Brian Miller on Emotional Intelligence in Science, Scientific Tensions, and More

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The context is when students with a religious background enter the sciences at the undergraduate or graduate level. Source
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Be Prepared: Here Are Portable Neanderthal Toolkits

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Folks, that is impressive behavior. As David Coppedge says, let’s ditch the historical racism. Source
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Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

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Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source
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