Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President – The New York Times
Donald Trump is a man who dwells in bigotry, bluster and false promises.
Source: Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President - The New York Times
Do dialect speakers get the same benefits as bilinguals? | Aeon Essays
Source: Do dialect speakers get the same benefits as bilinguals? | Aeon Essays
This argument contradicts notions I have put forward about the negative consequences of multilingualism and multiculturalism. There may be a way to combine both possibilities. As well, if executive function improvements (and resistance to dementia) can be discerned in multilinguals, does this not suggest that specialization and urbanization, which reduce requirements for executive functions, might not be toxic?
A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find
Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggest that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.
Source: A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find
(3) Epistemic Pluralism, Epistemic Relativism and ‘Hinge’ Epistemology | J. Adam Carter – Academia.edu
According to Paul Boghossian (2006, 73) a core tenet of epistemic relativism is what he calls epistemic pluralism, according to which (i) 'there are many fundamentally different, genuinely alternative epistemic systems' , but (ii) 'no
Liberals cancel Ontario lottery business sell-off | Toronto Star
Queen’s Park has cancelled a high-stakes scheme to cash in on the sale of the province’s $3.8-billion-a-year lottery business, but will continue with “modernization” that should see players buying tickets on smartphones.
Source: Liberals cancel Ontario lottery business sell-off | Toronto Star
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Angry’ Face
Why would this gender-based difference be in play when there is no underlying physiological or neural basis? The answer may involve suggestions I have made about the universal inner directedness of women as compared to occasional, always scrawny manifestations in men.
Women are inner directed because they have enormous responsibilities and are equipped to meet them.
Whenever we say 'emotional' we are referring to these responsibilities and reliably-occurring internal resources. (If these resources were not internal they would not be reliably occurring!)
The word 'emotional' is also a disingenuous way of referring to proceedings whereupon value enters the world.
Men do not bring value into the world because they have no idea what it would look like. They are, however, anxious to help out with value-generating projects - if some woman will only point them in the right direction.
This is why men are on the lookout for emotional women. This is why men present as having a keen, dispassionate mien. Men are hunting for truth even though they have no idea of what it consists of. This is why every man hopes to latch onto (upon) some woman who knows where truth lies and is willing to share this understanding, given a suitable quid quo pro.
When women start turning up in hunting arenas, when they start contesting in competitions they were once content to convene and judge, benchmarks and values are threatened and there is a sense that the centre may not hold.
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Why women look mad when men look serious.
Source: Hillary Clinton’s ‘Angry’ Face
Atheist minister Gretta Vosper to face formal United Church hearing | Toronto Star
Controversial minister could be defrocked, but it may be weeks or months before a final decision is reached, church executive said.
Source: Atheist minister Gretta Vosper to face formal United Church hearing | Toronto Star
US probes ‘IS chemical rocket attack’ on American troops in Iraq – BBC News
So-called Islamic State may have fired a chemical rocket at American troops based in northern Iraq, the US military says.
Source: US probes 'IS chemical rocket attack' on American troops in Iraq - BBC News
US election: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump compared to world leaders – BBC News
How do Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton stack up against world leaders like Merkel, Trudeau and May on key issues?
Source: US election: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump compared to world leaders - BBC News
Obama: 50 countries to take in 360,000 refugees this year – BBC News
Hard to argue against President Obama's logic.
However I think the present refugee crisis reflects two processes that are being papered over with global empathic responses. The first involves the culpability of 1st World Nations for the economic and political circumstances spawning global violence and desperation.
The second involves the culpability of 1st World Nations in compassionate refugee projects. These undertakings paper over complicities in what is going on. They also seduce beleaguered populations into tolerating regressive economic and political proceedings. They do not engage these problems because they hope to take advantage of them sufficiently to be able to afford to emigrate to more auspicious climes
If people being abused understood that they had no avenue of egress except figuring out connections between the way they live and inequitable proceedings this would nurture circumstances wherein their torments could be repaired from the bottom up.
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President Barack Obama elicits a global pledge to take in 360,000 refugees from war-torn countries this year - double last year's.
Source: Obama: 50 countries to take in 360,000 refugees this year - BBC News