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Listen: Ignaz Semmelweis Against the “Experts”
It’s just one of many historical instances of experts clinging to an old paradigm in the face of contrary scientific evidence they don’t like.
Infinity War, Human Exceptionalism, and the Ultimate Resource
For Labor Day weekend, we celebrate the human creative capacity, and analyze a blockbuster movie.
Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error
He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us.
Human Exceptionalism Explains the Longing for a “Human Touch”
No doubt evolutionary psychologists could a tell a story to explain this. They always can. Something about tribes of hunter-gatherers.