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Charles Darwin: Autographed document could fetch record price - BBC News

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:16:51 -0000

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Charles Darwin: Autographed document could fetch record price

Tags: science, natural, biology, evolution

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Opinion | Before ‘Dune,’ Frank Herbert Learned From Native Americans - The New York Times

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:20:55 -0000

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How Is ‘Dune’ So Prescient About Climate Change? Thank This Native American Tribe.

Tags: arts, science, indigenous knowledge systems, literature

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Forgetting My First Language | The New Yorker

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:49:25 -0000

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No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language.

Tags: language, identity, culture, migration, immigration

by: Lawrence Hrubes

How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding - The New York Times

Thu, 28 May 2020 10:25:55 -0000

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How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding

Tags: history, memory, museum

by: Lawrence Hrubes

My Terezín Diary | The New Yorker

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:21:44 -0000

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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.

Tags: history, memory, war, holocaust, ethics

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture | WIRED

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:39:14 -0000

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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?

Tags: language, linguistic determinism, gender

by: Lawrence Hrubes

How your name defines how people think about you — Quartz

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:44:46 -0000

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How the sound of your name shapes the way people think about you

Tags: language, emotion, assumptions, linguistic determinism

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Should Patients Be Allowed to Choose — or Refuse — Doctors by Race or Gender? - The New York Times

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:41:55 -0000

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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.

Tags: ethics, medicine, racism, gender

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Was E-mail a Mistake? | The New Yorker

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:21:54 -0000

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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

Tags: technology, communication, assumptions, computers, business, economics

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Notre-Dame and the Paradoxes of Historical Preservation | The New Yorker

Wed, 15 May 2019 13:08:25 -0000

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Notre-Dame and the Paradoxes of Historical Preservation

Tags: arts, architecture, history, memory, culture

by: Lawrence Hrubes

How Google Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map – OneZero

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 05:41:45 -0000

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"“Maps don’t just show the world — they change the world,” says the geographer Mark Graham. “They affect how we interact with the world and understand the world. In doing so, they shape the world itself.”

Residents couldn’t prove it, exactly, but they believed the Google Maps error was both a symptom and cause of their displacement. “They took our name from us and no one knew about it,” Hemphill-Nichols says. “Once you take our identity, you plan to take everything else.”" - markfrankel18

Tags: TOK, map

by: markfrankel18

Where Proof, Evidence and Imagination Intersect in Math | Quanta Magazine

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:42:38 -0000

Tags: TOK, math

by: markfrankel18

Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? - The New York Times

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 06:48:42 -0000

Tags: TOK, technology, ethics

by: markfrankel18

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind - The Atlantic

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 08:58:40 -0000

Tags: TOK, reason, bias

by: markfrankel18

Can there be a "very good dog?" Philosophy has an answer — Quartz

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:21:15 -0000

Tags: TOK, ethics

by: markfrankel18

A Man Says His DNA Test Proves He's Black. He's Suing. - The Atlantic

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 08:04:14 -0000

Tags: TOK, science, race

by: markfrankel18

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:07:57 -0000

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Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?

Tags: medicine, health, technology, doctors

by: Lawrence Hrubes

Speaking in Whistles: The Whistled Language of Oaxaca, Mexico | Open Culture

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:07:33 -0000

Tags: TOK, language

by: markfrankel18

On Social Media, No Answers for Hate - The New York Times

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 05:32:21 -0000

Tags: TOK, technology

by: markfrankel18

Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science - The New York Times

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:29:04 -0000

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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.

Tags: science, facts

by: Lawrence Hrubes