136–137). MacKinnon also makes the point that ‘sex is regarded as what women are for’ (2016, p 453). One objection to my view, which was brought to my attention by an anonymous referee, is that, if we want to make things gender neutral, why favour ‘levelling up’ the protection...
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries...
I find it astounding that at one of the finest institutions of higher education in the world, home to some of the most brilliant students I have ever encountered, sleep is regarded as optional. We are a school of science and technology. Here, facts and logic reign supreme. Yet despite ...
President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland). Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been ...
But more importantly, there is no coherent and safe way in which we can make suffering a part of safe, well- constructed intelligence, so we should not rely on things like justice and rights in our attempt to incorporate AI into our society. There is a concern that we...
“evolution is far from being proven scientifically” (Lord and Marino1993; Cunningham and Wescott2009; People for the American Way Foundation2000) (as Shtulman2006notes, “those who do not endorse the claim that Darwin’s theory of evolution has been well supported by evidence tend to endorse...
"In any case, they regarded it as unnatural, perverted behavior, and found it difficult to believe that men would become sexually aroused bywomen's breasts, or that women would find such activities pleasurable," Dettwyler wrote. In the cultural view, men aren't so much biologically drawn to...
It's a highly regarded effort, and Hainline is enthusiastic about working with respected partners to assert leadership in brain-injury research. "We all need to take a step back and stop saying nothing is happening," he says. "Cooperation I never dreamed could happen is happening right now....
well as that of any other form of government. At any rate, the advantages of democracy as a method of peaceful change and of political education seem to be so great compared with those of any other system that I can have no sympathy with the antidemocratic strain of conservatism. It is ...
“evolution is far from being proven scientifically” (Lord and Marino1993; Cunningham and Wescott2009; People for the American Way Foundation2000) (as Shtulman2006notes, “those who do not endorse the claim that Darwin’s theory of evolution has been well supported by evidence tend to endorse...