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  • Don’t Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow

    Don’t Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow0

    “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s five-year-old son six decades ago. A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while

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  • Don’t Blame Lying on the Brain

    Don’t Blame Lying on the Brain0

    The recent finding that telling lies induces changes in the brain has stimulated a number of misrepresentations that may wreak more harm on our understanding than the lies on which they report. CNN’s headline runs, “Lying May Be Your Brain’s Fault, Honestly,” and PBS reports, “Telling a Lie Makes Way for the Brain to Keep

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  • Don’t Believe Those Who Say Liberal Arts Degrees Aren’t Worth It

    Don’t Believe Those Who Say Liberal Arts Degrees Aren’t Worth It0

    Zachary First, Managing Director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, opines at PayScale.com on just how misguided is the question: “Can we, in economic terms, justify investing in a degree in the humanities?”  In an article titled, “When the Humanities are Worth It,” First gives an example of a degree that, ten years ago, no

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  • Don’t Believe the Polls

    Don’t Believe the Polls0

    Have you seen the polls lately? I’m referring to those surveys which the media tout as predictors of how Donald Trump will fare in the November election. If you look at these polls and support the President’s reelection bid, a feeling of doom and gloom has probably set in. If this is how you feel,

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  • Don’t Be So Fast to Dismiss IQ Tests

    Don’t Be So Fast to Dismiss IQ Tests0

    ‘IQ tests just measure how good you are at doing IQ tests.’ This is the argument that is almost always made when intelligence-testing is mentioned. It’s often promoted by people who are, otherwise, highly scientifically literate. You wouldn’t catch them arguing that climate change is a myth or that vaccines might cause autism. But saying

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  • Don’t Be a Lazy Atheist

    Don’t Be a Lazy Atheist0

    • February 5, 2016

    While lecturing on the atheist Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) in graduate school, my university professor lamented about the state of atheism today. Men such as Feuerbach, he explained, were passionate in their atheism, and undertook a thorough study of a religion such as Christianity in order to criticize it. (Feuerbach’s critique of Christianity is encapsulated in

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