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The Orville is a new science fiction/satire series created by Seth MacFarlane (Fox, 9 p.m., Thursdays). It takes place 300 years in the future, and MacFarlane is captain of a space ship, the Orville.
If Seth MacFarlane hasn’t read The Culture of Critique, he must have guessed what it has to say. (more…)
Джон Синглтон Копли, семья Копли, 1776
Richard Lynn
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Richard Lynn
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Richard Lynn
I have no recollection of when I first got in touch with Richard Lynn except to say that it was a very long time ago. I remember mailing him various papers and clippings that I thought might be helpful to him at least as early as 1980. I’ve always felt it was my “civic duty” to help Richard in any way I can, because he was, and is, the world’s foremost eugenicist. (more…)
Abbott Handerson Thayer, My Children, detail
Abbott Handerson Thayer, My Children, detail
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Robert Klark Graham
Robert Klark Graham invented the plastic used for shatter-proof eyeglasses, and he made a fortune. After he sold his company, he began thinking about how he could use his money to help the world. He talked at length with Hermann J. Mueller, a Nobel Prize-winner in genetics, and they came up with the idea of a sperm bank that would store and distribute the sperm of exceptional men. They named it The Repository for Germinal Choice. (more…)
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University of California, Santa Barbara
In 1975, I was excited to begin the doctoral program in Psychobiology at UCSB. It was a far cry from the excellence of Berkeley, but then so were the vast majority of other places. I had always been interested in sex differences, so I began studying the effects of pre-natal hormones on masculine and feminine behavior. (more…)
View of San Francisco from the UC Berkeley campus
View of San Francisco from the UC Berkeley campus
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One Saturday afternoon when I was 12 years old, I was at home in Memphis sitting in our den, staring into space, when my father walked into the room.
“Marian, are you aware of the fact that intelligence is largely hereditary?” he asked. (more…)
Las coviviendas modernas comenzaron en Dinamarca en la década de 1960.
Las coviviendas modernas comenzaron en Dinamarca en la década de 1960.
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Traducción por A. Garrido. Enlace original aquí
En 1516, Sir Thomas More publicó su ahora famosa obra, Utopia. Una de sus recomendaciones fue que las viviendas fueran construidas para grupos de unas 30 familias para crear pequeñas aldeas que compartieran instalaciones comunes, comidas, y cuidado de los niños. (more…)
Modern cohousing began in Denmark in the 1960s.
Modern cohousing began in Denmark in the 1960s.
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Spanish translation here
In 1516, Sir Thomas More published his now-famous work, Utopia. One of his recommendations was that housing be constructed for groups of about 30 families in order to create small villages which share common facilities, dinners, and child care. (more…)
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In 1986, Marian Van Court recorded three 90-minute tapes of an interview with Arthur Jensen (1923–2012), professor of educational psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. (more…)
