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AMA | September 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Should We Change the Names of Things?

I think that slave owners at a time when slave ownership was common still are worthy of condemnation. I don't have an informed opinion about how involved James Webb was with those controversies. If you turn out to be terrible people, change the names, right? Caltech's tallest building is the library building right in the center of campus. And it was named after Robert Milliken, a very famous, very accomplished physicist.

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