Remember, a vaccine doesn’t have to give “sterilizing immunity”, in which you can’t catch the virus ever again. If it simply builds our resistance to the virus so that COVID-19 infections are mild, that will be enough.
Eugenics is a precise word. It does not mean “selective breeding”, which Dawkins — an award-winning Oxford biologist — seems to think it does.
This has happened to me. More than once. In her defense, I think she was probably just nervous. So I post it more for amusement than mocking.
If you’re using a home soda maker like Burt Likko, you’re in for a surprising side effect.
The sickle cell trait. It’s often given by biologists as an example of balancing selection, which is when two different alleles (traits) are actively maintained in a population. In the case of the sickle...
From BlaiseP’s recent obituary of Kenneth Waltz: Da Vinci once said “Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with...
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Higher Education in the 21st Century. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsyou seem fun.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsI'm not grading your papers, you are. What that says about either of us, I leave to the reader.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Jonathan Chait has an article in the Atlantic (reprinted here at AOL): Why the COVID Reckoning Is So…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25As someone who'd ban ALL campaign contributions, this is not a disqualifier for me. Plus, I don't li…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I provided a link of her rallying against AIPAC on social media. on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsquite mad, indeed.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Agreed. on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThey also didn't want to hold their nose at work with people that made them wretch. Many of them als… on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationswestern lens of martyrdom culture. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25You had two that auto-trashed. I fished them out.
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