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…)
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Editor’s Note:
Robert K. Graham (1906–1997) was co-founder and director of The Repository for Germinal Choice, a California-based sperm bank which stored and distributed the sperm of Nobel Prize winners and other men of exceptional ability. He invented and manufactured the plastic used for shatter-proof eye glasses and was author of The Future of Man
Joseph Wright, A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary, 1766
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Whatever happened to the Repository for Germinal Choice? I read that it closed in 1999, but were the children born from this program ever studied?
All prospective parents signed statements promising that they would take part in surveys in the future, (more…)
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Detail from a painting by Pedro Berruguete on the life of Santo Domingo de Guzmán depicting Dominican friars burning heretical books
The Stalin and Hitler regimes were both noted for their repression of scientists and intellectuals who did not toe their respective party lines.
Many Left-wing academics, centered on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, were sponsored to leave Germany and emigrate to the US, where they took over the social sciences and created a virtual totalitarianism of their own in American academia.[1] (more…)