Cultural beliefs and stereotypes that associate men but not women with “raw intellectual talent” can help explain the differing gender gaps across various academic disciplines, according to a new study by Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton), Andrei Cimpian (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Meredith Meyer (Ottterbein), and… Continue reading

Originally posted on Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul.: © Art Tatum. Pure undiluted genius.  Sheer magic. ___________________________ © 2015 Arvin da Braga.  All Rights Reserved. Continue reading

Originally posted on simonhlilly: UNDOING Sitting without time, Outwith its wild unheard roar. Moments snowmelt vanishing, Undoing forgiven, unknowing acquiesced. Oh, Birds of dawn, the hills are laced with cold. Blue air placid, blanket weighed. A roll of mist is… Continue reading

Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: A few days ago, I came across this statement by the notable biologist Peter Medawar: ‘the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.’… Continue reading

Society, law and economic necessity all conspire to make work a near-essential requirement. Would it be better if this w Source: disinfo.com Continue reading

At the suggestion of appalled supporters, Bonnie Weinstein finally compiled a selection of choice missives into a book, To the Far Right Christian Hater: You can be a good speller or a hater, but you can’t be both. I was… Continue reading

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Abstract The manner in which reality is perceived and conceptualized has profound implications for many levels of human existence. Source: www.mundusimaginalis.org Continue reading

The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work Source: www.salon.com   Because it delivers real skills, philosophy doesn’t go out of fashion the way the vague, trendy… Continue reading

Originally posted on coromandal: Mitra Tabrizian The most dangerous fundamentalism today is banking. Nevertheless, there are other fundamentalisms that harm us, as there always will be: religious, political, racial etc. Salman Rushdie has a beef with the religious variety; he wrote… Continue reading

The great majority of languages borrowed their word for coffee. Unlike the words for, say, milk or water, which developed within a given language family over thousands of years, the word for coffee hopped from one language to another, and… Continue reading

In the decade since the National Academy of Sciences reported on the alarming difficulty scientists were facing in setting their own research directions—and declared “the time for action is now”—it’s only gotten harder for scientific upstarts to nab major grants, according to a perspective by… Continue reading