Trump and the Nuclear Keys – The New York Times
Nuclear launch officers count on the president to have sound judgment. That would not be possible under a President Trump.
Donald D. Hoffman | University of California, Irvine
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The concept of race lacks scientific support, Harvard professor says | Toronto Star
“Race is a scientifically indefensible concept with no biological basis as applied to humans,” says Harvard anthropology professor Daniel Lieberman.
Source: The concept of race lacks scientific support, Harvard professor says | Toronto Star
‘I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse’ – The New York Times
Inside the final weeks of Hillary Clinton’s cautious — and surprisingly risky — campaign.
Source: ‘I’m the Last Thing Standing Between You and the Apocalypse’ - The New York Times
It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ | Aeon Essays
Source: It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ | Aeon Essay
Here lies an opportunity to ponder the idea that your and my sense of objects, entities, events and one another is nothing more than a collection of expectations or predictions.
This modest cosmology means that the subject matter of inductive and deductive debates:"What is really going on? What can we really say about it?" has the status of questions about angels dancing upon pin heads.
Perhaps we are talking about utilitarian commonalities across irreducibly private renderings of what is going on, from points of view we call ourselves and one another
This does not mean that the distinction between deductive and inductive is not important, but inductive understandings could be closer to the flowing nature of what is going on than hard-edged deductive syllogisms.
Basic income is coming to Ontario: now what? | Toronto Star
Basic income on its own, however designed, will not be enough to eliminate poverty or achieve the other objectives its proponents are pursuing
Source: Basic income is coming to Ontario: now what? | Toronto Star
Omega-3 oils in farmed salmon ‘halve in five years’ – BBC News
Levels of beneficial omega-3 oils in farmed salmon have fallen significantly in the past five years.
Source: Omega-3 oils in farmed salmon 'halve in five years' - BBC News
Why are Nobel Prize winners getting older? – BBC News
Nobel laureates are getting older in every field but one. Could it all be down to quantum mechanics?
Source: Why are Nobel Prize winners getting older? - BBC News
Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death – Home | Ideas with Paul Kennedy | CBC Radio
Paul Kennedy has his understanding of reality turned-upside-down by Dr. Robert Lanza Dr. Lanza provides a compelling argument for consciousness as the basis for the universe, rather than consciousness simply being its by-product.