I posted this on someone else’s FB feed, but I’ll put it here too. Here’s 16 reasons that I support Biden that don’t include my utter contempt for everything Trump represents. Joe Biden has actually accomplished quite a bit in his political career, and some of the things he has…

Student evaluations are biased? Yes, yes, they are. Research has repeatedly shown that students’ evaluations of teaching quality show a range of biases. For example, Anne Boring, Kellie Ottoboni and Philip B. Stark argue on the LSE’s Impact blog that: Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are strongly associated with the…

By Profs. Pervez Hoodbhoy and Scott Atran (posted by Greg Downey) — After he circulated his address to the UN Security Council on extremism (available here), Prof. Scott Atran received the following response from Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy of Pakistan. Prof. Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist, essayist, national security advisor, and social activist. A prize-winning scientist with a PhD from MIT, Prof. …

Presentation by Prof. Scott Atran to the United Nations Security Council, 23 April, 2015. On 23 April, 2015, Prof. Scott Atran addressed the UN Security Council, to our knowledge the first time an anthropologist has ever been asked to speak to this body. In particular, he spoke to the Ministerial Debate on ‘The Role of Youth in Countering Violent Extremism and Promoting Peace.’ His…

Are endocrine disrupting chemicals changing our species? — An Italian study in 2012 found that men’s penises were growing smaller over time — two centimetres lost from grandfather to grandson in the twentieth century. Conservative radio bloviator Rush Limbaugh knew who to blame: ‘feminazis, the chickification, and everything else’ linked to feminism. …