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It's me, doing a blog interview on how I got into science, how I got into blogging, and the future of science outreach.
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Negative powers of ten, xkcd style.
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"Our findings don't suggest that individuals who avoid talking about race are racists," Apfelbaum explained. "On the contrary, most are well-intentioned people who earnestly believe that colorblindness is the culturally sensitive way to interact. But, as we've shown, bending over backward to avoid even mentioning race sometimes creates more interpersonal problems than it solves."
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The Scientific, Political, Social, and Pedagogical Context for the claim that "Race does not exist."
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The post from yesterday was inspired by the news coverage surrounding the paper describing gene expression differences