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Forgotten Childhood Memories Still Shape Your Life
Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. By Erika Hayasaki.
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Do Your Family Members Have a Right to Your Genetic Code?
When a woman gets her genome sequenced, questions about privacy arise for her identical twin sister. By Emily Mullin.
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What Was the Nerd?
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence. By Willie Osterweil.
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On epigenetics: we need both Darwin’s and Lamarck’s theories
Darwin’s theory that natural selection drives evolution is incomplete without input from evolution’s anti-hero: Lamarck. By Michael Skinner .
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Martin Aurelio reviews The Nine Laws by Ivan Throne
What if Julius Evola had written a samurai treatise? What if Lao Tzu had written a long, systematic book of philosophy instead of the short, poetic chapters of the Tao Te Ching? What if the famed, long-lost book On Nature by Heraclitus – he who was called “The Dark” – were to be found and published?
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Small Worlds
A closer look at the Kondo craze indicates that it promotes the liberationist dogmas of the restless spirit over against the disciplines of an engaged mind. By Chris Lehmann.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
What I saw at Stoicon 2016. By Blake Seitz.
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Why We Are Witches: An A-Camp Roundtable
“I’m not a witch who casts spells; I’m a witch who takes things people have cast aside and makes them new again.”
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7 Female Doctors Speak Out on In-Flight Racism and Sexism
Female physicians share their stories. By Mandy Oaklander.
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On Coupling: An Inventory
“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.” By Melissa Matthewson.
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Does Your ‘Self’ Have a Soul?
Most religions claim that there is more to the self than the brain. The traditional understanding is that human sentience and selfhood are conveyed via some kind of nonphysical substance, often called a ‘soul.’ By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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Philosophers on Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal, in recent years has portrayed herself physically, and on social media platforms, as a woman of black African-American heritage. However, her parents, who are both white say their daughter is not African-American. With Esa Diaz-Leon, Meena Krishnamurthy, Rebecca Kukla, Charles Mills, Daniel Silvermint, and Quayshawn Spencer.
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When in doubt, shout
Why shaking someone’s beliefs turns them into stronger advocates. By Ed Yong. (Oct. 19, 2010)
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What Are We Really Seeing When We Look in a Mirror?
Inside our complicated relationship with mirrors. By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.
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The Surprising Similarities Between Whales and Primates
A whale biologist reports from the world’s biggest primatology conference. By Shane Gero. (Aug. 24, 2016)
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Billy the kid
A tale of repentance, redemption and reinvention. (June 30, 2016)
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Why I love my possessions as a mirror and a gallery of me
I am my things and my things are me. I don’t want to give them up: they are narrative prompts for the story of my life. By Lee Randall.
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The secret of taste: why we like what we like
How does a song we dislike at first hearing become a favourite? And when we try to look different, how come we end up looking like everyone else? By Tom Vanderbilt.
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Hair
Human hair has a remarkable mystique.... By Scott Lowe.
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As Women Scorned
We’re supposed to follow a certain narrative when our partners leave us. What happens when we flip the playbook? By Lauren McKeon. (Jan. 4, 2016)
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