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“This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant….

“This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant. Every one of them.” via Memex And some of them have started pointing this out – while politicians on both side of the Atlantic trade in anti-immigrant rhetoric. Continues here. My mother was an immigrant, the vast majority of boysContinue reading ““This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant….”

The Monday Morning Quote #399

“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace?  In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don’t do it. It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or writeContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #399”

Trump is exploiting the faulty mechanisms in people’s minds…

Quote of the day: “Every which way, Trump is exploiting the faulty mechanisms in people’s minds. It feels like we are in a world where, to me, some meaningful part of the electorate is beyond reasoning with – beyond fact, anti-science. All the mental faculties that lead to human progress, they are opposed to.” MichaelContinue reading “Trump is exploiting the faulty mechanisms in people’s minds…”