Word: arguments
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...live commentary about the event via Twitter should include the word #hackedu in his 140 characters. In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Then we all started talking, and as we did, a shadow conversation unfolded on the screen: summaries of someone's argument, the occasional joke, suggested links for further reading. At one point, a brief argument flared up between two participants in the room - a tense back-and-forth that transpired silently on the screen as the rest of us conversed in friendly tones...
...cause of violent conflicts in a post-Cold War world. The theory drew controversy for its focus on differences between civilizations when it was first published in 1993. Some at the time criticized the work for reinforcing and oversimplifying cultural divisions. In 1996, he expounded on his argument in the book “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,” which has since been translated into 39 languages. “He was a scholar, first and foremost,” said wife Nancy A. Huntington...
...think kindness might sometimes hinder the pursuit of success or achievement? I don't think there is an incompatibility between kindness and leading a life that gives you satisfaction and pleasure. The core argument of the book, in a sense, is that one almost requires the other. Kindness is a huge source of pleasure for people. There's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't make it a selfish emotion...
...unnatural.” But why worry? The fetishisation of the natural displayed by those who draw hard and fast distinctions between chemical enhancement and other forms of striving for excellence is dependent upon a senseless equation of the way things are with the way things must be. The argument loses its appeal when we realize that our bodies and minds were not created by an intelligent planner but by a biological process that sought to maximize the number of viable offspring, not the amount of human happiness and achievement. We need not be content with what life hands us?...
...Cooking Made Us Human,” released Monday, Wrangham argues that the invention of cooking allowed for our primate ancestors to become humans. “We are the cooking apes, the creatures of the flame,” said Wrangham in an interview yesterday. Wrangham bases his argument on wide-ranging scientific evidence, both biological and behavioral. Looking at studies in nutritional science, Wrangham determined that cooked food is softer and more easily digestible. “In this way,” he said, “cooking food increases the number of calories we get from...