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No Dangerous Knowledge: We can handle the truth
If belief in evolutionary theory made us demonstrably behave worse, should we protect people from learning about it? If a factually incorrect religious belief made…
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Elephant Seals: Men should try not to be like them
Animals don’t exist as cautionary tales for humans, but if they did, elephant seals would’ve clearly been created to tell men how not to behave.…
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Tastefully Painted Statues: In antiquity, they had taste after all
This is a thorough debunking of the claim that the ancient Romans and Greeks painted their statues in garish colors. Also, do yourself a favor…
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The EU-Mercosur Agreement: Free trade is doing well elsewhere
This week, the European Union decided to go ahead with an agreement with Mercosur, the South American common market. It’s a victory for free trade.…
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Plumbing, and Lack Thereof: Our ancestors’ sanitary arrangements were objectionable
If we invent a time machine, I predict that we’ll get temporal tourists returning from the past, horrified about how people used to do their…
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Gateway: A sci fi novel from 1977 that has aged well
Gateway by Frederik Pohl won both the Nebula award and the Hugo, which was a bigger deal back when it came out almost 50 years…
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