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With critical support from nonprofits like the Galapagos Conservancy and advice from an international team of conservation scientists.
What if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?
We harbor no illusions that a single article will alter anyone’s mindset on the issue of race differences in a deeply appreciable manner.
If this rate of letter propagation continues, we’ll soon have an acronym that spans several lines and will be worth well over two thousand points in Scrabble.
All of this discussion leaves unanswered the question of how we decide if something represents a breakthrough — after all, there isn’t an international court of arbitration for creativity.
The anti-democratic attitude of the liberal elite is absurd from a theoretical viewpoint because a democratic judgment represents the will of the majority...
The goal of public health is ostensibly primary prevention: this means a focus on anticipating, (rather than treating), disease, disorder, and injury.
The situationist idea that personality is an illusion is an arresting one, but it is false.
To our knowledge, we have yet to see a similar example applied specifically to race.
To go from noticing that genetic differences were making a difference to knowing which genetic differences were making a difference, geneticists had to move from the classical twin methods to the modern “molecular” methods.
We should start at the beginning, which is to say, conception. That magical moment when sperm meets egg holds an important insight.
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.