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    Politics "WOKE" America

    jcpa.org/article/the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-lifting-the-taboo/ Quick google for wikipedia. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Medieval_Arab_attitudes_to_Black_people
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    Politics "WOKE" America

    C-SPAN hasn't uploaded the full speeches from 1994, unlike Hillary saying superpredators need to be brought to heel. Note that the crack cocaine disparity goes back to the Reagan era Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Also in Biden's defence the congressional black caucus backed the 1994 bill because...
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    Nature How to help the planet and create a better world?

    Note that Volkswagen added a defeat device to their diesel cars to bypass emissions standards by letting users turn off the Adblue(urea) diesel exhaust filter. Some environmental regulations rely on the users to be informed of the purpose and agree to choose to follow the intent of the law...
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    Is race just a social construct?

    The U.S. government estimates that Russia has spent $300 million trying to influence politics in other countries. There are no specifics, but it seems that anything that advances the potential interests of Russia is funded, and yes that probably includes far-right groups.
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    Is race just a social construct?

    Jerry Coyne responded to Reich's piece, and its response article in the nytimes. whyevolutionistrue.com/2018/04/01/geneticist-david-reich-responds-to-critics-of-his-views-on-race/ Reich's six points
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    Politics "WOKE" America

    She is a Somali, born in Mogadishu to a father who was a head propagandist in the US backed Barre regime.
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    The Gay Marriage Controversy

    [/FONT][/COLOR] Study? Yes pleiotropy makes genetic engineering problematic.
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    How do you feel about your country's education system ?

    From a 2009 paper Low spending on education but good results About juku classes preschool
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    How do you feel about your country's education system ?

    Look at Japan's performance in OECD PISA. Their results are leading in Mathematics and Science, and above the OECD average in Reading in 2018. The results for PISA in the first one (2000) were underwhelming for Japan and led to commentary that the country had little free thought and complex...
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    The genetic history of the Southern Arc-Lazaridis et al

    Look at that guy's art, he has put a Sub-Saharan African in the ancient Chinese Xianrendong Cave (20,000 BP). I knew they tried to claim Ancient Egypt, the Minoan culture, all of Ancient Greece, Persia, various European lords, mesoamerican civilization, etc. Good thing on rejecting...
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    Climate change Is it time for Americans to stop using their air conditioners?

    There is a bunch of nuclear, solar and wind in Europe. You can see a live map. Poland is mostly coal. app.electricitymaps.com The US President Trump warned Germany in 2018 that their reliance on Russian gas from Gazprom would make them dependent on Russia and they laughed at him at the time...
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    Genetics and the so-called monkey pox

    The R number of monkeypox has been estimated widely. Some people say 1.2. The WHO gives an "R number of about 2.13 based on data collected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 1984". 3rd generation smallpox vaccine is effective. The case numbers are trending down in some...
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    What do you think of homosexuality (and gay marriage) ?

    On the question of heritability there are polygenic loci inferred from genome wide association studies. The 23andme research study and UK Biobank one have around 400,000 subjects. The genes may be cracked with higher-power studies with larger population samples...
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    Humankind: a civilization & city builder game

    Look at 0ad, a free game based on age of empires 2. 0 A.D. is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game
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    Climate change Is it time for Americans to stop using their air conditioners?

    Spain has restricted cooling to 27 C and heating to 19 C. Climate change has created drought, with river levels falling. There is an issue with low river flows where power plants need to turn down to avoid heat pollution creating a fish kill in the cooling water outlets.
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    Politics "WOKE" America

    The Sri Lankan government created a food crisis by restricting fertiliser imports. If the Dutch government cared about farmers they would put more money in R&D. Dutch tomato greenhouses are world-leading in terms of efficiency - amazing that the Netherlands exports food with such little land.
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    Politics "WOKE" America

    I suspect DeSantis will run and he's more likely to succeed than Trump. He's smarter at politics. DeSantis from what I read is like Trump lite - culture war issues in Florida, like taking out CRT from school textbooks.
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    GEDMatch Gedmatch kit number

    Some is uploaded to gigadb, some to the European Nucleotide Archive google.com/search?q=site:eupedia.com+gigadb.org google.com/search?q=site:eupedia.com+ebi.ak.uk/ena You can browse some academic websites, eg David Reich's lab reich.hms.harvard.edu/datasets
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