Why is there no metric system in the United States? Why is it that a country known for its openness to the future, its scientific innovations, and its preference for practicality has not adopted the most practical, scientific, and innovative system of measurement? Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America (Vanderbilt UP, 2025) by Dr. Hector Vera answers these questions by analyzing the political, economic, and international factors that determined the trajectory of the United States as a nation

读经一（现在你们脱离了罪恶，获得了自由，做了天主的仆役。）恭读圣保禄宗徒致罗马人书  6:19-23弟兄们：因为你们本性的软弱，我就按常情来说：你们从前怎样把你们的肢体当作奴隶，献给不洁和不法，行不法的事；现在也要照样把你们的肢体当作奴隶献给正义、行圣善的事。你们做罪恶的奴隶时，不受正义的束缚；当时你们得了什么效果呢？那些事只能使你们现在感到羞耻，因为结局就是死亡。现在你们脱离了罪恶，获得了自由，做了天主的仆役，所得的效果是使你们成圣，结局就是永生。因为罪恶的代价是死亡，天主的恩赐却是在我们的主基督耶稣内的永生。——上主的圣言。答唱咏  咏1:1-4,6答：全心依靠上主的人真是有福。领：不随从恶人的计谋，不与罪人同路，不与讥讽者为伍的人，真是有福。他喜爱上主的诫命，昼夜默想他的法令。答：全心依靠上主的人真是有福。领：他好像种在溪畔的树木，按时结果，枝叶常青，所作所为，顺利成功。答：全心依靠上主的人真是有福。领：恶人并不如此，他们好像被风吹散的糠秕。因为上主赏赐义人，邪恶的人必趋沉沦。答：全心依靠上主的人真是有福。阿肋路亚

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Read the full transcript here. What does rationality mean when life won’t fit a spreadsheet? If models demand one common scale, what happens to values that can’t be compared? Are we optimizing choices, or narrowing them to what’s easy to count? When do toy problems stop teaching us about real ones? Can preferences be “mapped” if the act of asking reshapes them? When is precision a disguise for guesswork? What standard should judge error when the world is fuzzy by design? If we want better

Psychological science researcher Grant Shields explains why stressful situations can cause us to indulge in unhealthy foods.

Let us introduce you to episode 1 of our new series, Darklore, where we explore the creepy, horrific, unsettling darker side of folklore! Please join us as we get lost down twisting paths of lore, myth and macabre tales of dark magic that can never be fully known. In today’s episode we examine dark fairies, from the Unseelie court to fairy abductions and even vampire fairies. You can find Tracy at https://folkloringlife.com/ You can find David at https://www.facebook.com/pr...

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This episode is part of a new series, Jung in the World B-Sides, where we go off-road to explore the rugged psychological terrain of our current culture. This episode is part 2 of our interview with Hilde Lynn Helphenstein. Part 1 "Know thyself"—from Socrates to Shakespeare, this wisdom echoed across centuries. But the digital age is turning it inside out. As online influencers rise to fame, persona is overtaking the self. The obsession with self-representation has eclipsed the drive to be

In Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future (University of Arizona Press, 2025), archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, tracing their journey from ancient times to their contemporary struggles for recognition.Relaying the deep history of the islands of Japan, Watkins tells the archaeological story from the earliest arrivals some 40,000 years ago to 16,000 years ago when

I had a SASS listener reach out to me a few months ago via email. It was a short email, but it sure got my attention. The writer, Diane, told me that she had been listening to SASS for a while, and that she was very appreciative of the show, as she is a survivor of military sexual assault (MSA) from almost 50 years ago. She also told me she had sent me a large envelope of important information about her case…certified, return receipt. That'll peak you're curiosity! I did get a large envelope a few

In 2014, Narendra Modi became India’s Prime Minister, marking the beginning of what many experts and international watchgroups identify as a period of democratic erosion in the country.Since then, a number of other democracies around the world have followed India on this path — including, by many measures, the United States.On this episode, Dan Richards talks with two experts on Indian politics and society about Modi’s rise in India: its causes and effects, how it compares to other instances of

How Reddit Is Being Exploited For AI Training (& Left With Pennies) Logically Answered is centered around explaining the economics of tech and social media. These sectors are generally analyzed through the lenses of finance and economics to determine which industries and companies will thrive and which will fall. In addition to this analysis, the content is often focused on the stories of various famous entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos. Logically Answered also cover the

This week, we descend from the ivory tower onto the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard for a discussion of the historical significance – and contemporary relevance – of the Garland Fund, the million dollar fund at the epicenter of the early Civil Rights movement. We’re thrilled to welcome our colleague John Witt, the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, to join us for a celebration of his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended

What happens when organizations racing to survive suddenly scrub "equity" and "justice" from their websites—without asking the communities they serve? Dr. Philip Alberti, founding director of the AAMC Center for Health Justice, joins host Corey Dion Lewis for a powerful conversation about the real cost of changing language without changing process.In this episode, Philip breaks down why speed matters, how community engagement isn't optional, and what it really means to build health equity

About Maulik Bhansali:Maulik Bhansali is a senior portfolio manager and co-head at Allspring Global Investments. He grew up in New Jersey, started out as an actuary, then got a master’s in quantitative finance at UC Berkeley. For the last couple decades he’s been in the Bay Area managing bond portfolios. Outside of work, he’s raising a kid in a mixed-culture family, figuring out how to keep Gujarati traditions alive.What was most fun about this conversation:The rapid-fire part was great. When I

Are group boundaries solid, impermeable, and red in tooth-and-claw? Is animosity between groups inevitable? In this episode, we talk to Anne Pisor (U Penn) about all things inter-group from an evolutionary perspective, including the forging of relationships across group boundaries as a way to deal with uncertainty and risk, and the circumstances that increase or decrease inter-group antagonism. More about Anne

In this episode I sit down with Kate Epstein, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden, as she details her research on the intersection of defense contracting, intellectual property, and government secrecy in Great Britain and the United States. We talk about her process in researching and writing her latest book Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State and how breaking the law, historically speaking, has been important for

Language skills and self-regulation develop together in early childhood, say Pilar Alamos and Catalina Lecaros. Read the article on BOLD. Stay up to date with all the latest research on child development and learning at boldscience.org. Join the conversation on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram. Subscribe to BOLD’s newsletter.

The so-called “replication crisis” engulfed psychology over the last 10 years, with numerous failures to reproduce canonical studies from the biggest names in the discipline like Dweck’s growth mindset, Baumeister’s willpower as a muscle, and around half of Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. Interrogation of this failure of replicate led to discoveries of p-hacking, publication bias, a huge disconnect between the theories psychologists were supposedly testing and the cute little studies they ...