December 2011
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american anthropological association, a stand... →
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American drug policy has direct effects on discrimination against Mexicans and Central Americans. We do not know how much Mexico’s drug war has cost. It is not a simple calculus, as many of the expenses are incurred at the state and local levels, and indirect costs are many. At the federal level, though, budgetary expenditures in...
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Ancient Organisms Found Alive in Salt Crystals →
“They are trapped alongside a type of algae called Dunaliella, which just so happens to produce the food the archaea need to survive—the sugar alcohol glycerol,”
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Noam Chomsky, on consciousness
Bertrand Russell asked, “How comes it that human beings, whose contacts with the world are brief and personal and limited, are nevertheless able to know as much as they do know?”
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Aristotelian lines: the world is structured in a certain way and that the human mind is able to perceive this structure, ascending from particulars to species to genus to further generalization and thus...
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Liaoning discovers largest Yan tomb →
After analyzing the unearthed pottery as well as the construction style of tomb passages and coffins, experts confirmed that this large tomb was built by the Yan Kingdom during the Warring States period.
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Speculation on exhuming Pablo Neruda's body →
To study whether or not he was poisoned by government officials for opposing Pinochet…
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WatchExcellent documentary.
Essentially, the film covers a specific course (Man: A course of Study), taught in the United States following the educational reforms of the seventies. The goal of the course was to teach children about what it means to be human while avoiding ethnocentric biases. The class attempted to portray humans as animals beyond cultural boundaries and used a specific film series...