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Life’s Challenges and Why They’re Important

November 2, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In the 1996 when electricity was scarce in northern Ghana and only two years old in my hometown (Bole), lanterns were the major source of […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

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

How To Be Wrong: Changing Our Minds, Pt 2

July 25, 2014by Aaron Gertler 5 Comments

In my last post, I discussed the stories of two people, Alan Chambers and Patty Wetterling, who did one of the hardest things a person can do: They changed their minds […]

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