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Category Archives: Science
Bernard Lewis at 100
To mark the occasion of his 100th birthday, NR has a multi-author homage to Bernard Lewis, the great Princeton scholar of Islam. Victor Davis Hanson, one of the contributors, distills the essence of Lewis’ scholarly lens: From the 1990s onward, … Continue reading
The Empty Brain
Robert Epstein has a nice essay in Aeon critical of the reductive materialism that dominates current consciousness research (“The Empty Brain”). First and foremost, Epstein rightly critiques the dominant contemporary metaphor of the brain as being like a computer: The … Continue reading
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Diversity & Societal Distrust
Amidst their vast forest of stories about Hamilton, Trump, and transgendered bathrooms, the NYT has an op-ed by two sociologists titled “Don’t Blame Diversity for Distrust”. The authors, Maria Abascal & Delia Baldassarri, take issue with conventional interpretations of the … Continue reading
LSD Brain Imaging
There’s a fascinating new study on involving LSD brain imaging, offering potential insights into consciousness: MRI scans showed that LSD caused brain activity to become less coordinated in regions that make up what is called the default mode network. The … Continue reading
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Harvard’s Eugenics Era
In Harvard Magazine, Adam Cohen writes of Harvard’s awful, racist, legacy and the prominent role progressives of all stripes played in working with the awful, racist movement’s assumptions (“Harvard’s Eugenics Era”): In August 1912, Harvard president emeritus Charles William Eliot … Continue reading
Anthropologist: White Skin Developed 8,000 Years Ago
From a team of researchers led by Iain Mathieson: An international team of researchers as headed by Harvard University’s Dr. Iain Mathieson put forth a study at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists recently. Based … Continue reading
Bowling Alone with Donald Trump
In 2007, liberal scholar Robert Putnam stumbled upon a sociological discovery that he sat on for years. Why? His research showed that where there is more Diversity™, there is higher distrust among the citenzry, and this distrust crosses racial lines. … Continue reading
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Social Media as a Model for the Collapse of Liberal Democracy
Brett Stevens has a very intriguing and thought provoking post titled “Social media as a model for the collapse of liberal democracy“. We are now familiar with the social media cycle: 1)New site appears and the movers and shakers — … Continue reading
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Study: More Diversity = Less Happiness
Breitbart has news on another study that echoes Robert Putnam’s infamous conclusions on the unintended consequences of diversity: A study has found that an increase in “diversity” makes existing residents of a area feel unhappier and more socially isolated, while … Continue reading
Greg Johnson: “In Defense of Prejudice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxwnBKxgNg