Twitter may not be the best medium for explaining the science of eugenics to a wary public, as the sometime Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Richard Dawkins, discovered this week. Professor Dawkins, now aged 78, renowned as an evolutionary biologist and as the author of best-sellers about genetics
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It’s official. Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault. #MeToo movers and shakers around the world can rejoice – as well they should – over the conviction of a man who committed inexcusable crimes. But while Weinstein deserves to be put away, has the movement his fall spawned gotten out of
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It’s starting to dawn on people – not least of all Democrats running for president – that Bernie Sanders might win the Democratic presidential nomination. The longtime independent socialist senator from Vermont rolled up yet another early state win, this time a landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses. And he may have solved the problem that doomed his 2016
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When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point. That moment, captured in black and white by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal
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The Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, has spoken publicly for the first time about her experiences of motherhood – and she’s remarkably down to earth. Kate’s comments on parenting were made in the context of a longer interview about early childhood development with the “Happy Mum, Happy Baby” podcast. While a podcast is a modern
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On June 1 of next year, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will mark the centennial of a catastrophe – an entirely man-made one. More specifically, an entirely thought-made one. It will be very painful to acknowledge. In its immediate aftermath, in fact, Tulsans of a few generations ago tried hard to ignore and forget it. But you
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