What is the foundation for the notion of human equality ( Read more... )

European conquest of the Americas is presented as a story of unabashed racism: white Europeans brutally subjugated the Indians because they were racially different ( Read more... )

...We investigated the association between a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 applicant’s self-identified race or ethnicity and the probability of receiving an award. Although proposals with strong priority scores were equally likely to be funded regardless of race, we find that Asians are 4% and black or African-American applicants are ( Read more... )

NPR was broadcasting King's "I have a Dream" speech, ending

...This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." ...And when this happens... we ( Read more... )

The Great Plains are prairies rather than forests because trees are not growing on these plains. But why are trees not growing here? The average rainfall is not significantly different from the forested parts, and supporting grasses 10-12 feet tall takes a lot of water. The typical answers go like that ( Read more... )

Here we have a filthy rich man suggesting to tax him and the dirty 1% much more. But why should they be taxed more, if their wealth is going to be reinvested anyway? He says that concentrating wealth in a few hands upsets the distribution of political power. Yet his appeal to the federal government IS the stark example of upsetting political power ( Read more... )

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If liberty is inalienable natural right, as we hold it, how can the convicts be deprived of liberty as just punishment? The Bible does not consider imprisonment (as opposed to jailing before a trial) as the lawful mode of punishment. There is no "tradition" justifying this barabarian practice except for the perverted sadism of Germanic pagans, ( Read more... )

There is this oft repeated saying that the difference in protein coding sequences between chimps and humans is ONLY 1.5%. This supposedly means that we are not that different... Eh? If you do not believe your own eyes telling otherwise, do the math: About 75% of these substitutions will change the amino acid. The average length of a human protein ( Read more... )

I've noticed that the increasing number of photomodels are having squinty eyes. Why is that? It turns out, men younger than 30 statistically have a different standard of feminine beauty from the older ones. The older ones like level eyes. The younger ones like slightly oblique axis. The older men like arched brows. The younger ones like lower brows ( Read more... )