Tuesday, January 13, 2015
IT’S BRED IN THE BONE. IT’S IN MY DNA. REALLY?
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I do not hear as much today the phrase “It’s bred in the bone,” when a behavioral trait is considered familial. While I was growing up i...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
MORE THOUGHTS ON THE FERGUSON, MISSOURI GRAND JURY DECISION
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I have read a lot about race as a biological or, (more accurately, for humans) as a pseudoscientific idea. There are no human races. Ther...
Saturday, November 8, 2014
How the World Works: Great People or the People’s History?
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I like to read different slants on topics. I learned that from my father, an elevator operator, who brought home the discarded newspape...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Holism and Reductionism are to biology as liberalism and conservatism are to politics
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I try to read widely so I not only can plug my knowledge of genetics into the liberal arts, but into unconventional ways others see sci...
Friday, September 26, 2014
A TRIPLE PLEASURE WORTH SHARING
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I was invited by the Molecular Biology Institute and Biology Department at Indiana University in Bloomington to give a talk in their wee...
Saturday, September 20, 2014
WHY ARE MOST PEOPLE SLOW TO ACCEPT THE FINDINGS OF SCIENCE?
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In my youth I read with great excitement Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People . In it the hero, Dr. Stockmann, warns his city off...
Friday, September 12, 2014
A Thought Experiment on Imagining the Future
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Suppose you could go back 200 years to 1814. Imagine that you could hear and ask questions but were not allowed to reveal anything of the ...
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