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A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse
This paper explains how Mickey Mouse’s physical juvenilization mimics human evolution through the retention of childlike traits.
From: A Rhetoric Argument
This text details how to build persuasive arguments by expanding basic structures with qualifiers, warrants, and counterarguments.
From: Modern American Prose
This paper exposes how a Victorian biography covered up naturalist Louis Agassiz's visceral, non-scientific racial prejudices to mimic scientific objectivity.
From: Modern American Prose
This paper reexamines 19th-century skull data, showing how researchers misused biased statistics to falsely claim women's intellectual inferiority.
From: Modern American Prose
This paper refutes creationist attacks by defining evolution as both a well-supported biological fact and an adapting scientific theory.
The Godfather of Sexist Pseudoscience
This article examines how 19th-century sexist craniometry echoes in modern, pseudoscientific arguments promoting gender-segregated classrooms.
The Median Isn't the Message
This essay recounts how the author used his scientific understanding of statistical variation to find hope and survive an incurable cancer diagnosis.