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Another sign of secularization: Even those who call themselves religious talk less about God. Religions are becoming tribal & political, not creeds about the supernatural. t.co/15gaGukHC0
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Linda Gottfredson, an expert on occupational interests and intelligence, is the latest disinvited speaker. (She's also on a McCarthyite list of "extremists" by the Southern Poverty Law Ctr, once a respected civil rights org., now aggressively illiberal.) t.co/7DDmbobr8q
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International agreement bans commercial fishing in the Arctic - Positive News t.co/NtEH4mejX7
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What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature t.co/9VWxEJpJrA via @researchdigest
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42 years after The Selfish Gene, most science writers still don't understand that natural selection does not act for the good of the species. Otherwise excellent NYT article: Plants Can’t Talk. But Some Fruits Say ‘Eat Me’ to Animals. t.co/D1BaERho4W
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