Tag: St. Louis
Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift
Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down?
Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian
Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed
The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later.
Biologist: It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism
Organizers of the St. Louis World’s Fair believed human zoos would “shed light on the theory evolved by Darwin as regards the evolution of the human race.”
Stephen Meyer, James Croft: Philosophers Battle Over the God Hypothesis
Croft ultimately had the worse of the argument on substance, as I intend to show over several forthcoming posts.