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Proof political correctness has gotten out of hand Jim Gearhart … – New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio

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Jim Gearhart always used to be sort of amused by political correctness. But things are getting out of hand, he says.

For instance, hes come across a story about opposition to breastfeeding not because of any health concern, not because of any new information about child development but because it could make men feel inadequate.

Im not kidding. Im not kidding, Jim says in the latest edition of the Jim Gearhart podacast, available every Thursday on iTunes, Google Play and the New Jersey 101.5 app. I am a male. Certainly, I think my bona fides are in tact. Know a lot of males. Ive never run across one who had the least bit of nursing envy.

How about the college students who think clapping and whopping should be punished because it excludes deaf people?

What is it were trying to do? WEre trying to stop everything I think. It makes no sense, Jim says.

Thats just part of the latest installment of the Jim Gearhart Podcast, available every week on New Jersey 101.5 and in the New Jersey 101.5 app. You can alsosubscribe with your favorite podcasting app for iPhones, Android devices or your computer:

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Psychology Tells Us There Are 2 Kinds of Politically Correct People – Big Think

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One of the most interesting things about the findings is the personality overlap between PC Authoritarians and right-wing authoritarians. Scott Barry Kaufman,scientific director of the Imagination Institute and a researcher and lecturer in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, explains:

A common finding in the psychological literature is a positive association betweenconservative belief and sensitivity to disgust.In the current study, contamination disgust and the order and traditionalism dimension were all related, suggesting a greater similarity between PC-Authoritarians and Right-Wing authoritarians than either side would probably like to admit!

Also, another interesting similarity is the higher levels of a diagnosed anxiety or mood disorder found among PC-Authoritarians. Both PC-Authoritarians and Right-Wing Authoritarians tend to show a heightened fear response to both social and personal threats, with the strongest fear response being towardsinstances of social difference.

Authoritarianism on both sides of the political spectrum is commonly associated with an outlook that perceives the world to be a threatening place. The researchers suggest this outlook might explain why PC Authoritarians feel a need to protect themselves and others from material they consider offensive. Peterson also thinkshigh levels of compassion can lead toauthoritarian stances.

Compassion is widely understood to be an evolutionary adaptation that facilitates the mother-child bond. For instance, a mother bear feels compassion for her cubs because, for them, the outside world is full of threats from which shes compelled to protect them. This type of compassion serves a clear purpose. But what happens when people with high levels of compassion try to map this trait onto larger society, not just onto family members? Peterson elaborates on this idea in the video below:

Check out some of the questions listed on the survey below:

PC-Egalitarianism

Rate your level of agreement with the following statements:

The quality of social services available to this countrys citizens has remained the same, despite refugees/immigrants entering.

Refugees/Immigrants are as entitled to subsidized housing or subsidized utilities (water, electricity) as this countrys poor citizens are.

The values and beliefs of refugees/immigrants regarding family issues and socializing children are basically quite similar to that of citizens of this country.

2. Biological-Cultural Based Differences (.60) (PC-Egalitarians rank those as rooted in culture)

Rate the degree you think each of the following facts is a biological or cultural phenomenon:

Women are on average more agreeable and nurturing than men.

Men have better spatial ability than women.

On average, individuals who identify as white score higher than those of African ancestry on IQ tests.

3. Societal Injustice (.59)

Rate the degree you think each of the following facts is evidence of an unjust system:

Only 5% of the Fortune 500 companies have women as CEOs.

There have been no Black prime ministers in Canada or the UK, and the United States has only had one Black president.

Only 8% of registered nurses in the United States are male.

PC-Authoritarianism

Do you believe the works in these categories should be screened for offensive, racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory language and/or ideas?

Books

Movies

Art

2. Coddling (.65)

Rate your level of agreement with the following statements:

Universities should be required to provide safe spaces for lectures/events discussing potentially sensitive/unsettling material.

Students should be allowed to request a safe space when material on campus makes them uncomfortable.

Businesses should be required to provide safe spaces for employees.

3. Patriarchy Censorship (.60)

Rate your level of agreement with the following statements:

Feathered headdresses should be banned from music festivals.

White people should not wear their hair in cornrows or afros because it is cultural appropriation.

White musical artists winning awards for reggae, rap, hip-hop, and jazz, is exploitation and appropriation of Black cultural art forms.

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ARK Survival Evolved update launching today with TEK Cloning … – Express.co.uk

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The new ARK Survival Evolved update will arrive on PC at around 7pm BST, however, it should be noted that these kind of patches can be pushed back.

ARK v257 has already seen several delays, mainly down to its impressive scope.

The latest changes include a bunch of new TEK gear to play around with, including the Cloning Chamber.

Other items include a new Megalodon Saddle that applies lasers to your mount, as well as a deadly Tek Grenade and four new creatures which will likely prove a handful to deal with.

One of the biggest tweaks to the game comes in the form of volcanos becoming active, this has led to many tribes having to move away from mountains that are set to go active very soon.

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In the next PC update, the volcano will be receiving an active remodelling which will consume anything in the vicinity, Studio Wildcard warned last month.

A client-side patch pushed out earlier today now includes these borders in your game so you can see the affected area. You are HIGHLY recommended to move out of the area before the v257 patch goes live.

The new game patch will also provide over 20 new music tracks that are both per-biome and situational, an earlier release added additional sounds to several new existing dinos in the game.

The new ARK Survival Evolved update will arrive on PS4 and Xbox One at a later date.

Studio Wildcard have yet to provide a release schedule, however, the end of May seems like the earliest we can expect a deployment.

You can find the new ARK Survival Evolved patch notes for v257 below. It should be noted that more in-depth notes will be released later today.

ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED v257 for PC:

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‘Orphan Black’ stars discuss the ethics of cloning – The Audubon County Advocate Journal

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The cast of BBC America's Orphan Black debate the ethics of human cloning. (May 5)

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How Do You Make a Fox Your Friend? Fast-Forward Evolution – New York Times

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How Do You Make a Fox Your Friend? Fast-Forward Evolution
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It is an exploration of how genes, evolution and then environment shape behavior, and in a way that puts paid simplistic arguments about nature versus nurture. It may serve particularly now as a parable of the lessons that can emerge from ...

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The Evolution of Compelling Storytelling in the Digital Age – Variety

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The Evolution of Compelling Storytelling in the Digital Age
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How has the digital age affected, inspired and changed the way content is delivered and stories are told? At Variety's Entertainment and Technology Summit on May 9 in New York City, such industry leaders as Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, The Daily ...

‘I Love You, Man’: New Study Explores Evolution of the ‘Bromance’ – NBCNews.com

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The authors aimed to explore what the students understood bromances to be, to what extent they valued these relationships and how these friendships were carried out. The men were specifically asked about their willingness to share secrets with their "bromantic" friends, as well as their level of emotional and physical intimacy with them.

All 30 men who were interviewed said they had been in at least one bromance, and they all had similar definitions of a "bromance" -- a relationship with deep emotional disclosure. Some described their bromance as a romance without the physical intimacy, and others described it like a brotherhood. The subjects all agreed this type of relationship had a positive impact on their lives.

"They were clear that a bromance offers a deep sense of unburdened disclosure and emotionality based on trust and love," University of Winchester's Stefan Robinson, the study's lead author, said in a statement.

Robinson and his coauthors, Eric Anderson and Adam White, found the openness to bromances is highly contingent on cultural attitudes toward homosexuality.

"We find these heterosexual men to be less reliant on traditional homosocial boundaries, which have previously limited male same-sex friendships," they wrote in the study's abstract. "Contrary to the repressive homosociality of the 1980s and 1990s, these men embrace a significantly more inclusive, tactile, and emotionally diverse approach to their homosocial relationships."

The study's authors also believe these relationships can lead to a more emotive and healthy masculine culture. "For those dealing with depressive symptoms or social anxieties, bromances may offer a way forward and a coping strategy," Robinson said.

The term "bromance" has recently taken off in pop culture. For example, Barack Obama and Joe Biden

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How do we fix our 21st century economy? Look to Darwin – The Guardian

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Charles Darwin. Political economy would be revived as a rounded subject of inquiry, informed by understanding of the world and history. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

In recent decades the world economy and society have been changing at an unprecedented rate. According to Unesco, the total number of qualified scientists and engineers undertaking research has soared to about 10 million, of which a fifth are in China. Technical inventions have emerged ever faster, providing us with new gadgets and machines, along with new ways of engaging with one another and organising the institutions within which we live.

This has brought us great benefits, but it has also brought dangers and damage: weapons of mass destruction, global warming, the economic bubble and collapse caused by new financial tricks, global tax evasion and tax avoidance, high-tech monopolies, and the diffusion of powers of information and misinformation resulting from new means of communication.

We need to put aside the long-established Newtonian vision of a harmonious economy with negligible innovations

To navigate these new conditions we need to be on the watch for innovations, technological and non-technological, and to analyse their probable consequences. We need to adopt a Darwinian vision of a restless, evolving economy and society that is shaped by competitive selection of successful innovations from the many that fail.

We need to put aside the long-established Newtonian vision of a harmonious economy with negligible innovations in which demand and supply tend to maintain equilibrium in markets and the whole economy. That vision of the capitalist system was plausible when it was expounded, in words, not algebra, by Alfred Marshall more than a hundred years ago. But it does not bear scrutiny today.

Since the crash of 2008, economists have tended tacitly to abandon the Newtonian model and turn to empirical studies. But these have concentrated on economic phenomena that can be measured in statistics among which links may be sought. The many unmeasurable aspects of social and economic phenomena have been largely ignored; and it has been assumed that if an association is discovered it will continue into the future.

The adoption of the Darwinian approach would liberate economists from this myopia. It would mean that the subject of study was social evolution and all its causes, measurable and unmeasurable. Political economy would be revived as a rounded subject of inquiry, informed by understanding of the world and history, as it was for its founder, Adam Smith. It would not promise a distant Utopia, as Newtonian economics and Marxism have done in their different ways. Instead it would invite study of what is happening and the possible responses to it, as a prelude to politico-moral debate by all-comers.

Here are three disparate examples of actual or potential benefits of the approach:

In my book, Public Corruption: The Dark Side of Social Evolution, I asked, Why was corruption cleaned up in northern Europe in the late 18th and 19th centuries?

If rulers gained and held power by corrupt means, for them to abolish corruption would have been political suicide. I found an evolutionary explanation in military-cum-economic competition: when the development of firearms gave advantage to costly, trained, standing armies, states that could raise tax and spend it on their army with least corruption (for example, the highly militarised Prussia as it expanded to become Germany), were at an advantage and expanded or induced their neighbours to clean up in competition with them a process that no longer operates since arms have become cheap relative to national income.

Before the financial crisis of 2008, economic forecasters, using models that projected past statistical relationships into the future, kept predicting that the boom would continue. They failed to see that it was being fed by a growing mountain of lending based on new financial tricks that were unsustainable. Had they been Darwinians, looking out for dangerous innovations and working closely with the bank regulators, the crisis and subsequent depression might never have occurred.

Economists are so steeped in the assumption that human beings are rational meaning they make choices only by pleasure-pain calculus that when confronted by evidence that that is not so, they commonly speak of deviations from rationality. They have ignored that our behaviour is governed by primal instincts as well as reason, and that denial of instincts has blinkered their understanding of incentives to work and other aspects of economic behaviour. A Darwinian would look at behaviour in the round as the product of past genetic and social evolution and current innovations.

In short, the adoption of Darwinism would be a return to reality, and morality.

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Indiana kids defy the odds on their school robotics team – CBS News

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INDIANAPOLIS -- When Pleasant Run Elementary in Indianapolis decided to launch a competitive robotics team last fall, coach Lisa Hopper said she had one goal and one goal only: to avoid humiliation.

"I said, 'I hope we don't embarrass ourselves, and if that happens I'll be a happy coach,'" Hopper said.

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The school is in a high-poverty neighborhood, so the kids don't have many resources. And her 4th grade team didn't know the first thing about robotics.

Nevertheless, the Pleasant Run Pantherbots began studying and then designing a robot to complete the assigned task. In the beginning there were a few successes -- and a lot of failures.

Although the kids say the biggest disappointment had nothing to do with their robot. At one of their first matches, an adult in the crowd heckled a Hispanic teammate, told him to "go back to Mexico."

The Pleasant Run Pantherbots team

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"I don't know why they did that," the boy said.

"That was actually kind of hurtful for them to say that," said a student.

The incident was demoralizing, but far from debilitating. In fact, it only made the kids work harder and stay after school later.

"I was so mad 'cause that happened, but I was actually kind of glad because we beat their butts," one of the kids said.

That's a poetic way of saying they channeled that insult into a victory at the city tournament. They went on to win at state, too. And just last week competed in the world championships in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Pantherbots at the national championship

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They didn't win it all, but they made it to the final round. Hardly the humiliation their coach had feared.

"They started with nothing and created something fantastic," Hopper said.

The kids are all now talking about technical careers. Someday they may build incredible robots. But for now their greatest contribution remains purely human.

"All of our team, everybody in America, it's gotta be mixed. It's a melting pot," one said.

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Red Hook robotics team wins award at world championships – Poughkeepsie Journal

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The Red Hook High School robotics team took home an award after competing at the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics World Championships. Wochit

Red Hook High School seniors Colin Pierce, Daniel Monarchi and Benjamin Kocik, members of the the Varsity Robot Drive Team, stand with robot Talos. The school's robotics team competed at the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics World Championships this year.(Photo: Courtesy photo/Yvonne Pierce)

The Red Hook High School robotics team took home an award after competing at the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics World Championships.

The RoboRaiders were"one of only a handful of teams from New York and among128 teams" fromthe U.S. and 10 foreign countries to compete at the event, which was held inSt. Louis, Missouri in late April, the Red Hook Central School District said in a statement.

The student-run team, which consists of 15 high school students,placed 30th out of 64 teams in their divisionand won a discretionary Judges'Award for outstanding community service.

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"The judges were particularly impressed by this team that interrupted their robot build for over a month in order to improve a motorized transportation solution for a pre-school student at their school with congenital mobility impairment," the district said.

Since September, the students have been working to design, buildand program a robot for this year's Velocity Vortex competition, according to the district. They also performed more than 800 hours of community service to promoteScience, Technology, Engineering,and Math (STEM) education.

"I've only been part of the RoboRaiders for a year, but already I've learned a great deal,"said freshman Alexandra Snyder. "Our team has worked so hard this season, and when we found out that we were going to the world championships, we were so excited. It was almost surreal."

"This is the best robot we have made, compared to the last four years' versions," said senior Ben Kocik. "To see the team advance to this level of competition is huge."

The team is coached by Red Hook High School science teachers Yvonne Pierce and Dwane Decker; IBM employees Stephen Kocik and Susan Zichittella are volunteer mentors.

"In my experience, (the robotics team)provides more exposure to STEM, leadership, teamworkand overall business than most single activities in college, while building a foundation for high school students to do the work themselves,"Zichittella said.

The RoboRaiders, fundedprimarily by local sponsors, is seeking donations to help offset the cost of attending the world championships. Donations can be made at http://www.GoFundMe.com/FTC6567.

Nina Schutzman: nschutzman@poughkeepsiejournal.com, 845-451-4518 Twitter: @pojonschutzman

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Daily Archives: May 6, 2017

Proof political correctness has gotten out of hand Jim Gearhart … – New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio

Psychology Tells Us There Are 2 Kinds of Politically Correct People – Big Think

ARK Survival Evolved update launching today with TEK Cloning … – Express.co.uk

‘Orphan Black’ stars discuss the ethics of cloning – The Audubon County Advocate Journal

How Do You Make a Fox Your Friend? Fast-Forward Evolution – New York Times

The Evolution of Compelling Storytelling in the Digital Age – Variety

‘I Love You, Man’: New Study Explores Evolution of the ‘Bromance’ – NBCNews.com

How do we fix our 21st century economy? Look to Darwin – The Guardian

Indiana kids defy the odds on their school robotics team – CBS News

Red Hook robotics team wins award at world championships – Poughkeepsie Journal

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