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Very cool. Sciencescape built a ton of these field visualizations that cover a bunch of topics (genes, cells, diseases, etc). The pay wall issue is a non-starter in my mind: public…

10 points to gryffindor!

Economist Thomas Sowell talks about this at length in his book economic facts as fallacies. He points out its foolish to make policy decisions based on what % of the national incom…

Those are great examples of 'hate' groups that have marginalized themselves just by saying what's on their mind. In the United States where speech is heavily protected by the const…

It might be the most foolish law on the books. Does anyone think that someone who hates a racial, ethnic or religious group will all of a change their mind because its against the …

Censorship is the worst way to fight an idea - It lays credence to that point of view ("why would the government censor it if didn't have some truth to it?") - It undermines the im…