The 80 richest people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion
Hand it to the rich — no, wait, they already took it. Anyway, they get the job done. From my latest Read 2 roundup, a connection of pieces on wealth pain...
Tag: racism
James Watson as genetic error
Adam Rutherford addresses James Watson’s attempt to dodge his past: Like all contemporary biologists, my career is largely based on his work. The medal? I...
Read 2: Trouble at Vassar, peace in Rwanda, success at the Strand. Plus Angela Merkel’s secret & how brains create agency.
The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel. By George Packer at The New Yorker John Kornblum, a former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, who still lives in Berlin, said, “...
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Whites Win, Because Genes. My Times review of “A Troublesome Inheritance”
Today the New York Times Book Review published its advance online version of my review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance. (It will appear in print th...
Research Outtakes: Lynching the Irish
Research offers so many diversions from the main thread one is following. Yesterday it was Blériot flying the Channel. This morning produced this distracting od...
The Allure of Gay Cavemen
Guest post by Eric Michael Johnson The following guest post by Eric Michael Johnson is part of the Primate Diaries in Exile blog tour. You can follow other stop...
How does Williams syndrome prevent racism? It’s subtle
If such comments communicate racism, they can spread it too. But not to Williamses. Politely assuming straightforward talk, they notice neither the cape nor its...