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Words Are Thinking Tools: Praxotype - Scientific American Blog Network
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We use cookies to provide you with a better onsite experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Skip to main content. Words Are Thinking Tools: Praxotype. Words are thinking tools (as Daniel Dennett notes). New word-tools can sometimes avoid the baggage built into prior terms and thinking patterns. On September 27, 2013. Words are thinking tools (as Daniel Dennett notes. Biologists describe organisms in terms of genotypes. Our p...
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Is Breaking Bad Darwinian? - Scientific American Blog Network
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We use cookies to provide you with a better onsite experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Skip to main content. Is Breaking Bad Darwinian? Darwin was no Darwinian. Martin Luther King Jr said that before me. He was correct historically, scientifically, and morally. It’s a bad break for Darwin, and us, that his name is used to distort his ideas. On October 1, 2013. Darwin was no Darwinian. The New York Times. Of a ruthless f...
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The Most Dangerous Jargon Viruses - Scientific American Blog Network
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We use cookies to provide you with a better onsite experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Skip to main content. The Most Dangerous Jargon Viruses. Rational is the secular holy. It is a sacred prestigious label in mind work. We look to the rational to save us. Yet some professors of a rational-is-holy faith aren’t being wholly rational. On October 4, 2013. In a useful comment ( here. Words are key thinking tools. Jargon vir...
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Non-Grapefruit and Fruitful Non-Science - Scientific American Blog Network
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We use cookies to provide you with a better onsite experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Skip to main content. Non-Grapefruit and Fruitful Non-Science. Reason is larger than science. So Leon Wieseltier reminds us in his essay Crimes Against Humanities, his reply to Steven Pinker’s Science Is Not Your Enemy. If well practiced, science reduces errors, but it grants no immunity to nonsense. On September 13, 2013. Quickly enc...
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Justice Is in Our Nature - Scientific American Blog Network
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We use cookies to provide you with a better onsite experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Skip to main content. Justice Is in Our Nature. On May 29, 2013. Concludes, after intensive analysis of 50 representative hunter-gatherer cultures, that our ancestors likely experienced a radical political change. Evolving from a hierarchic apelike ‘might is right’.social order. Boehm says all surviving hunter-gatherers enforce law-li...
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I'm Not Hanging Noodles on your Ears. That's what Russians say when they're not pulling your leg. From National Geographic Books. A surreptitious science gift book, with 1,000 funny and intriguing expressions from around the world. These odd sayings, say a lot about the cultures they come from. And a lot about how odd the human mind can be. Illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits. Jag's latest project is Errors We Live By. Short Exoteric Essays—on flawed ideas we used to run our lives. Reveals t...