Sublime

Multiple feedback loops

“The unpalatable truth must be faced that all postmenopausal women are castrates,” pronounced American gynecologist Robert Wilson in a 1963 essay;

In a study using data from the Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics from 1999 to 2001, Professors Mark Cullen, Clint Cummins, and Victor Fuchs from Stanford University reported that a common set of twenty-two socioeconomic and environmental variables (including education, income, air pollution, and access to healthy

will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country

When Crystal was sixteen, she stopped going to high school. At seventeen, she was examined by a clinical psychologist, who diagnosed her with, among other things, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, reactive attachment disorder, and borderline intellectual functioning. When she turned eighteen, she aged out of foster care. By that

breed pure blond-haired, blue-eyed “Nordic stock,” the eugenicists’ sought-after ideal. Eugenicists desired to eliminate the bloodlines of undesirables such as Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Irish, and the mentally or physically ill.

According to the Meriam Report, Indian children were six times as likely to die in childhood while at boarding schools than the rest of the children in America.

In 1932, Ørnulf Ødegård conducted a large psychiatric study that found that the number of Norwegian immigrants treated for psychotic disorders in Minnesota was significantly higher than those of both Norwegians who had stayed put and native-born Americans of Norwegian descent. Ødegård speculated that the difference was due to the arduous realities