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In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of
... See moreClyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
Science in the service of willful blindness: How could so many smart people have missed the obvious?
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The universally lauded Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate is a full-frontal assault on the implicit idea that biology plays virtually no role in social issues and norms. Nicholas Wade, at the time a New York Times science writer, wrote A Troublesome Inheritance about “Genes, Race and Human History.”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
