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Sep 3, 2024 | 
aei.org | Carole Hooven
In this TED Talk, evolutionary biologist and AEI nonresident fellow Carole K. Hooven delves into how testosterone impacts the body and brain, interacting with culture to create differences in human behavior — starting with why boys tend to prefer rougher play than girls. VIDEO
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
ted.com | Carole Hooven
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May 21, 2024 | 
aei.org | Andy Schneider |David Hyman |Thomas Miller |Carole Hooven
On May 30, AEI’s Thomas P. Miller invited David Hyman of Georgetown Law, Peter Nelson from the Center of the American Experiment, and Andy Schneider of Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy to discuss Dr. Hyman’s recent proposals to transform the Medicaid and Medicare programs from defined benefits systems into more cash-based defined contribution health-subsidy systems.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
aei.org | Carole Hooven |Alex Byrne
As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a person’s sex, some medical and camp forms these days ask for “sex assigned at birth” or “assigned sex” (often in addition to gender identity). The American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association endorse this terminology; its use has also exploded in academic articles.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Bernard Lane |Lawrence Krauss |Carole Hooven |Kevin Mims
The dramatic growth of gender medicine clinics around the world would have been unthinkable without the promise of puberty blockers. Children born in the wrong body could simply pause the wrong puberty. And if their self-declared transgender identity proved wrong, it was a simple matter of unpausing natural development. Or so we were told.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Freya India |Lawrence Krauss |Carole Hooven
On TikTok #mentalhealth has over 127 billion views; #trauma alone has almost 30 billion. There's also #postyourpill, urging people to post a photo of their mental health medication every month to "destigmatise" medication. Many of the people creating and consuming this content are young women. But is sharing personal information about their mental health actually helping them get better?
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Lawrence Krauss |Carole Hooven |Kevin Mims |Mathias Sundin
Frans de Waal, one of the world’s preeminent primatologists, passed away on 14 March 2024, at the age of 75. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Psychology and former director of the Living Links Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution at the Emory National Primate Research Center. His passing is a loss not just for his family and friends, but for science and society more broadly.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Carole Hooven |Meghan Murphy |Charles Murray |Aaron Sarin
Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. For years now, sports experts and culture warriors alike have been fiercely contesting the issue of whether transwomen (males who live and identify as women) should be eligible to compete in the female categories of numerous sports—including rugby, swimming, weightlifting, and disc golf. But last August, this debate entered an unexpected domain: the game of chess.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
mindingthecampus.org | Carole Hooven
zero comment Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Free Press on February 7, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. After I stated banal facts about human biology, I found myself caught in a DEI web, without the support to do the job I loved. The only way out was to leave…Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and even a congressional hearing.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
thefp.com | Carole Hooven
My 17 year old daughter and I were having a discussion, actually she was having a particularly bad day (OK, I have to do this every time: An Orthodox Christian priest can be married and have children if they are married before they enter the priesthood), and we were discussing the need for her to fulfill her academic obligations for an online class.
