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Effect of racial and gender discrimination today
Wealth and race in the U.S.. From Chang (2010). The legacy of racial and gender discrimination persists (like segregated proms in Mississippi). Attitudes are, slowly changing over the course of...
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Boredom in a fractal world
Brazilian butterfly Doxocopa laurentia (from Wikipedia) A few of my students have been complaining that we don’t do enough different things from week to week for them to write a different newsletter...
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Socratic Dialogue: The God in the Machine
Synthesizing Cycle 1′s theme of, “What is Life”, I’ve given the students the option of choosing a personal novel where the question of life and sentience are important themes. Frankenstein and Feet of...
View ArticleWhat’s the difference between humans and animals?
In the field of cognition, the march towards continuity between human and animal has been inexorable — one misconduct case won’t make a difference. True, humanity never runs out of claims of what sets...
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Humans, 90% bacteria + 10% us
90% of the cells in your body are bacteria and other provocative facts about the Domain Bacteria are the subject of a great but long article by Valarie Brown. [R]esearchers have also discovered unique...
View ArticleBetween reticence and loquaciousness
Montessori normalization lies somewhere between the extremely reticent and the overly loquacious. I have both endmembers in my classroom, so I’m wondering it would help or hurt to use Lucius Aemilius...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Making of the Peace
Here’s a wonderfully serious piece in the magazine Foreign Policy on what the wizarding world should do to recover and reconcile now that Voldemort has finally been vanquished. … if history teaches us...
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