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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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  1. Sep 10

    Upcoming Events – Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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  2. Sep 10

    'The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality'—A Review

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  3. Sep 9

    New interview by of Richard Dawkins by Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. via

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  4. Sep 9

    Enough With The Climate Jargon: Scientists Aim For Clearer Messages On Global Warming

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  5. Sep 9

    2. Change point analysis of historical battle deaths, Fagan, B. T., Knight, M. I., MacKay, N. J., Wood, A. J.

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  6. Sep 9

    Two statistical analyses verifying declines in war deaths over time are now published: 1. Statistical sightings of better angels: Analysing the distribution of battle-deaths in interstate conflict over time - C. Cunen, N. L/ Hjort, H. M. Nygård, 2020

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  7. Sep 9

    Summer Postcards from the Edgies on : Ian McEwan, Haward Gardner, Diana Deutsch, Dan Dennett, Susan Blackmore, me, others...

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  8. Sep 9

    Inspiring video about the breakthrough in from and . It makes me proud to have spend 22 years at that institution. (The woman speaking is geophysicist Maria Zuber, VP for Research.)

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    MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy: New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power. Video: Christopher Harting Produced by: Christine Daniloff
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    Sep 8

    The Swedish steel company HYBRIT produced the world's first batch of carbon-free steel. That's a big deal because steel is notoriously hard to decarbonize and a major cause of emissions [emissions from iron/steel are about as high as the EU's emissions].

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  10. Sep 8

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  11. Sep 8

    Eager to see this new book, which covers some of the same ground as The Blank Slate (including a hereditarian left) almost 20 years later. "Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?" via

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  12. Sep 8

    Incredible Winning Photos From the 2021 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest via

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  13. Sep 8

    See my forthcoming Rationality for an easy primer on the concepts of conditional and compound probabilities.

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  14. Sep 8

    Risk communication matters. 1/5K: The daily chance of a Covid infection among the vaccinated. (Some problems w that #: A base rate, not conditional on exposure; & risk compounds over days. But still an improvement over innumerate earlier reporting.)

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  15. Sep 8

    No longer always 30 years away: & Commonwealth Fusion Systems get a 20-Tesla hi-temp superconducting magnet to work, a big step toward workable fusion .

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  16. Sep 8

    Harvard faculty and staff (including me) remember 9/11 via

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  17. Sep 7

    On Matters of Race, Randall Kennedy (beloved Harvard colleague) Demands Thinking Over Feeling - review of a book of his essays by

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  18. Sep 7

    REPORT: 3 in 4 campaigns targeting faculty expression result in punishment via

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  19. Sep 7

    There is a myth that "cancel culture" is a myth. But literally hundreds of scholars have been targeted, & a majority of the attacks result in punishment, often firings. Report here: via

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  20. Sep 6

    This week's random quote from Rationality (the forthcoming book):

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