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![]() The role that racial bias plays in scientific research was a favorite topic of the late Harvard paleontologist and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). If you have any additional information about Gould, Morton, or the Morton skulls, let me know. ![]() ![]() Over the next few weeks, I will post a series of blogs that I hope will spur some discussion and comments. It appears that, at most, both men suffered from common confirmation bias. In my opinion, the historic record does not support claims that Morton’s research was flawed by unconscious racial bias, nor that Gould’s work was flawed by unconscious ideological bias. These mistakes indicate poor scholarship, and not unconscious bias. I have found numerous previously unreported errors in the work of both Morton and Gould. Recently, some critics have proposed that Gould’s research was skewed by his unconscious ideological bias. I found no clear pattern of racial bias, a finding which was confirmed by Jason Lewis in 2011. In 1986, I re-evaluated Morton’s research and re-measured a sample of skulls from Morton’s collection. ![]() Gould identified errors in Morton’s work and claimed they all indicated racial bias. ![]() In The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould argued that the craniological research by 19 th century anatomist Samuel George Morton was skewed by Morton’s unconscious racial bias. ![]() Beauty book robin mckinley5/9/2023 ![]() The lesson of Beauty and the Beast is not one of loss of freedom or being worn down by one's captor it's rather a tale of growth of understanding and maturity and, yes, of Honor and duty - not particularly popular character traits in modern culture! Yet, we keep telling and reimagining these ancient tales. When dealing with ancient fairy tales, I believe this is a mistake. Several reviewers mention Stockholm syndrome. McKinley is adept at creating characters - and at describing and bringing to life mundane family life and a magical world. Although financial misfortune brings them down in the world, this marvelously-portrayed group of people become an emotionally and financially supportive unit - no misfits here. We spend a good portion of the book in this very real and very down-to-earth family. Beauty may not be as attractive as her sisters, and she is more interested in books, but her role in a growing family is complete and necessary. This is one of my favorite aspects of McKinley's retelling. She is a vital part of a caring family, not simply the adored daughter of an old man. Unlike in the Disney (and many other) versions, Beauty is not really an outsider or a misfit. ![]() Robin McKinley creates a wonderful re-interpretation of the classic story here. So, she did have another name! And what better name than Honor. ![]() Lucy in the Sky by Paige Toon5/9/2023 ![]() Nathan is a happy-go-lucky surfer boy, with no prospects, no place to live, an almost-girlfriend in tow. So why, at the wedding in Sydney of her best friend Molly, does she have niggling doubts, and find herself attracted to Molly's brother-in-law Nathan? The sooner she gets back to her regular life in London, the flat she shares with James, her job in PR, the better. James is a lawyer, persuasive and gorgeous and Lucy adores him. She finally calls him and he reassures her: it was only his mates playing a silly joke. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James. ![]() Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Escape to the summer and feel the warmth of Paige Toon's storytelling ![]() Bruce lee real fighting5/9/2023 ![]() Norris is a world champion in karate, while Lee is an expert in kung fu who trained in Wing Chun and formed his own style, Jeet Kune Do, in the 1960s. Fortunately for Bruce Lee fans, according to ScreenRant, the entire 40 minutes that Lee shot for Game of Death in 1972 are now available to watch without the lame bookends. Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris are both icons in the martial arts world but are completely different in terms of their fighting styles. ![]() It’s a classic showdown, with the 5’8” star proving to his 7’2” opponent that the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Bruce Lee uses a bo staff against Hans guards in Enter the Dragons cave fight, disarming a bo staff from one guard and using it to hold off a group of opponents. ![]() While the entire pagoda fight is great, the highlight of the movie is Lee’s duel with Hakim, a hulking giant of a martial arts star played to perfection by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. ![]() Here he dons the famous yellow tracksuit that would later inspire the wardrobe in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Regardless of the questionable ethics involved in the film’s completion, the scenes that Lee did film are fantastic and some of the most iconic in his career. ![]() Whether it was anyone’s right to finish Lee’s movie without him is one thing, but including actual footage from Lee’s funeral is just plain old bad taste. It’s the result of a low-budget cobbling together of a 1972 film that Lee left unfinished when he died, and a wrap-around story featuring not-so-convincing stand-ins for the deceased star. ![]() Plainsong by kent haruf review5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Show me katharine hepburn5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() King Philip II of France, the son and successor of Louis VII of France, Eleanor's ex-husband, is a guest. Henry wants his youngest son, the future King John, to inherit his throne, while his estranged and imprisoned wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, temporarily released from prison in England for the holidays, favours their eldest surviving son, the future King Richard I. The Lion in Winter is set during Christmas 1183, at King Henry II's château and primary residence in Chinon, Touraine, in the medieval Angevin Empire. A television remake of the film was made in 2003. The film was a commercial success and won three Academy Awards, including Hepburn's historic tie with Barbra Streisand for Best Actress, making Hepburn the first three-time winner in the category. Nusbaum, and Martin Poll and starred Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, John Castle, Anthony Hopkins (in his first major film role), Jane Merrow, Timothy Dalton (in his film debut) and Nigel Terry. The film was directed by Anthony Harvey written by James Goldman (based on his own play of the same name) produced by Joseph E. The Lion in Winter is a 1968 historical drama film set at Christmas 1183 it centres on political and personal turmoil among the royal family of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their three surviving sons, and the French king. ![]() ![]() ![]() He currently has a weekly strip cartoon called 'Payne's Grey' in the New Statesman.Ĭhris has been a published author since 2000. Chris worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years, working mainly for magazines & newspapers (these include The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal) before becoming a writer. ![]() He now lives in Cambridge with his wife and son where he writes, draws, paints, dreams and doodles (not necessarily in that order). He spent his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before moving to Manchester, London and then Norfolk. He decided then “that my ambition was to write and illustrate my own book”. He was an avid reader of American comics as a child, and when he was eight or nine, and living in Gibraltar, he won a prize in a newspaper story-writing competition. His father was in the army and so he moved around a lot as a child and lived in Wales. ![]() ![]() His father’s prediction that “this will never last” and disowning him after Grohl dropped out of high school to pursue music? By the end, “We had struggled our entire lives to connect, but even in his absence I was shaped by his presence, for better or worse. I stopped and realized that I had vividly imagined this exact moment thirty years before as a 13-year-old boy, like a premonition, and now I was actually fucking living it! Crazy as it may seem, my teenage rock and roll dream had come true.” And in 2011, she did! “I looked down and saw Sandi standing there … in the exact same spot where she had been standing in the dream I had the night she broke my heart. Sandi, the woman whom he loved yet broke up with him in 1982? He dreamed that one day she would see him on stage in front of “thousands of screaming fans”. ![]() ![]() Dave Grohl wants you to know that all of his dreams have come true. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, it's well written and informative for an outsider. At moments for me it felt longer than necessary. This is not an easy read, sometimes the book takes the shape of a non-fictional essay about church politics in the context of a university campus. It shows what they have in common and mostly what they disagree with and how their own religions' teaching of loving each other usually develops into bigotry and intolerance. The story gives an interesting insight into the core of beliefs of the different Christian churches such as Roman Catholic, Anglican, Evangelical, among others. The other is the personal struggle of Lydia who wants to be accepted as both a Christian and a lesbian by her church and her family and friends. One is the relationship - often more political than religious - between different Christian churches in university life. ![]() As a practising Christian, can she still feel welcome in her church if she comes out as a lesbian? ![]() Lydia is as an Evangelical Christian struggling with her own sexuality. 'Speak its name' follow a couple of years in the campus life of Lydia, an English undergraduate student at the fictional University of Stancester in England. ![]() |