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Imagine no Continue reading Imagine this isn’t here. Actors’ representation of American political discourse. Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler examine major psychological currents that contribute to dysfunction in American politics in their book, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. They gathered a wealth of information from the American National Election Studies data to explain the current polarized disarray of American political discourse. In particular, they Continue reading American Political Dysfunction Explained, Sort-Of There is a strange conflict in the scientific community that revolves around some bizarre understanding of types of science and, seemingly, the scientific ego. Many people categorize some subjects of study as “hard science” and some as “soft science.” We’re talking No True Scotsman seems to have sneezed on Continue reading Elitist science Today I had the unusual experience of meeting up with 2 old friends I hadn’t seen in about a year. I was struck by the common bond these 2 friends had with their interaction with me. I recently posted a link to this article. It expresses my own belief that “when the Continue reading A Tale of Two Treatments Although I am a godless liberal, I am not generally opposed to religion. I understand that religion has the potential to do a lot of good for many people. I realize that shared mythologies can be powerful contributors to cohesive societies. That said, what I am strongly opposed to is the harm that arises from Continue reading I Can Dress Myself, Thank You. Alice and the Red Queen, from Lewis Caroll’s illustration for “Through the looking glass” (1871). Today, I want to write about sex (but, do not be worried, nary shall a mention be made of Dublinian elevators or, as they say in Dublinese: “lifts”). You see, sex comes with a bit of Continue reading Of sex and red queens…
This week I’ll be attending The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 (TAM9) in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with many of my SheThought co-writers. TAM9 is the annual conference of The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) that brings together skeptics and critical thinkers for several days of talks, panels and myriad activities. Each year Continue reading SheThought Happens in Vegas Warning: Possible sexual abuse triggers. I’ve written about linguistic relativity in the past. Briefly, there is ongoing and evolving research that attempts to explore the relationship between acquired language and perceptions of reality. The classic example from way back when I was in college was that because snow and ice are
Continue reading Gerontophilia (Sex!) and Linguistics I’m addressing you directly, here, because I feel that’s what is appropriate. It always feels awkward to read about yourself and not have people directly talking to you about whatever it is they think is going on with you. Also, I think some of the conflicts going on that are related to you in the Continue reading Dear Richard Dawkins,
A Rinderpest epidemic in the 1900ies (image FAO). In the last few weeks and in the general indifference of media everywhere, the FAO has been celebrating an event of rather tremendous import: Rinderpest was officially declared eradicated, joining smallpox in the all too short list of such eradicated diseases. This Continue reading Good-bye Rinderpest! |
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