If it talks like a duck, and has a beak like a duck....is it a duck?

They say if it talks like a duck and walks like a duck, then you have to conclude it's a duck. That's a snide way of saying that yo...

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The mind boggles

Schizophrenia is one of those important human traits that has eluded understanding despite heavy research investment. It is elusively varia...

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Genetic leaf-litter

There are many ways in which everyone is a conceptual prisoner, encaged in culturally based limits. We are born to, and trained in and entr...

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