![]() ![]() Paul, Minnesota, remeasured some of the skulls in Morton’s collection, checked some of his calculations, and reported in Current Anthropology that Morton had actually been largely accurate in both respects. ![]() Several years after its publication, John Michael, an undergraduate at Macalester College in St. Gould’s attack on Morton-which he expanded into a broad critique of racist anthropology in his 1981 book, The Mismeasure of Man -itself became dogma, widely read and assigned to students as an incisive study of scientific bias. But this year, a team of scientists turned the tables on Gould, showing that the true errors and bias on display were his own. In every case, Gould said, Morton’s errors had favored his bias, boosting whites or cheating blacks. Gould accused Morton of mismeasuring craniums, botching his math, and selectively excluding or weighting evidence. ![]() Morton’s measurements of skull size had been used to justify the claim that Caucasians have larger skulls and are therefore more intelligent than other races, an inference discredited by modern science. "No scientific falsehood is more difficult to expunge than textbook dogma endlessly repeated in tabular epitome without the original data.” With those fateful words, published in Science in 1978, the paleontologist and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould launched a famous assault on Samuel Morton, a 19th-century physical anthropologist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The campaign said it has already coordinated over 185 interviews in a wide variety of national and local media, in both English and Spanish, a broad-spectrum multiplatform approach that it hopes will help the message break through in a fractured media landscape. ![]() “Our president has assembled a group that includes some truly promising up-and-coming leaders from across the country.” Chris Coons, D-Del., a campaign co-chair who was one of several surrogates who made themselves available to cable news bookers and other journalists while Biden was overseas this month. “President Biden, as he has proven this week, is very busy being president,” said Sen. William McKinley deployed 1,400 when he campaigned for the White House in 1896, while he mostly greeted supporters from the front porch of his home in Ohio.īut Biden’s nascent re-election campaign has invested early - before it even has a headquarters and ahead of what former President Barack Obama did in 2012 - in what veteran operatives say is an unusually robust operation to tap the star power of the Democratic Party, most of which is outside the White House. ![]() To win re-election, President Joe Biden plans to tap an expansive stable of friends and allies to go where he can’t, say what he won’t and be what he’ll never be.Ĭampaign surrogates are nothing new. ![]() And he was never the world’s most electric campaigner to begin with. ![]() ![]() When a stranger offers her a job at a ranch, it feels like salvation, but it could also mean her death if his motives aren’t pure. ![]() Her success is a lie, and her debt is coming to collect her - unless someone else gets there first. 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Can you introduce yourself in a few words? ![]() ![]() When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this. Along with thousands of other "Okies", they sought jobs, land, dignity & a future. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, & in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. The novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, & changes in financial & agricultural industries. Perhaps the most American of American classics. John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family & a nation in search of work & human dignity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon other animals start disappearing.and Megan and Brigit have their hands and paws full of suspects. Is the new custodian, a gentle soul who happens to be an ex-convict, to blame? Or is something far more sinister afoot? AND ON THE HUNT The birds are worth thousands of dollars, and the list of people on the premises who might have stolen them is long. What better day for Megan to take Brigit to the Fort Worth Zoo, where they can let loose and witness the law and order of nature unfold? But what begins as a fun field trip turns serious when a pair of rare hyacinth macaws named Fabiana and Fernando goes missing. AT THE ZOO The weather is beautiful, work is slow, and her canine colleague could use a walk. Police officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner in crime, Brigit, are on all fours as they try to solve their latest Lone Star mystery. ![]() ![]() Burton not only humanizes the deleterious impact of mass incarceration, it also points the way to the kind of structural and policy changes that will offer formerly incarcerated people the possibility of a life of meaning and dignity. Her organization, A New Way of Life, operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children-setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. ![]() She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. Burton’s former self, and takes the reader’s on a journey through Susan’s life full of hardships from growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood, to her introduction to crack cocaine. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. The program will be followed by a book signing with Susan Burton. 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