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The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but phys...

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

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I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

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One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

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Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Isra...

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Noam ChomskyGaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

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The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us i...

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If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...

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This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

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Stephen Jay GouldLeonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

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Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreogr...

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, the...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually s...

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