the need for a multidisciplinary approach to
management of children with CP [cerebral palsy] to adequately identify and
address all f...
6 years ago
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Do bilinguals really have two souls?
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We keep reading media reports of studies which conclude that people who
speak more than one language are capable of perceiving some......
PAVLENKO, A. (200...
6 years ago
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The Ketamine Consensus?
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Ten years ago, ketamine was a drug best known for its popularity on the
rave scene. Yet it has since enjoyed a remarkable rebirth - as an
antidepressant. S...
6 years ago
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Dismantle the Poverty Trap by Nurturing Community Trust
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Understanding the precise reasons for why people living in poverty often
make decisions that seem short-sighted, such as foregoing more education or
taking...
6 years ago
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NSF funding: myth, hyperbole and luck
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Preproposal news is starting to leak out of the BIO directorate, and with
it a renewed sense of anguish among those who were not invited to submit a
full p...
6 years ago
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The Idea of Will
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Dorenbosch, Drs. M.M. (2015) The Idea of Will. [Preprint]
7 years ago
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Abilità linguistiche, extralinguistiche e paralinguistiche in pazienti con
lesioni focali all’emisfero destro
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Parola, Alberto and Gabbatore, Dr Ilaria and Cossa, Federico and Gindri,
Patrizia and Bara, Bruno G. and Bosco, Francesca M. and Sacco, Katiuscia
(2014) Ab...
7 years ago
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A Theory of General Reduction of Gene-Expression Manifesting as Autism
(1993 with 2014 revisions of presentation)
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Clarke, Robin P (2014) A Theory of General Reduction of Gene-Expression
Manifesting as Autism (1993 with 2014 revisions of presentation). [Journal
(Paginat...
7 years ago
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A Theory of General Reduction of Gene-Expression Manifesting as Autism
(1993 with 2014 revisions of presentation)
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Clarke, Robin P (2014) A Theory of General Reduction of Gene-Expression
Manifesting as Autism (1993 with 2014 revisions of presentation). [Journal
(Paginat...
7 years ago
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PERSONAS SIN HOGAR: INVESTIGACIÓN PROYECTIVA EN UN CENTRO DE ACOGIDA
HOMELESS: PROJECTIVE RESEARCH IN A SHELTER
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JESUS, JESUS DE BENITO CASTANEDO (2014) PERSONAS SIN HOGAR: INVESTIGACIÓN
PROYECTIVA EN UN CENTRO DE ACOGIDA HOMELESS: PROJECTIVE RESEARCH IN A
SHELTER. [P...
7 years ago
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Neural Mechanism of Language
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Liu, Dr. Peilei and Wang, Professor Ting (2014) Neural Mechanism of
Language. [Preprint]
7 years ago
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Neural Mechanism of Language
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Liu, Dr. Peilei and Wang, Professor Ting (2014) Neural Mechanism of
Language. [Preprint]
7 years ago
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Uner Tan Syndrome: Review and Emergence of Human Quadrupedalism in
Self-Organization, Attarctors and evolutionary Perspectives
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Tan, Prof. Dr. Uner and Tamam, Prof. Dr. Yusuf and Karaca, Prof. Dr. Sibel
and Tan, Prof. Dr. Meliha (2012) Uner Tan Syndrome: Review and Emergence of
Huma...
7 years ago
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A Word from Robert Dahl on the Democratic Function of the Women’s March
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Yesterday’s massive protest activity was impressive on its own, but it also
serves an important democratic function. In Robert Dahl’s 1972 classic book
on ...
7 years ago
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Des dollars retirés aux carburants fossiles
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La campagne de désinvestissement des carburants fossiles se mesure à
présent en milliers de milliards de dollars. Le mouvement, qui est parti de
zéro da...
7 years ago
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Ce soir nous serons nombreux à table
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La vie, la vie!
*Existe-t-il de la vie, ailleurs dans l’Univers? Éternelle question. Quasi
unanimement les scientifiques de tout acabit réponse oui. Oui,...
7 years ago
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Théorie de la décision, élections et primaires de la droite (et du centre)
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Note aux lecteurs qui passent par là : la primaire de la droite et du
centre aura eu le mérite de me faire réécrire en français ! Il s’agit
cependant essen...
7 years ago
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EU Referendum: Are you IN or OUT?
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Ever since the referendum campaign began in earnest, the public have
repeatedly called for clear facts about the pros and cons of leaving the
EU. With...
7 years ago
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Uproar over Kenny Harvard’s stripper joke misses larger issue:
Condescending & harmful anti-trafficking laws
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Strippers and sex workers have long been used as a trope for others’
agendas. From Chris Rock joking about keeping his daughter “off the pole,”
to Dr. Pau...
7 years ago
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Society for Industrial Archeology Website updated
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The Society for Industrial Archeology has a new revised home page and
website
8 years ago
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Debbie Marks wins Overton Prize
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It’s very exciting to announce that our very own Debbie Marks has won the
Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology
(ICSB). T...
8 years ago
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Do social crises lead to religious revivals? Nah!
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Back in 2010, I made a prediction: that the financial crisis of 2008 would
lead to an uptick in religion. It seemed reasonable enough. After all, the
study...
8 years ago
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Grand Challenges for Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality
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A few years back there was a survey of archaeologists to determine the 25
Grand Challenges that archaeology could help solve…That survey was pretty
specifi...
8 years ago
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Voyage of the Beagle (Non-fiction fan fiction)
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11/11/15 It’s #NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. In honor, and
because I had the day off work and am procrastinating from other tasks, I
spent the ...
8 years ago
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A note to anybody who is reading
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Hi, strangers who have suddenly started following me! I’ve pretty much
abandoned this blog; when I feel like writing I contribute something at
Dead Wild R...
8 years ago
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From the Archives: Asifa Majid on language and olfaction
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When I first ran across Asifa Majid’s article with Ewelina Wnuk in
Cognition, about how speakers of Maniq, a language indigenous to southern
Thailand, hav...
8 years ago
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Le droit à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie
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Christian Saint-Germain est professeur de philosophie à l’UQAM. Dans son
livre Le nouveau sujet du droit criminel, le philosophe et juriste examine
l’influ...
8 years ago
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Cognitive cues are more compelling than facial cues in determining adults’
reactions towards young children
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By Blasi, C. H., Bjorklund, D. F., Soler, M. R.
Previous research has demonstrated the significant influence that both
children’s facial features (Lorenz, ...
8 years ago
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White Chivalric Phallacy
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essay explaining the context of the Charleston shooter bullshitting about
“they areraping our women” as motive for his actions.
http://www.secularwoman.org...
8 years ago
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Smile
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This blog is obviously defunct in all but name, so time to make it
official. I have less and less to say here that isn’t better said
elsewhere. Overall, I ...
8 years ago
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Open Logic Project
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A new open-source advanced logic text, announced earlier this week on the
new blog: richardzach.org. Please update your links and subscriptions.
8 years ago
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Book Thoughts: Pauly’s Controlling Life
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In Controlling Life (1987), Philip Pauly explores how scientists have
sought to manipulate life for the sake of human benefit through a
biographical accoun...
9 years ago
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late blooming sociology?
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You may have seen Kieran Healey’s post about the most cited papers in
sociology by decade. Pretty interesting to noodle over, but it’s hard to
come up with...
9 years ago
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Guest Post: More Men Are Raped in US Than Women?
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Originally published at Echidne of the Snakes. Crossposted with permission.
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You may have come across that assertion before if...
9 years ago
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Scientific Consensus On Brain Training
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A lot of big cognitive scientists and neuroscientists endorsed the
following statement: “We object to the claim that brain games offer
consumers a scientif...
9 years ago
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DHCのダイエットサプリのおすすめ
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適度な運動をして脂肪を燃やし、筋肉をつけて痩せやすい体に。 理屈はわかっていても、ダイエットを継続する事はなかなか困難な場合があります。
食べたい物が食べられない、苦手な運動を続けなければならないストレス、なかなか痩せな […]
The post DHCのダイエットサプリのおすすめ appeared fi...
9 years ago
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Motor Learning Mechanism on the Neuron Scale
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Liu, Mr. Peilei and Wang, Prof. Ting (2014) Motor Learning Mechanism on the
Neuron Scale. [Preprint]
9 years ago
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Moving day!
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As of right about today, I'm moving both Denim and Tweed and my
professional site to a new domain: jbyoder.org. I've imported the complete
D&T archive to i...
9 years ago
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The Evolution of Cranial Capacity in Humans and Stem-Humans
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*(Hey, I'm actually writing on the blog's title subject today!)*
Here's a chart I've been working on for a while:
This shows *all known human and stem-hum...
9 years ago
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HMS Beagle Project at Seafair Haven 2014
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The HMS Beagle Trust has been in talks for several months with the new
owner of the tall ship *Earl of Pembroke*, the medical company Metaco Ltd,
and has s...
9 years ago
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Tod dem March of Progress
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Ich hasse dieses Bild so sehr, dass es schwer ist in Worte zu fassen.
Ursprünglicher Link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darwin-chart.PNG#filelin...
9 years ago
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Does Casual Pot Use Cause Brain Abnormalities?
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First, I'll put all my cards on the table; I believe at most, marijuana
should be legal, and at the very least decriminalized.
If you paid attention to lat...
10 years ago
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More than just a metaphor, Wright’s Adaptive Landscape provides inspiration
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[*Originally appeared on Nothing in Biology Makes Sense*]
Review of *The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology* edited by Erik
Svensson and Ryan Calsbe...
10 years ago
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A Christmas Gift from William Lane Craig: 5 Lumps of Coal
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William Lane Craig has written a short piece, A Christmas Gift for Atheists
-- Five Reasons Why God Exists, for Fox News in which he suggests that
atheists...
10 years ago
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Dynamics of the Corruption Eradication in Indonesia
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Situngkir, Hokky and Maulana, Ardian (2013) Dynamics of the Corruption
Eradication in Indonesia. [Departmental Technical Report]
10 years ago
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Three-Billion-Year-Old Plankton Found in Australia
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The Farrel Quartzite formation in Western Australia has yielded a group of
both spheroid and spindle-like microfossils believed to be planktonic
organisms....
10 years ago
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The impact of the BP oil spill on tourism
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Understanding the effects of a tourism crisis: The impact of the BP oil
spill on regional lodging demand From Journal of Travel Research Tourism as
one of ...
10 years ago
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Time to pack up and move
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Mike Taylor kept complaining about this wonderful e107 content management
system that I have used for over ten years on various sites. Now, I've
finally do...
10 years ago
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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants
in a structural VAR approach
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Title: Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their
determinants in a structural VAR approach Authors: Coad, Alex; Binder,
Martin Abstract:...
11 years ago
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No consistent advantage for planting soybean early
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MADISON, WI, March 16, 2009 -- Planting soybean on the optimum date
produces maximum yield and profit without increasing production costs.
Unfortunately,...
11 years ago
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Turing Test, Chinese Room Argument, Symbol Grounding Problem. Meanings in
Artificial Agents
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Menant, Mr Christophe (2012) Turing Test, Chinese Room Argument, Symbol
Grounding Problem. Meanings in Artificial Agents. [Conference Paper]
11 years ago
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On Social and Economic Spheres: An Observation of the “gantangan”
Indonesian tradition
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Situngkir, Hokky and Prasetyo, Yanu Endar (2012) On Social and Economic
Spheres: An Observation of the “gantangan” Indonesian tradition.
[Departmental Tech...
11 years ago
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An evolutionary behavioral model for decision making
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Romero Lopez, Dr Oscar Javier (2011) An evolutionary behavioral model for
decision making. [Journal (Paginated)]
11 years ago
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To Worship
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to kneel before a fiddler crab hauling debris out of a hole in the sand
_________________ to immerse in the osmosis of glances to hang a hammock in
the pau...
11 years ago
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Ayn Rand and Modern Politics
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Ayn Rand created a system of thought that is just like religious
fundamentalism in portraying a world without tradeoffs. This begins to
explain her endurin...
11 years ago
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Some books
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Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revoution: Gender
and the Seductions of Islamism [PDF] Angelika Bammer, Partial Visions:
Feminism ...
11 years ago
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The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl
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Image from Hochwagen Lab
This proposal was shouted out as “…one of the most important papers on the
control of meiotic crossing over…” (Hawley 2006). Since...
11 years ago
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New Website!
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Hi everyone. I’ve just launched a new website called The Daily Brain.
We’ll be providing daily doses of science and tech news … please come by
and visit!
11 years ago
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"Chimpanzee" Movie
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Disney's Chimpanzee has come out in theaters! The movie was primarily
filmed in Ivory Coast with the habituated chimps from the Tai Chimpanzee
Project and...
12 years ago
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Marxism, anthropology and science
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Wait for the music to stop! ChrisKnight2011-Pt1
12 years ago
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The Vicious Circle.
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Many research positions require previous experience in the field, but what
do you do when you don't know how to get research experience in the first
place?...
12 years ago
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Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts!
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I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get
hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it
all i...
12 years ago
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Pardon my brain
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As social beings, we’re very good at letting others know when we’ve
accidentally stopped being social. When we’ve missed something important in
a convers...
12 years ago
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Hey! I miss you!
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Dear Context and Variation readers,
I miss you. A lot. I used to love all our fun conversations in the comments,
and what cool ideas and questions you had....
12 years ago
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Hey! I miss you!
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Dear Context and Variation readers,
I miss you. A lot. I used to love all our fun conversations in the comments,
and what cool ideas and questions you had....
12 years ago
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CTI announces fellowships and post-doc positions
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The Center of Theological Inquiry, at Princeton University, is launching a
three year research Project on New Approaches in Theological Inquiry.
Funded by ...
12 years ago
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The Primate Diaries Has Moved to Scientific American
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I'm very pleased to announce that my long period of exile has come to an
end. The Primate Diaries has now found a permanent home at Scientific
American's n...
12 years ago
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Thoughtomics has moved!
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Exciting news: Thoughtomics has moved to Scientific American’s newly
launched blogging network! What will this mean for Thoughtomics as a blog?
Not much, a...
12 years ago
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Applications for our r-workshop are still being accepted - please apply by
June 15!
We are pleased to announce an intensive short course on using R to per...
12 years ago
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N1 Specialization in Children with Dyslexia
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*Accessibility:* Advanced
It's been a little while, but we've been talking about the N1 component and
how it relates to reading. Just to recap, the N1 co...
12 years ago
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The Division of Labor in Society
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Durkheim, Emile
1984 The Division of Labor in Society. New York: The Free Press.
In another paper I wrote about hunter-gatherers this semester, I used E...
12 years ago
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Hermione Granger and the Failures of Feminism
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Hermione Granger is JK Rowling's feminist presence in the *Harry Potter *series,
and she is a triumph. Hermione is a wonderful feminist character: smarter
...
13 years ago
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Eye-contact and complex dynamic systems: an hypothesis on autism’s direct
cause and a clinical study addressing prevention.
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McDowell, Dr Maxson J. (2010) Eye-contact and complex dynamic systems: an
hypothesis on autism’s direct cause and a clinical study addressing
prevention. [...
13 years ago
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The (wo)man behind the curtain
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There are a lot of things being written about me on the internet, so I
guess it's time to resurrect this blog just for a minute to put some stuff
out there...
13 years ago
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Let’s Talk About Tax, Baby
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Dear Incoming Members of Congress from the Tea Party, Do you like clean tap
water? How about our scenic and toll-free interstate highways? Do you think
911...
13 years ago
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Emission radio "les premiers Européens" France Inter
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France Inter le lundi 22 novembre à 14 heures: Emission Mathieu VIDARD -"
La tête au carré" Les films : Les Premiers Européens avec Axel Clévenot et
Evelyn...
13 years ago
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"Apostille au Crépuscule"
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Réponse à la haine par son contraire... Socrate a raison : mieux vaut subir
l’injustice que la commettre. Je n’ai pas répondu aux injures ayant
accompagné ...
13 years ago
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Are cancers a modern phenomenon?
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Yesterday, I came across a news report on a study by Professor Rosalie
David and Professor Michael Zimmerman of the University of Manchester, who
postulate...
13 years ago
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The monophyly of plants and insects
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I just received promotional information about a new book from Garland
Science publishers. "Genome Duplication; concepts, mechanisms, evolution
and disease"...
13 years ago
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RIP George Williams (May 12, 1926 - September 8, 2010)
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Evolutionary Biologist George Williams passed away last week. I credit
George with being a primary inspiration in my career choice. His *Adaptation
and Na...
13 years ago
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Des femmes et des hommes
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Nous sommes désormais rentrés dans nos laboratoires et la partie « analyses
» va pouvoir commencer. Un autre voyage, une autre aventure… Vous avez
compris ...
13 years ago
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New Blog
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New Domain: http://www.replicatedtypo.com . Please update your feeds as
I’ll no longer be posting on this blog.
13 years ago
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My greatest triumph!
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Sorry. I can't resist. John Carson, a fellow runner from Canada, unearthed
this photo from the archives of the Toronto Star. It's the finals of the
1500 me...
13 years ago
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More on Biological Radicalism
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[My apologies for the long hiatus in my posting. Real life has intruded in
a variety of ways, reducing the time I can devote to writing. And I’ve felt
obli...
14 years ago
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The sex chromosomes: keys to the evolution of human intelligence?
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Recent surveys of educational attainment and schooling suggest that girls
are outperforming boys all the way through from primary school to A-levels.
The r...
14 years ago
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Armenian genetics
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Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic
history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*
garb...
14 years ago
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David Chalmers: Effects of specialization
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It's interesting to compare answers to a question between the whole target
faculty population and those who work in the AOS associated with the
question. ...
14 years ago
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Excellent anthropological writing?
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Little help with a task?: I'm teaching first-year writing this year and
I've been asked to participate in a reading event for the National Day on
Writing. ...
14 years ago
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Why Causes Fear Science and the Truth
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This is my observation. Intelligent people are a minority.
There is an abundance of businesses, causes, and charities that are
addressing problems. Addr...
14 years ago
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