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...level of fame whose pressure threatens to break even her seemingly indominable happiness.Powers thus combines the recent public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines happiness from a thoroughly modern—and therefore highly empirical??standpoint. “How programmed are we?” Russell vulnerably begs. His girlfriend, a therapist, responds honestly, but then adds encouragingly, “Temperament can self-modify. People can get free, or at least a little freer.” This is not enough...
...which makes him a possible interstellar Manchurian Candidate. So why do dinosaurs matter?Dinosaurs matter because to believe that dinosaurs walked with man, an individual must stubbornly cling to a belief despite all available evidence against it. The young-earth creationist mindset is dogmatic and anti-empirical??which is a very dangerous thing to have in a leader. The current President has already demonstrated an incredible ability to at times disavow the reality that all evidence points to. At this time, when the United States is engaged in two wars and a financial crisis, to have a Vice...
Richardson, who is also a member of the board at the EastWest Institute, said that Stern’s academic qualifications as well as her “empirical?? experience in the Middle East are some of the reasons why she was selected to address those attending the conference...
...Seeking to explain that proposed requirement, some argued, unconvincingly, that it was needed because students couldn’t learn scientific method, as well as science, in their two required science courses. The mathematicians argued that Harvard could not mount a curriculum excluding mathematics, so the “empirical?? area was broadened to include “mathematical reasoning.” All of which leaves reason nowhere in particular...
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