Word: evolutionism
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Kropotkin was an aristocrat who, after being imprisoned for his insurrectionist activities, escaped and fled to England in 1876. He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic. More to the point, he proposed in...
This bright new examining room is as good a place as any to study the anatomy and evolution of attitudes about abortion. About half of American women will face an unplanned pregnancy, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, and at current rates more than one-third will have an abortion...
Maybe this is the healthiest evolution of the jester, to go from safely wrapping your truths in comedy to bravely stating them unadorned. Maybe it's more advanced than just yanking heartstrings, like Robin Williams; or getting increasingly frustrated at the world for not listening to you, like George Carlin...
“We were expecting somewhere between a B-plus and an A-minus, and this was somewhere between an A-minus and an A,” David Pilbeam, the Ford professor of human evolution and an author of the report, said after the meeting.
Undergraduates bemoaning their singledom this Valentine’s Day perhaps should read no further. The following young couples, married or engaged, have taken a romantic plunge that remains foreign to many of their peers. But the experiences that led them there—late-night talks in freshman dormitories...