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I'm rereading Francis Galton's 1869 book Heredit...
The problem of racism has roots throughout history and is sadly still alive in Western culture and politics, writes Bilal Cleland. THERE IS NO DOUBT that
In his most recent book, How to Argue With a Racist, the geneticist Adam Rutherford set out a lucid account of how the basis for many widely held and apparently commonsensical ideas about race are pseudoscientific; and he lightly sketched, along the way, the historical context in which they arose and the ideological prejudices that
We call some people gifted and talented — possessing unusual, almost magical, mental agility. How do great minds tap into such a deep well of genius?
“It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it – and it’s predictable.” In the Netflix miniseries, The Queen’s Gambit, these are the words that chess prodigy Beth Harmon uses to describe her passion for the game, but I suspect that they also tell us something about the runaway success of this series in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The seven-episode series was viewed worldwide by more than 62 million people in its first month, making it the most-watched “limited scripted series” on Netflix. The show is visually comp...