If there ever was a single thing that could be used to separate humans from every other life-form, it would be our brain. What is most remarkable about the human brain is its size. Weighing in around an average of 1,300 grams, it eclipses the weight…

Campus Conversation on Values
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April 2, 2012
Samuel Pennypacker (UC Berkeley) on Economic Inequality
No one can deny the problem of economic inequality, and the statistics make the case very clearly. The United States has the highest GINI Index rating of any first-world country. Though seemingly fundamental to many other problems, economic…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” These first words of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence are as powerful today as they were when they were written in 1776. Yet, equality has been a long and…
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