Andre Costopoulos
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Well, @AndreCosto put it all together here quite well, so there's (still) not much to add: https://t.co/lx1FTWoNn9
archeothoughts.wordpress.com
Major media outlets have recently been reporting on a new sensational claim that animal carvings on a stone pillar at the archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey are a very early form of cale…
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The academic administrators motto: Reasonable solutions to unreasonable problems.
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Grading finished student essays now makes about as much sense as grading their calligraphy when they can use a typewriter.
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Clear indictment of our academic publishing system and culture: https://t.co/Lp3iUxX4i5
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Nature - Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.
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HJ Muller, 1956. Geneticists giving racialist anthropologists of the day a run for their money. I'll have to check, but in the whole early 60s kerfuffle in Current Anthro on Scientific Racism (again?), I don't remember much reference to this genetics stuff.
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. James Hunt, President of the Anthropological Society of London, 1866:
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The outcome of eugenics if the rich are in charge: “And perhaps the most benighted elements could be cajoled or coerced into developing themselves into more callous slaves, who could work longer hours on a cheaper grade of bean”. Brave New World came out a year before this.
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HJ Muller, 1933, The Dominance of Economics Over Eugenics.
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State sanctioned racialism and the morphological approach to human classification allegedly died in WWII.
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Looking forward to reading this. I have been moving in a similar direction. Evaluate the process, not the product. Engage with students individually. I am also looking for other means than in the moment verbal interaction, for the sake of accessibility.
When I announced earlier this week my return to classroom teaching this fall, I said I was "trying to imagine a text-less classroom." I was reaching for something Willingham has now articulated clearly in his piece about AI and education. We've been confusing text production
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Dobzhansky, sharing the struggle in 1956. From The Biological Basis of Human Freedom.
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Hopes and fears of the attendees of the Genetics Congress, Edinburgh, 1939.
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That is indeed a good piece. Nice to see a Chancellor emphasize the importance of investment in universities as public infrastructure.
Our (excellent) Chancellor has just published a very good piece about the importance of the university sector for Canadians' current and future prosperity. https://t.co/sP3fQXVI9P
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@JamesAl0410008 I think of “evolution” in any system as “the fate of transmissible information” often appending “in an economic context.” This definition embraces stasis 😊. Ideas and other cultural artefacts are transmitted through speech, writing etc etc etc.
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We have evolved so that most humans are aware of the suffering of others, and so that most humans know that the suffering of others is like their own. That should be a sufficient basis to start building an ethical system, and to live ethically in practice.
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CH Waddington, in the Evolution of an Evolutionist, 1975.
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