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POPSI am not my Genome Here is a succinct statement of an important point, and a corrective to some of the )often implicit, taken for granted) assumptions regarding research findings in biology (including neuroscience). It makes the point that within and across competing explanatory paradigms (which by the way, are constrained by the human identity they seek to explain!) an acceptance of overdetermined factors (or, if you orefer, a collection of several fifferent 'necessaries') is productive of ways of understanding and advancing research.
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POPSThey Wanna Know "In exchange for the decoding of their DNA, participants agree to make it available to all — along with photographs, their disease histories, allergies, medications, ethnic backgrounds and a trove of other traits, called phenotypes, from food preferences to television viewing habits." The project has drawn criticism from scientists and bioethicists who caution that even its highly educated volunteers cannot understand the practical and psychological risks of disclosing information long regarded as quintessentially private."
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POPSIs Language a Window into Human Nature? the way it parses the world around us, the way it uses shortcuts and assumptions would have served our hunter-gatherer ancestors well, but it is less than perfect for dealing with some of the problems we face in the 21st Century.
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POPSWhy we curse-What the @#$%? In English-speaking countries today, religious swearing barely raises an eyebrow. Gone with the wind are the days when people could be titillated by a character in a movie saying "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."... IN DEPTH ANALYSIS AT http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807
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POPSPinker Thinks Some Stuff Pinker, if you asked me, is an intellectual mediocrity of the first order--in other words of the worst kind. He's good looking, popular, glib, and not really capable of understanding the big topics he likes to write about. One day he'll go out of fashion I suppose, but I probably won't be around to enjoy vindication. Oh well.
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