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Science’s Biggest Blunder

Posted October 4th, 2016 at 12:32 pm (UTC-5)
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Race is perhaps the worst idea ever to come out of science….Up for grabs was whether modern non-Africans stemmed from one or more migrations out of Africa. The newest data suggests there was a single journey — between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago, a single population of humans left Africa and went on to settle…everywhere […]

At Sandra Bland’s Funeral, Celebration and Defiance

Posted July 27th, 2015 at 9:05 am (UTC-5)
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Funerals are often predictably somber — a cloistering and culminating of grief and pain. Not Sandra Bland’s funeral…. Bland was the 28-year-old Illinois woman arrested after a traffic stop in Texas who died in a county jail.