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Insanity & Doom Update XXVIII
Item City Council wants new schools chancellor to 'take bold action' City lawmakers are demanding that incoming schools chief Richard Carranza bring his focus on ethnic and LGBTQ studies with…
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Insanity & Doom Update XX
Item The Beatles: Has evolutionary biology proved the Fab Four's early work wasn't 'musically important'? "I think that our estimation of the Beatles' importance at that time, or how we…
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Insanity & Doom Update VII
Item It's time to take the 'great' white men of science off their pedestals As this latest controversy shows, science also has its monuments to white supremacy. Like Confederate monuments,…
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Bad Sex
Only one from the mailbag today, because of the length and importance. From Jay, who points us to the New Atlantic's major study on sexuality. Bookmark this one, folks. You'll…
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Diversity, I.E. Mandatory Uniformity, At Universities
Regular readers will recall I lost one university job when I gave an incorrect answer to the two gentlemen interviewing me. The question put was, "Have you been involved in…
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Why Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People?
Why are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People? Couple of academics just asked the question, "Why is Intelligence Negatively Associated with Religiousness?" "The answer", one report says, "is that religion…
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Music, God’s Gift to Man–and to Robots? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor's note: The original post can be seen at Kurland's place. A few days ago my wife pointed out a news item announcing a robot that (or who?) can compose…
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Vatican Zero — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
We all know the saying that history repeats itself, 'first as tragedy, second as farce'. That was Marx's take on Hegel's musings about history. Marx was particularly noting the rather…
