Charles Darwin: Autographed document could fetch record price - BBC News - 1 views
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Charles Darwin: Autographed document could fetch record price
How Is ‘Dune’ So Prescient About Climate Change? Thank This Native American Tribe.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Lawrence Hrubes
Opinion | Before 'Dune,' Frank Herbert Learned From Native Americans - The New York Times - 0 views
Forgetting My First Language | The New Yorker - 1 views
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No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language.
How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding - The New York Times - 0 views
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How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding
My Terezín Diary | The New Yorker - 0 views
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What is most striking to me today about the diary I kept seventy-five years ago is what I left out.
Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture | WIRED - 1 views
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So this was the real test. Would native-speaker Swedes, seven years after getting a new pronoun plugged into their language, be more likely to assume this androgynous cartoon was a man? A woman? Either, or neither? Now that they had a word for it, a nonbinary option, would they think to use it?
How your name defines how people think about you - Quartz - 2 views
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How the sound of your name shapes the way people think about you
Should Patients Be Allowed to Choose - or Refuse - Doctors by Race or Gender? - The New... - 0 views
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Everyone knows that doctors must not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexuality, race, religion or national origin when they select or treat patients: It’s an obligation they accepted when they entered the health care profession. (That doesn’t mean they have to take all comers; they can turn away patients for various other reasons.) But should patients be able to choose clinicians on the basis of such attributes? The answer is: It depends.
Was E-mail a Mistake? | The New Yorker - 0 views
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There’s nothing intrinsically bad about e-mail as a tool. In situations where asynchronous communication is clearly preferable—broadcasting an announcement, say, or delivering a document—e-mails are superior to messengered printouts. The difficulties start when we try to undertake collaborative projects—planning events, developing strategies—asynchronously. In those cases, communication becomes drawn out, even interminable
Notre-Dame and the Paradoxes of Historical Preservation | The New Yorker - 1 views
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Notre-Dame and the Paradoxes of Historical Preservation
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker - 0 views
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Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science - The New York Times - 0 views
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It had long been taken for granted, for example, that scientific facts and entities, like cells and quarks and prions, existed “out there” in the world before they were discovered by scientists. Latour turned this notion on its head. In a series of controversial books in the 1970s and 1980s, he argued that scientific facts should instead be seen as a product of scientific inquiry.
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker - 1 views
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if you were looking at an ancient Greek or Roman sculpture up close, some of the pigment “was easy to see, even with the naked eye.” Westerners had been engaged in an act of collective blindness. “It turns out that vision is heavily subjective,” he told me. “You need to transform your eye into an objective tool in order to overcome this powerful imprint”—a tendency to equate whiteness with beauty, taste, and classical ideals, and to see color as alien, sensual, and garish.
Watch Out Workers, Algorithms Are Coming to Replace You - Maybe - The New York Times - 1 views
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In Israel, for instance, we have one of the largest laboratories for A.I. surveillances in the world — it’s called the Occupied Territories. In fact, one of the reasons Israel is such a leader in A.I. surveillance is because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Explain this a bit further.Part of why the occupation is so successful is because of A.I. surveillance technology and big data algorithms.
Stunning dot density map shows London's religious clusters - 5 views
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London's a shallow Christian sea with islands of other faiths Although London is predominantly Christian, this map shows an archipelago of different faiths throughout the city.
What Should I Do With Old Racist Memorabilia? - The New York Times - 4 views
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The album was disintegrating, and we removed the cards. Over the years I forgot about them, but in getting ready to move, I came across them again. One in particular is offensive in its captioning and art to people of African descent. While I presume there is a market for this type of memorabilia, there is no way I would seek to profit from it. I offered it to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. I never heard from them, so it moved with us.My husband thinks I should throw it away, but that feels wrong. I feel it is history that we should acknowledge, however painful and wrong. Your thoughts?
Google Employees Protest Secret Work on Censored Search Engine for China - The New York... - 1 views
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Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company’s decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China, have signed a letter demanding more transparency to understand the ethical consequences of their work.
The Lifespan of a Lie - Trust Issues - Medium - 0 views
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Zimbardo’s standard narrative of the Stanford prison experiment offers the prisoners’ emotional responses as proof of how powerfully affected they were by the guards’ mistreatment. The shock of real imprisonment provides a simpler and far less groundbreaking explanation. It may also have had legal implications, should prisoners have thought to pursue them. Korpi told me that the greatest regret of his life was failing to sue Zimbardo.
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Much of the meeting was conducted by David Jaffe, the undergraduate student serving as “Warden,” whose foundational contribution to the experiment Zimbardo has long underplayed. Jaffe and a few fellow students had actually cooked up the idea of a simulated prison themselves three months earlier, in response to an open-ended assignment in an undergraduate class taught by Zimbardo.
Think You Always Say Thank You? Oh, Please - The New York Times - 1 views
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But as it turns out, human beings say thank you far less often than we might think.A new study of everyday language use around the world has found that, in informal settings, people almost always complied with requests for an object, service or help. For their efforts, they received expressions of gratitude only rarely — in about one of 20 occasions.
Neuroscience and Moral Responsibility - The New York Times - 2 views
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ARE you responsible for your behavior if your brain “made you do it”?Often we think not. For example, research now suggests that the brain’s frontal lobes, which are crucial for self-control, are not yet mature in adolescents. This finding has helped shape attitudes about whether young people are fully responsible for their actions. In 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty for juveniles was unconstitutional, its decision explicitly took into consideration that “parts of the brain involved in behavior control continue to mature through late adolescence.”
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