'It's No to Muy Wa'

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I think it's very hard to start a new university at all. And honestly, i think the future of these kinds of universities is going to be on line mostly. I don't doubt that they can raise the money, but i know that they'll have the steam to do it. You can be a founding you can give 500 grand to support ten faculty fellows and give 400 grand, oh, eight. This is just how much it's gong to cost. Yo. Three million dollars per named chaira 25 hundred million dollars for land in austin, for the for the campus. That's like their patrion. Ye? They're explicitly trying to not be on line.

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and evolutionary psychologists over whether the mind is modular -- composed of discrete systems responsible for vision, reasoning, cheater detection, sexual jealousy, and so on. David and Tamler (mostly David) describe the history of the debate, then dive into a recent paper (Pietraszewski & Wertz, 2021) arguing that virtually all the disagreement is the product of a conceptual and methodological confusion â€“ that the two sides are operating with different levels of analysis and talking past each other as a result.

Plus, we REALLY tried not to talk about the University of Austin thing for the whole opening segment. We had another topic lined up and everything. It just didnâ€™t work out. Cicero would understand. Bari Weiss stans might wanna skip to the main segment.