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Author Archives: Leo Kozachkov

Lifeguard Lollygagging Pt 1: The Brain as Mind

November 6, 2015by Leo Kozachkov 1 Comment

I’ve been working as a lifeguard every summer for the last five summers. It gives me a lot of idle time to think about things. It also gives the sun […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Science & Nature

Lessons and Themes from Common Ground 2015

October 23, 2015by Leo Kozachkov Leave a comment

The collective IQ at Common Ground 2015 is higher than average—and the attendants seem to know it. Bouncing off the walls of College Ave’s spacious Student Center, one hears conversations […]

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Blog News & Events, Religion & Secularism

It’s Time to Revamp K-12 Education with Vouchers

August 13, 2015by Leo Kozachkov Leave a comment

Public education is important—this much is beyond dispute. But besides that one understatement, everything else is fair game. As a core cog in American life, as a political and ideological […]

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Politics & Culture

The Importance of Liberal Arts Literacy: One STEM Major’s Perspective

June 5, 2015by Leo Kozachkov 2 Comments

A few posts ago, I argued for the importance of widespread scientific literacy. I claimed that “scientific literacy—in conjunction with political, mathematical, and other literacies—is a civic responsibility”. For symmetry’s […]

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Politics & Culture

On Babies and Bathwater; Or, Reflections on Broadening My Perspective

April 27, 2015by Leo Kozachkov 1 Comment

The saying goes: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Rather than a plea to protect infants, the idiom is understood to mean: “don’t reject the essential along with […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Politics & Culture

On Mathematical Intelligence and How It Grows

February 10, 2015by Leo Kozachkov 5 Comments

TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it’s like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and […]

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Science & Nature

Reason vs Religion at Rutgers: Julien Musolino Debates Mark Baker

November 24, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 1 Comment

I don’t go to public debates nearly as much as I should. This is just one of the many things I learned from attending the The Veritas Forum last night, […]

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Religion & Secularism

Did Interstellar Live Up to its Hard Sci-Fi Hype? Review of Nolan’s Space Opera

November 11, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 5 Comments

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR. I just got back from watching Christopher Nolan’s new movie Interstellar in glorious, eye-popping IMAX. I’m really torn right now. I’ve written and […]

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Book & Movie Reviews, Science & Nature

The Importance of Hard Science Fiction

October 14, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 12 Comments

For the last eighty or so years, science fiction writers have been the doormen to a strange and exciting universe replete with extra dimensions, elementary particles, time-travel, intergalactic wars, speculative […]

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Art & Literature, Science & Nature

The Soul Fallacy: An Interview w Psychology Prof Julien Musolino

August 26, 2014by Leo Kozachkov 5 Comments

It’s not everyday you get to meet someone like Rutgers professor Julien Musolino. In our age of specialization, Julien is part of a small (but growing!) cadre of thinkers whose […]

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Book & Movie Reviews, Religion & Secularism, Science & Nature

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