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12Oct/160

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.

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12Oct/160

Donald D. Hoffman | University of California, Irvine

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11Oct/160

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.

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11Oct/160

‘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.

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11Oct/160

Groundwater Basics

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11Oct/160

It’s time for science to abandon the term ‘statistically significant’ | Aeon Essays

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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.

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7Oct/160

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

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6Oct/160

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.

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6Oct/160

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?

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4Oct/160

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.

Source: Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death - Home | Ideas with Paul Kennedy | CBC Radio

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