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Intrinsic Primacy: Consciousness, the Impetus of Man
Review of The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science by Erik Hoel
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A History of Intelligence
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To Build a Healthy Super-Organism: A City for Citizens
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A Total and Complete Shutdown of... History
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The Dimensions of Social Inequality in America
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The Leaves Turn. Recapping Q3 2023
May the pages turn faster than the leaves fall.
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Gene Discovery in Early-Onset Breast Cancer
The race to find BRCA1, and the consequences for cancer gene discovery.
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A History of Intelligence
What evolutionary steps powered our potent cognitive capacities? Does understanding this history of the brain help us build artificial intelligence?
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There's Nothing to Rethink
Is sex-negative feminism just traditionalism in disguise? Reviewing Christine Emba's Rethinking Sex.
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Understanding Variation in PTEN
One of the biggest challenges facing geneticists in the era of next-generation sequencing is interpretation of genomic data.
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Flaubert Perfects Literary Realism in Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert's perfectionism proves literary fiction doesn't have to be hard on readers.
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Praetorian PTEN: Protecting Cells from Cancer
Holodoxa's Cancer Genome series continues. Part 2 on PTEN, exploring its function in cells and why it is important to stopping cancer.
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The Illusion of Shared Power and the Elite-eat-Elite World
Review of a well-known book of Machiavellian political theory, a counterintuitive defense of freedom.
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From Clinic to Genome and Back Again: Cowden Syndrome and PTEN
The first in a series on hereditary cancer/cancer syndromes as part of the Cancer Genomes channel.
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A look at what science, literature, technology, and politics reveal about the human condition. Most content will consist of book reviews and short essay pieces.
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