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April 2024: Futility v. Striving
April 2024: Futility v. Striving
The boundary between the supernatural and the natural was a major point of contention in the Reformations that transformed Europe in the…
Aletheia Donald
Apr 28
August 2022: Surveillance, Socialism and Urban Restructuring
August 2022: Surveillance, Socialism and Urban Restructuring
In the August issue, Zephyr Teachout writes that “corporations’ use of surveillance software increased by 50 percent in 2020 (the first…
Aletheia Donald
Oct 15, 2022
April 2022: Rationality, Regicide and the Ramayana
April 2022: Rationality, Regicide and the Ramayana
In a laboratory experiment at the Max Planck Research Station in Teneriffe, both macaws and parrots learned to take a nonedible token…
Aletheia Donald
Jun 12, 2022
February 2022: Satmars, Soil Erosion and the Subjectivity of Aesthetics
February 2022: Satmars, Soil Erosion and the Subjectivity of Aesthetics
The first city known to have had a municipal sewage system was Knossos, on the island of Crete, 4,000 years ago.
Aletheia Donald
Mar 27, 2022
July 2021: Nazis, Nobles and Neutrons
July 2021: Nazis, Nobles and Neutrons
The science of creaturely navigation is a contested research area, but it is now widely thought that many animals have what is called a…
Aletheia Donald
Aug 21, 2021
March 2021: Hierarchy, Stoicism and the American Revolution
March 2021: Hierarchy, Stoicism and the American Revolution
The word hierarchy was invented around the year 500 by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his book The Celestial Hierarchy, to count and…
Aletheia Donald
Apr 11, 2021
February 2021: Marcus Garvey, Medicine’s Male Bias, and Making Mistakes
February 2021: Marcus Garvey, Medicine’s Male Bias, and Making Mistakes
Alexandra Lahav’s research reveals that 27 percent of the large-scale consolidated mass tort lawsuits pending in the federal courts in…
Aletheia Donald
Mar 28, 2021
December 2020: Algae power, musicology and Scalia’s legacy
December 2020: Algae power, musicology and Scalia’s legacy
Apparently Wyoming is the “wealth-friendliest” state in the USA, through a combination of loose residency requirements and low-to-no taxes…
Aletheia Donald
Jan 10, 2021
December 2018 Itemized (Part I): Bees, Hell and Personality Tests
December 2018 Itemized (Part I): Bees, Hell and Personality Tests
We humans have a way of turning our wildest imaginations into unquestionable beliefs, the foundations on which we construct some of our…
Aletheia Donald
Jan 14, 2019
November 2018 Itemized: Mosquitoes, Modernity and MLK
November 2018 Itemized: Mosquitoes, Modernity and MLK
Move over, peppered moth. My new favorite example of human-driven natural selection in animals is the London Underground mosquito, also…
Aletheia Donald
Dec 15, 2018
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