Human beings are extremely self-similar to one another; evolutionary biologists have debunked so-called eugenics, and racism is pseudoscientific. What does that leave for social science genetics as a research program?

McFail has an unbroken streak

“mobilizing the national guard to ensure students' full unimpeded access to the education system?” That's just crazy talk, picture unrelated

We could try finishing Reconstruction and disestablishing Jim Crow and letting the chips fall where they may

Just outside DC in Prince George's is the archive for it. It was overwhelming, to see the level of documentation of the genocide, especially understanding that significant portions of it were collected and organized to rationalize that genocide

I like to ask if there's a story as to why it's like that, or, if I can see a connection to something from earlier, to ask is it like that because of that thing we were talking about before

No, I'm saying that some animal vocalizations can be described with syntax and that syntax mapped to semantics verified by observation. What these vocalizations lack is recursion, which is present in human language

I'm rather fond of crows, and while I understand their chattering as little as they understand mine I don't find it surprising that theirs can be described syntactically. The chain of events leading to us having this conversation is weirder than a murder of crows congregating in a tree, though

Hominids were controlling and using fire before Homo Sapiens showed up; we learned how to do it from those who already were. Animal vocalizations have syntax and semantics, but spoken language is at a higher level of complexity; we invented spoken language after we learned to control fire

I remember meeting a friend at a field hockey match prior to having lunch; his friend, who was going to be joining us, was refereeing. Over time I noticed his dog and realized that the dog was not following the ball, but was following the match, that the dog had learned it watching his carer

Memory predates language, as a species and as individuals. We remember faces before we remember what things we babble at them that get them to echo back or do something that delights us. We made fire before we had a word for making it or what arose from making it

It doesn't matter how far over the horizon you see it coming, you still aren't ready when it arrives