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...Such mistrust of science, where it occurs, is not entirely surprising: Consider the great number of “experts” who discredited themselves through spectacularly imprecise predictions and pointless internecine skirmishes. The public cannot help but feel confused to the point of paralysis by the holding pattern of contradictory studies and untenable claims into which today’s scientific discourse can lapse...
...Deploying pen and ink, pencil, woodcuts, crayons and oils, the drawings in the book are exalting, filling you with joy and revelation. But crucially, Tan can also write: his stories effortlessly rearrange the pattern of reality in prose that is evocative and supple. Seek this book...
...that link disappeared. Instead, one had to write an email explaining why he or she did not want to pay the $75. Moreover, by 2008 one had to handwrite that same letter and send it to the Student Receivables Office. There is, in short, an obvious and disturbing pattern toward making the opt-out process more annoying and time-consuming than it ever should have been...
...more worthwhile story of assimilation in Australia, where Aboriginal children were removed from their families to be blended into white culture and purged of their heritage (a story more effectively depicted in the 2002 drama “Rabbit-Proof Fence”). Nullah, though, with a speaking pattern and attitude resembling Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” is mostly ineffective as a face of the tragedy. Instead he’s just another participant in a long parade of stereotypes.“The only thing you ever...
...nature as the source of male violence. Though Wrangham stressed that its being natural should not be an excuse. “I tend to agree on the feminist line that every man is a potential rapist because men are a member of a species that have a certain pattern,” Wrangham said. Social constraints are then crucial to preventing this male violence. “The reason we are presented here with civilized men behaving well is because we live in a society with important constraints applied through education, through upbringing,” Wrangham said. Haig...