Matt Ridley

RUNNING HEAD: NATURE VS. NURTURE Nature vs. Nurture Chapter Three the convenient jingle by Matt Ridley Lindsey Littlejohn Western Carolina University This paper talks about how a geographer named Francis Galton created a debate about nature vs. nurture and how for example twins no matter the gender, will do exactly the same thing as each other and he debated whether it was nature or nurture. This debate between nature and nurture has been the talk for many decades. Galton believed in…

Corporate involvement in scientific research have created a problematic dynamic between financial interests and the goals of sciences and its supposed norms. Robert Merton said that “the goal of science is to expand the range of our knowledge by empirical confirmation and logically consistent statements of regularities,” and made a point to identify certain norms that should not be breeched to ensure that science would not fall ill to the maladies that plague other institutions. These included:…

at what he did. Was Charles born a failure? Or was it because he was surrounded by failure all his life? The answer is simple: both. Charles was born with half the DNA of his father, but his genes have adapted to his surrounding environment, like Ridley stated, “nature via nurture” (2010). If Charles was surrounded by success and a more supportive family like the author Wes Moore was, he could have become successful. Maybe the day in the park would have turned out differently. Instead, Charles’s…

Temperatures in 2015 were higher than have ever been recorded. Carbon Dioxide emissions, fossil fuels burning, and deforestation have caused 2015 to be the hottest year ever recorded. The rise in heat has caused water in third world countries to become scarce and wars to occur. Global warming is a colossal issue that affects the environment, the world, and mankind, and if it is not stopped soon, the results on the Earth could be disastrous. Global Warming has put an enormous “carbon…

The language (sound and body) is also associated with the films binarism that seeks to demonize the Somalians. First of all, you can tell that most of the American soldiers have years of training and experience making them effective fighters, but the Somali militia forces are shown as a barley functionable fighting force. In many of the fight scenes, the militia not only can’t aim, but they are super disorganized in how they fight. They rarely even utilize guerrilla tactics when fighting and…

are often told about all the negative effects of Climate Change and rarely find ourselves discussing the positives. Multiple researchers around the world are in a global debate regarding the pros and cons of it. According to scientist/journalist Matt Ridley (and WHO) Climate Change has brought about an increase in the effects of natural disasters. Recent studies have shown that weather related…