Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
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Literature - Anthropology - Psychology - Human Evolution
Author of "He Borara: a Novel about an Anthropologist among the Yąnomamö" - www.dennisjunk.com
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Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
· Nov 20
The Kill Your Brother Game: Playful Dramas & Unintended Consequences of Censorship
In the controversies surrounding campaigns to ban books from school libraries and publishers’ new policy of removing offensive words from classic books, most commenters focus on the nature of the book...
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Luke Glowacki
@lukeglowacki.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Ian McEwan's "Lessons" on How to Make It in Literature as a Rich White Guy — Dennis Junk's Author Site
The author of "Atonement" may have been grandfathered into the literary world, but his continuing success stands as an annoying provocation to intersectionalists. How does he manage it?
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Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
· Nov 20
What Makes Wolf Hall So Great? — Dennis Junk's Author Site
Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” is one of the most successful novels of the 21st century. It’s spawned sequels, stage productions, even a miniseries. But much of the novel’s genius lies in its line-by-lin...
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Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
· Nov 20
"The Dawn of Everything" and the Demarcation between Science and Propaganda — Dennis Junk's Author Site
The overarching problem with "The Dawn of Everything" is that it consists primarily of a long rant against the straw man of lockstep societal progression through rigid stages.
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Dennis Junk
@dennisjunk.bsky.social
· Nov 20
The Kill Your Brother Game: Playful Dramas & Unintended Consequences of Censorship
In the controversies surrounding campaigns to ban books from school libraries and publishers’ new policy of removing offensive words from classic books, most commenters focus on the nature of the book...
www.skeptic.com