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Race Is Not Biology
The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers
Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time
"Everybody Hurts" by Sachal Studios, Lahore, Pakistan
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Race Is Not Biology

From The Atlantic:

During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between "Hispanic" and "non-Hispanic' populations were genetically rooted. The claims mirrored...

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The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers

From Smithsonian:

17 tribes of Nagaland are united, historically, by an enthusiasm for heads. The Nagas: Hill Peoples of Northeast India—my reading matter on the two-hour drive from Dimapur to Kohima, in the state of Nagaland —contains dozens of references to head-taking but only one...

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Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking

Daniel Dennett in The Observer:

RESPECT YOUR OPPONENT

Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticising the views of an opponent? If there are obvious contradictions in the opponent's case, then you should point them out, forcefully. If there are somewhat hidden...

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Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist at the Same Time

Adrian Cho in Science:

Now they're just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or "state," of...