OK, I read the whole article and never did it explain what is either racist or discriminatory about "monkeypox." Discriminatory would imply that one group is being treated differently because of race, sex, religion, etc.; it's very possible that some people are getting better medical treatment than others because of poverty or other factors, but it's bizarre to claim that has anything to do with the name monkeypox or that the situation would improve by calling it "mpox."
I would guess that the sort of parents who let tots watch violent TV are lousy parents in a number of other respects, which would have a much bigger cumulative effect on school performance than the viewing of violent TV alone.
The disproportionate representation of Asians at highly selective colleges is indicative that merit (judged by demonstrated academic performance) is distributed in a racially uneven way, isn't it? Or do you think there is some kind of discrimination in favor of Asians (and against other groups) at work? In actual fact, discrimination appears to be AGAINST Asians; otherwise their numbers would be even greater.
This is certainly not to imply that there is anything inherently superior about people of Asian descent; I mean that the culture tends to strongly support hard work, education, and personal responsibility, all traits that lead to academic success.
I had to install an app called ArriveCAN to enter Canada; although it's probably innocent compared to Qatar's, I unintalled it upon returning to the US.
That would be exporting New York's problem to other cities, such as Philadelphia where the same sort of scumbags would buy them. If these were illegal guns, would you support sending them to other states?
We watch one or the other of these whenever my (now adult) children are home for Christmas. It's family tradition going back to their childhood, and nobody wants to break it.
Maybe they are not marginalized from political power in the civic realm, but they are certainly considered outliers in the academic world (aside from a few evangelical colleges).
I agree about the spiritual part. Many people get wisdom, inspiration, etc. from the Bible. But people who use the Genesis timeline to calculate the age, composition, and shape of the earth, or the emergence of living species, are considered fringe in the U.S. In New Zealand, similar traditions coming from the Maori are considered unassailable dogma, and skeptics are regarded as heretics to be condemned.
If the indigenous voices happened to be correct in this case, it was coincidence. Fifteen thousand years is much too long a time span for oral traditions to carry any factual historical information.
Just wow. I'm embarrassed for New Zealand. An American analogy would be if the National Academy of Science were taken over by Christian creationists, and the teaching of evolution were condemned as "hurtful" etc.
"Framing Jews’ achievement as a cultural trait erroneously spreads the belief that educational success comes from adopting the “right” cultural values. But Horwitz argues that Jews value education because 'it has worked for them throughout history, not because they are genetically or culturally predisposed to it.' ”
But isn't valuing education a cultural trait? It's interesting that she takes pains to claim it's not, perhaps because she's afraid of stepping into the minefield of explaining differences in achievement among other groups.
Unless I'm missing something, this would have no impact on engineers and other professional employees who are "exempt" from overtime. My nominal 40-hour work week meant nothing if there was a crisis or schedule slip that required putting in many extra hours.
The claim that this law would force companies to be more efficient by having fewer meetings assumes management are rational.
Also, it's weird that it only applied to companies with >=500 employees; wouldn't this be a strong incentive for smaller companies to resist hiring the 500th employee?
"I strongly believe diversity is an equal, if not more important, driver of innovation than any tech." And that is why China will continue to eat our lunch economically.
How does the funding or political position of the Review invalidate the story told here? If you acknowlege that the facts are as laid out, is your objection that you disagree with who the good guys and bad guys are? Or do you think embarassing facts about the Stanford prof should have been suppressed?
That really does appear to be the main goal in leftist institutions (which pretty much includes every university) today--equality above all. Even if it requires pushing people down to the same low level to accomplish it.
Try mindful meditation. It doesn't work for everyone, but it helped me with a lot of the same issues. There are courses available at many colleges and online; I used palousemindfulness.com, which is free.
I'm still using my SE that I got in 2016, and I hope it never breaks because it is the ideal size for my needs. It fits in either my shirt or jeans front pocket, and since I don't carry a purse, I don't know where I would put a bigger one. It does everything I need. Why would I want to watch movies on a cell phone, even if it's the size of an iPad?