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William Brooks: From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education – The Epoch Times

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Parts 1 and 2 of this series can be read hereand here.

Over the 19th century, Enlightenment rationalism gradually diminished the influence of the Christian worldview.

Separation of church and state led naturally to the development of public schools and the disconnection of education from traditional religious influence. This was especially the case in some of the most prestigious districts on the continent.

In North America, two distinct educational movements vied for control of the newly developing public school systems. The first was a classical liberal model that was a secularized version of the Western Christian paideia. The second was a progressive model guided mainly by the ideas of 19th-century Utopian socialism and 20th-century Marxism.

In the wake of declining Christian influence, classical scholars argued that students should still have access to the Western canon. This would include the study of languages and literature, science and mathematics, history, the arts, and foreign languages.

This mostly secular vision became commonly known as liberal education. It was intended to bypass denominational conflicts and keep the focus on traditional Western literary and scientific achievement.

Classical liberal teachers sought to pass on knowledge and skills, cultivate the imagination, and develop the capacity for independent thought. Their mission was to prepare young people for mature participation in the civic, cultural, and business affairs of Western democratic societies.

Among the faithful, it was generally thought that moral and religious instruction would continue outside of public education systemsin churches, Sunday schools, and family homes.

Everyone recognized that college-bound students required academic preparation, but classical liberal educators believed that all children should still have instruction in the organizing principles of their society and the varieties of human experience.

Over the final century of Christian cultural hegemony, classical scholars sought to retain schools that would develop the capacity to reason and enrich the lives of young citizens.

But the liberal model wasnt destined to prevail.

In Battle for the American Mind, Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin contend that early in the 20th century, Western progressives launched a clandestine war against Western civilization.

The authors point to a literal heist of public school systems. They write, While we were busy staving off Marxist economics and making the world safe for democracy, underneath our noses the Progressives slowly and quietly removed our key ingredientthe Western Christian Paideiaand replaced it with a Paideia of their own.

Marxist intellectuals wrote about the heroic advances of progressive education and how the movement was overcoming outdated teaching practices.Progressives co-opted the very idea of democracy and contended that teachers should help bridge the gap between the school and society. The word democratic became a Marxist synonym for revolutionary.

As early as the mid-19th century, the classic British grammar school model, adopted in early colonial North America, gave way to the educational ideas of European social reformers such as Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Froebel. This changed our perception of the schools purpose, gradually substituting the concentration on literacy and the acquisition of knowledge with active teaching methods and the interests of the child.

Pedagogical experts posed as champions of working-class children. They proposed a differentiated curriculum that would offer a less rigorous and more pragmatic education to children of poorer parents, immigrants, and racial minorities whom they considered less capable of academic achievement.

Progressive policies were attractively packaged in democratic rhetoric. Educators claimed to be liberating young minds from boring traditional instruction and rote learning. Teach the child, not the subject became the mantra for student-centered schools.

But it soon became clear that the progressive mission was less about teaching and more about leading students toward a hypercritical view of Western civilization.On Jan. 15, 1987, former Democrat Party presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson and some 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford Universitys grand main entrance, chanting Hey hey, ho ho, Western civ has got to go.

By the mid-20th century, several classical liberal scholars pushed back. Progressives came under a counterattack from a number of academic quarters. Some argued that the progressive vision was not only profoundly undemocratic, but also harmful to students and the society in which they lived.

In 1953, Canadian historian Hilda Neatby published So Little for the Mind, a scathing account of progressive reforms undertaken in Canadian public school systems. The respected University of Saskatchewan scholar argues that progressive teaching methods were anti-intellectual, anti-cultural, and amoral. Neatby asserts that there is no attempt to exercise, train, and discipline the mind.

In 1961, Columbia University history professor Lawrence A. Cremin wrote a similar critique titled The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 18761957. Cremin also describes an anti-intellectual emphasis on non-academic subjects and the questionable teaching methods that had become hallmarks of the progressive movement.

Such books by serious thinkers raised important concerns about the purpose and quality of progressive schooling. Some parents and citizens began to resist and look for private alternatives.

From where I write in Nova Scotia, the 1958 founders of the independent Halifax Grammar School are said to have been inspired by Neatbys case against public progressive education.

Nevertheless, through the persistence of a solidly entrenched educational bureaucracy, most schools on the North American continent eventually returned to progressive policies and practices.

From the dawn of the Age of Aquarius in the 1960s, the odds were heavily stacked against any movement dedicated to the restoration of a classical liberal paideia.

Throughout the 20th century in the United States and Canada, state, provincial, and local governments almost entirely took over responsibility for the delivery of education.

Eventually, all forms of elementary and high school educationCatholic, Protestant, Jewish, public, and privatecame under the influence of the progressive model.

Hegseth and Goodwin assert that, as early as the 1920s and 1930s, government accreditation requirements were introduced to validate school diplomas and control transition to postsecondary studies.

Teachers were certified through education colleges that were designed by progressives. Graduation requirements and diplomas were authorized by states, under progressive education departments. Textbook authors, descended from this professional class of teachers, were trained in the progressive education colleges, Hegseth and Goodwin write.

Progressive schools were fully equipped to separate impressionable young people from the foundational principles of Judeo-Christian, democratic-capitalist, Western culture. Compulsory public education and progressive policy experts gradually replaced the cultural influence of churches, parents, local communities, and classical scholars.

The North American business community paid little attention to what was going on in education. They were focused on free market transactions and wealth production, not cultural transformation.

With a 20th-century public lulled into complacency by advancing technology, economic prosperity, and Utopian visions, neither religious educators nor classical liberal scholars had the capacity to resist what came next.

On top of the havoc wrought by increasingly radical school reforms in the 1960s, more of the same progressive teaching practices were introduced in the 70s.

To this day, progressive faculties of education produce thousands of graduates eager to replace any remaining traditional teachers and advance a new era of social justice education, activist training, and 21st-century woke culture. Agents of secular-progressive governments have become the permanent schoolmasters of North American children.

One of the leading school reformers of the last century was the iconic Columbia University philosopher John Dewey. His ideas influenced educational theory for more than 100 years. We will examine Deweys worldview more closely in Part 4 of this cultural history of education.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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William Brooks is a Canadian writer who contributes to The Epoch Times from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Civil Conversation for Canadas Civitas Society.

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Attack On Salman Rushdie Manifests Barbarism In The Name Of Religion: Taslima Nasrin – Outlook India

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Salman Rushdie did not stay in Iran, the country that declared a price on his head. I have lived in Bangladesh and India, two countries where price on my head has been set repeatedly. It is these two countries where I have faced death threats, been physically attacked, had processions taken out against me, had my books banned and my TV serials taken off air. If Rushdie is not safe under police protection in the Western world, theres little left to be imagined about my personal safety. But I am not in favour of trading for a safe and placid life in fear of diatribe and personal security. I choose to express my views in spite of the threat to my life, even if none subscribe to my views. I stand for my views against religious brutality, for humanism, rationalism, and equal rights for women.

The same Iran that had issued a fatwa against Rushdie in 1989 has sentenced Jafar Panahi, the world-famous filmmaker, to six years imprisonment for criticising the government just a few weeks ago. There is no trace of human rights in Iran after the Islamic revolution. Anyone who has dared to voice uncomfortable truthscriticised the government, sought an end to fundamentalism, demanded equal rights for womenhas been tortured mercilessly, jailed and executed. Minority communities, homosexuals, transgenders and socially-conscious people of the arts and sciences are routinely tortured.

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The most important requirement for strangulation of democracy, equal rights for women and right to speech is to move the State away from secularism and make it believe in a religion, causing it to follow the doctrines of that religion. Any religion will eventually, almost inevitably, walk against democracy, decree against equal rights for women, and violate the right to speech. These problems are more evident in declared Islamic countries.

Things have come to such a pass that minority Islamic groups are capable of producing indoctrinated religious terrorists even in traditionally secular countries that uphold the right to speech. The person who tried to kill Rushdie is one of them. Whether in the minority or majority, Muslim fundamentalists are active everywhere. If young people are bred systematically in religion, it doesnt take long for them to be turned into religious fanatics. The path from fanaticism to terrorism is then easy to traverse.

Religion has given nothing to humans and society apart from bigotry, ignorance, communal hatred and terrorism.

Islamic terrorists dont care about the law of the land; they only follow Allahs laws. Critics of Islam were killed in the 7th century, and they are killed even today in the 21st century. Its soldiers are still carrying out the orders of Allah, who is famous for being the almighty, all-knowing, most beneficent, most gracious, and most merciful. They will continue doing it until Islam is reformed, free speech is allowed, violence is denounced, the breeding ground for extremism is demolished.

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Other religions have evolved, but thats hardly what we can say about Islam. Islam has been exempted from critical scrutiny that applies to other religions. Islam has not gone through an enlightenment process by which the barbaric, inhuman, unequal, unscientific aspects of religion have been questioned. Other religions could rectify their errors and mistakes; prohibit barbarity and violence against women. It was possible because those religions were subjected to critical scrutiny. On the other hand, all forms of d iscrimination against women still continue to exist in Islam.

Islam must be very weak and fragile so Islamists need blood to keep it alive. In this desperate situation if moderate Muslims do not break their silence and do not protest against jihadis, we would have to think that there is no such thing as moderate Muslims.

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No religious scripture is sacred. All religious texts have been created by human beings. The same goes for the Quran. The days of considering a book as holy or as a commandment of the Almighty are long gone. Human beings arent too far away from watching and experiencing the beginning of the creation of the universe, the Big Bang explosion. Till date, we couldnt get hold of any proof of something we can call God. Scientific discoveries have time and again proved that religions are nothing but fairy tales. Believing in such fairy tales, enough humans have killed other humans, enough people have harmed others. They need to stop now. Let the backward thoughts of these barbarians who are anti-democracy, anti-individual freedom and anti-freedom of speech be identified, marked and called out.

Let the world, the progress of the world, the future of the world, and above all, humanity, be saved from them.

An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul is banned in India. The government considered its portrayal of the country to be negative.

Most of the declared religious countries in the world are Islamic states. Non-Islamic states are by and large, secular in nature. Socially aware artists and litterateurs are deprived of human rights in almost all Islamic states. Those who are unscathed have inevitably compromised themselves. India has its own share of myriad problems. It is said that Hindutva is currently in its heyday and Muslims in the country are cornered. Not that there is no truth in what is said, but in spite of all this, two Muslim men in Udaipur did dare to barge into the shop of Kanhaiya Lal and slaughter him in broad daylight. If I were to imagine a Hindu in a similar state of rage against a Muslim in Bangladesh, I cannot imagine him in a similar act of murder. Murders are possible only by those who dont care or believe deeply that the Almighty above has given them the right to kill.

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What happened in the plush surroundings of the newly-opened Lulu Mall in Lucknow was truly fantastic. A few Muslims without any provocation settled down to offer namaaz inside the mall. There are some Muslims that consider the entire world to be their personal mosque. Nothing deters them from starting their namaaz anywhere and everywhere. Seeing some Muslims offering namaaz in the mall, a few Hindus scampered together and started reading the Hanuman Chalisa at the same place. The police, dying to react, swung into action and arrested a few of the Hanuman Chalisa readers. Chaos and commotion ensued. The flustered officials of Lulu Mall put up a notice saying, Any form of religious prayer is prohibited in this mall.

Let such notices stating Any form of religious prayer is prohibited here be put up in all malls, markets, museums, roads, schools, colleges, offices, courts, boats, launches, buses, trains, ships and airplanes. The time for removing religion from all public places is long overdue. Actually, there is no need for religious institutions, prayer halls, and faith schools. Religion has given nothing to society apart from bigotry, ignorance, communal hatred and terrorism. While it is a grave mistake not to keep religion separate from the State, it is equally big a mistake to let religion meddle in politics. The Islam that is brandishing its swords and killing free thinkers and progressive people is a political Islam. As long as political Islam is alive, every free thinker will live with a constant threat to life.

Religion has given nothing to humans and society apart from bigotry, ignorance, communal hatred and terrorism.

Theres no other way left for us but to free the world from terror and make the world a better place to live. Theres no option left for us but to ensure every human beings right to expression and protect the safety of every life. If we dont do it even today, well all sink into the darkness of an uncertain future. Governments of all nations have to stop using religion for their political interests. Religion should go away from public places for the sake of humanity. The strict separation between state and religion is urgently necessary. Humans have no choice left but to be scientific in their outlook. Fairytales dont save human beings, rationalism and humanism do.

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Religion has given nothing to humans and society apart from bigotry, ignorance, communal hatred and terrorism. While it is a grave mistake not to keep religion separated from the State, it is equally big a mistake to let religion meddle into the politics of the State. The Islam that is brandishing its metals and killing freethinkers and progressive people is political Islam. As long as political Islam is alive, every freethinker will live with a constant threat to life.

(This appeared in the print edition as "Barbarism in the Name of Religion")

(Views expressed are personal)

Taslima Nasrin is an award winning feminist poet, novelist and public intellectual

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Britain doesnt need a public holiday to remember the slave trade – The Spectator

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A fair number of episodes in the history of this country are frankly best forgotten. The last thing to do with them, one might have thought, would be to memorialise them with bank holidays. Giving people in Britain a day off to mark, say, Cromwells harrying of Ireland in the 17th century, or the starting of the Boer War in the interest of corporate capital in the 19th, would at the very least raise eyebrows.

Yet yesterday, on Unescos International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, black studies academic Kehinde Andrews suggested exactly this in respect of one such event: namely, our involvement in slavery. There was, he said, really nothing more important to Britains development. We therefore needed a permanent official public holiday to keep its memory alive, preserve a conscience of the horrors of the transatlantic trade, and to remind us of its direct outcome in the form of continued structural racism, and racial economic and health inequality, in Britain today.

Really? This argument deserves a closer look. For one thing, there is some rather odd historical reasoning going on here.

Nothing more important to Britains development? British involvement in the slave trade lasted about 200 years, until its abolition in 1807 and the final suppression of servitude in 1833. During that time it was largely colonial (and not everywhere: Ontario, for example, legislated to free its slaves in 1793). Although some Britons may have owned slaves or shares in slaving businesses, in mainland Britain its status was always dubious, both legally and socially. Against Lord Hardwickes insistence in 1749 that planters could rest assured that any slaves they brought here remained unfree, we have Lord Mansfields words in 1772 in the great Somerset habeas corpus case that in this country the restraint of a slave was odious, and since it was not allowed or approved by the law of England, therefore the black must be discharged. Even if slave-run plantations contributed some of the capital for Britains industrial development, can anyone seriously see this as the most important feature of nearly a thousand years of British history from the Norman Conquest to 2022?

Again, its all very well to cite Marxist historian Eric Williamss view that we can take no credit for abolition because by 1833 slavery had ceased to make economic sense and abolishing it was therefore financially rational. True, he was probably right on the economics: indeed, Adam Smith had said roughly this in the Wealth of Nations in 1776. But to imply from this that the suppression owed everything to economics and nothing to decent moral sensibility is, unless you are a fairly crude economic determinist, somewhat extreme. There was a large moral side to the abolitionist campaign; furthermore, parliamentarians had to be persuaded to vote for abolition, and not all politicians, even in the 19th century, thought exclusively in money terms. It is also a bit difficult to see how this argument could be applied to the use of the West Africa Squadron to suppress the trade after abolition, where there is no obvious British financial self-interest to be found.

Moreover, while racism does undoubtedly exist against black and West Indian people in Britain today, the argument that it is somehow structural and the product of slavery is by no means obvious. Large-scale immigration started only in the 1950s, 120 years after abolition. Unless one believes in some kind of mystical collective folk memory lasting for four generations or so, that West Indians should be seen by white people in some sense as would-be slaves after such a time is implausible. In other words, the institution of slavery may explain the presence of people of African descent in this country, but it is hard put to it to explain the prejudice they encounter.

Unfortunately, to a select group of the initiated, rationalism of this kind about racism cuts little if any ice. Instead, obsession with the past institution of slavery and its perceived consequences today, together with the modern intellectual edifices of postmodernism and anti-racism, are increasingly morphing into a cult. We have what is close to a new religion, something seen as outside and beyond secular intellectual processes.

Indeed, there is an intriguing parallel. One hundred and seventy years ago Edward Pusey and the 19th-century Oxford Movement saw scripture not as a basis for logical argument but as a support for spontaneous faith inspired by the church fathers. Today anti-racist cultists think in much the same way about history. Listen to members (especially black members) lived experience, they argue, and you will see the light. Do not ask if history shows that Britain is a hotbed of slavery-derived racism inherent in its very structure, but instead accept that it is, and then ask how history supports this view. Only then will you (especially if you are white) be able to accept your collective guilt and work towards allyship with the oppressed. At this point, for the initiated, everything falls into place. If we are all indeed marked with ineradicable racial guilt, what better than to set up an anti-racist day of penitence, in the same way as Christians mark Good Friday?

From the rest of us, the answer must be simple. We should not join this miserabilist cult. We should continue to question its assumptions from a rationalist standpoint. For that matter, we might even go one better. Heres a nice contrary idea. Why not have a new public holiday, but make it a day of genuine celebration? An obvious candidate would be not some dreary Unesco remembrance day, but 1 August, the anniversary of the date when the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect. It might even help all of us, black and white alike, to celebrate freedom.

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Elon Musk and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis reportedly conceived twins via IVF – The Independent

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The twins Elon Musk fathered with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis were reportedly conceived via in vitro fertilization and the pair did not have a romantic relationship, according to Reuters.

Zilis, 36, reportedly told her colleagues that she was not involved romantically with Musk, 51. Instead, she conceived the children with him through in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to five sources close to the situation. Reuters could not establish the accuracy of Zilis account.

The top executive has worked as Musks director of operations and special projects at the neurotechnology firm for five years. The outlet also reported that Neuralinks 62-page employee handbook prohibits relationships between supervisors and subordinates to avoid any conflicts of interest.

However, Neuralink allegedly accepted Zilis description of her relationship with Musk as non-romantic and has continued her role at the company. Sources also told Reuters that the two have continued working together since the disclosure of their having children. Most recently, sources said Musk had sent Zilis to arrange a meeting with Thomas Oxley, the CEO of Neuralinks competitor, Synchron.

The Tesla CEO secretly had twins in November of 2021, according to court documents obtained by Insider. The children were born weeks before the billionaire welcomed his second child via surrogate with his on-again, off-again partner, the musician Grimes.

In May, a Texas court approved Musk and Zilis petition to change the twins name to have their fathers last name, and contain part of their mothers last name in their middle name. Court documents also show the pair listed the same home address in Austin, Texas.

Zilis, a Yale-educated artificial intelligence specialist, began working with Musk through OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research nonprofit Musk helped found in 2015. She then joined Musk at Tesla as a project director, and went on to work at Neuralink, another Musk-led neurotechnology firm which designs computer implants to allow peoples brains to control electronic devices.

Elon Musk is a father to nine children with three different women. In 2000, the SpaceX founder married his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson. Two years later, they welcomed their first child Nevada Alexander Musk, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) when he was 10 weeks old. They went on to have a set of twins Griffin and Vivian Musk in 2004 and triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian Musk in 2006.

Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, revealed in a Vanity Fair profile in April that she and Musk welcomed their second child a daughter named Exa Dark Siderl Musk in December 2021 via surrogate. The two are also parents to their two-year-old son, X A-12 Musk.

In September 2021, Musk revealed to Page Six that he and Grimes have semi-separated due to conflicting schedules and locations, altough the singer explained to Vanity Fair that the two have a fluid, inexplicable partnership. Grimes tweeted later on that the two have broken up since welcoming their daughter weeks after he fathered twins with Zilis but hes my best friend and the love of my life.

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Biometric Wearable Market Research Insights with Trends, Competitive Analysis, Opportunities, Forecast 2022 to 2030 Muleskinner – Muleskinner

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The globalbiometric wearable marketis expected to grow from USD 42.9 billion in 2022 to USD 82.9 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 14.1%. The market has a promising growth potential due to several factors, including increasing the advancements in biometric technology across various sectors and rising demand for authentication and identification solutions as well as security and surveillance solutions in various application areas such as in consumer electronics, the government in APAC and other regions.

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Chris Forsyth: Evolution Here We Come Album Review – Pitchfork

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Like John Cale before him, guitarist and composer Chris Forsyth has evolved along a multifaceted trajectory, expanding his toolkit with each new record. Where his earlier albums relied on intricate, almost hallucinatory, instrumental explorations, 2019s All Time Present redirected his electric improvisations into a more structured song-based format. All Time Present encapsulated Forsyths love for straightforward rocknroll, the logical continuation of his career-long journey from the noise folk of Peeesseye, through the technical art rock of his Solar Motel band, toward a new solo sound that felt equally at home in the studio or on stage.

On his latest album, Evolution Here We Come, Forsyth dials in his unique fusion of tightly constructed instrumental rock and the avant-garde. If All Time Present leaned on the swirling sounds of late 1960s and early 70s psychedelia, Evolution Here We Come embraces the solid state distortion and lightly phased effects of the early 80s. For these seven sharp, efficient tracks, Forsyth enlisted a band equipped to complement his vision: Tortoises Doug McCombs introduces the record with a pillowy, thumping bassline thats quickly recontextualized by drummer Ryan Jewell. Sun Ra disciple and Philadelphia experimental music veteran Marshall Allen also appears, floating over the fray with electronic fragments reminiscent of his mentors Minimoog improvisations.

Co-produced by Darksides Dave Harrington, the album embraces an immersive, underwater sound that stands out in Forsyths catalog. His belief in the endless possibilities of his primary instrument remains consistent, and here, he collaborates with several guitarists who help expand his repertoire. Alongside Garcia Peoples Tom Malach, Bill Nace contributes a sizzling and buzzing accompaniment (listed in the credits as Metal Machine Tashigoto) on Experimental & Professional, while Nick Millevoi plays lap steel on a standout cover of Richard Thompsons Youre Going to Need Somebody. Both guest performances feel like abstractions of Forsyths style on guitar, respectively tapping into the instruments noisier potential and its quieter, pastoral ambience.

The most daring appearance on the record, however, is Forsyths own turn as a frontman. On Youre Going to Need Somebody, he stands squarely and proudly in front of the microphone. Accompanied by husband-and-wife vocalists Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon, he summons ghosts of early 80s Lou Reed or Tom Verlaine, artists whose work he has always been better at conjuring through his instrumental performances. Swapping their detached sneers for a warm, heartfelt tone, he gives his strongest vocal performance to date. As Forsyth ventures into new territory, hes found a way to bring his influences along for the ride.

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Can we predict evolution? – Big Think

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Evolution has a reputation for being unpredictable, yet orderly. With mutations and the environment playing huge roles, it seems that predicting which species will evolve which traits is much like guessing the roll of a single die with millions of faces.

However, in some cases, researchers have found that the die rolls the same way again and again. A combination of separate organisms natural development and the environmental pressures placed on them can create very similar forms, or ecomorphs. Researchers call this phenomenon replicated radiation. (Sometimes, the term adaptive radiation is used synonymously.)

A fictional example might help clarify. Suppose five different groups of SpongeBobs are suddenly separated, spreading geographically into five other regions in the ocean, with no chance of interacting again. Speciation then occurs over millions of years in each of the five areas. But instead of producing novel forms in each of the five regions, the new species of SpongeBob all differ from the original group in a similar way.

For example, if the original SpongeBob species is yellow and square, perhaps all five new species each evolving independently have become orange and round. Being orange and round, it turns out, helps the new species adapt to similar environmental conditions that are present in all these regions. This means that the combination of natural organismal development and some environmental pressure produced a similar form five times. The dice were rolled in each area, and they always gave the same number.

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international group of researchers demonstrated that a plant lineage living in 11 geographically isolated regions independently evolved new species with similar leaf forms. This marks the first example of replicated radiation in plants, and the groundbreaking research gives us more insight into the possible future workings of evolution.

Oreinotinus is a member of Viburnum, a group of shrubs or trees that you have probably seen planted around North American towns. Viburnum species have branches adorned with lime-green leaves and topped with small, white flowers that give off a pleasant, nutty aroma. The group, which lives in mountainous regions, spread south from Mexico into Central and South America around 10 million years ago.

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Different species of Oreinotinus have different types of leaves. Simply put, some have a large, hair-covered leaf, and others have a smaller, smooth leaf. Originally, experts postulated that both leaf forms evolved early in the groups history and then dispersed separately through various mountain ranges, carried perhaps by birds. But the distribution pattern of the species, combined with the striking differences in leaf traits, gave researchers an ideal system to explore the possibility that these leaf forms evolved independently across different regions. In other words, they could explore whether this was a case of replicated radiation.

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The researchers identified 11 mountainous areas, each of them containing a unique, endemic species of Oreinotinus. All the areas are separated by lowland barriers that block plant dispersal barriers such as the Isthmus of Panama, the Caribbean Sea, or the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The researchers studied 40 Oreinotinus species, and only four of them are present in more than one of the 11 areas. To trace the evolutionary history of the leaf forms, the researchers examined the species relationships to one another (phylogeny), their geographic distribution, and the leaves themselves.

If replicated radiation is occurring, the researchers would expect two key results. First, species in the same area should be more closely related to each other than to species in different regions. Second, similar leaf traits should be present in most areas, but they should evolve independently of one another.

As Oreinotinus diversified, four major leaf types evolved independently from an ancestral leaf form. The four forms varied in size, shape, margin that is, whether the edge of the leaf is smooth or toothed and the presence of leaf hairs. The study grouped the leaves into four types. The researchers also backed up their assessments with a statistical analysis based on these characteristics.

Nine of the 11 areas harbor at least two leaf forms; four areas include three forms; and one, Oaxaca, is home to four. Based on simulations and models, the authors rejected the simple evolutionary model in which the leaf forms evolved before the species dispersed. They also found that chance alone does not likely explain why nine areas of endemism host two or more leaf forms. Based on these lines of evidence, the team concluded that leaf forms evolved separately within multiple regions. The leaf morphs did not originate early in Oreinotinus evolution. Rather, as different lineages diversified within different areas, each lineage traversed the same regions of leaf morpho-space.

Leaves do not change randomly different leaf forms have differing functions. We know that a leafs size and shape influence light capture, thermoregulation, and the efficiency of photosynthesis. Leaf hairs help regulate the leafs temperature, influence photosynthesis, and protect leaves from herbivores.

So what is this clade telling us when it evolves different leaf forms? As it turns out, different leaves provide different advantages that suit particular climate niches. For example, the smaller leaves would allow more precise thermoregulation the leaf wont get too hot or too cold as the weather changes. On the other hand, large leaves would be better for lower-light, frequently cloudy environments, because they improve light capture and make photosynthesis more efficient. So the different leaf ecomorphs are adapted to specific sets of subtly different but often adjacent environmental niches.

Essentially, the researchers propose that as Oreinotinus spread southwards, geographic separation yielded different species with very similar ecological functions and traits. Later, speciation occurred within the different regions to produce repeated adaptive shifts in leaf form.

Researchers can now add Oreinotinus to an exclusive list of other groups of organisms known to have undergone replicated radiation, such as Anolis lizards in the Caribbean, cichlid fishes in African rift lakes, and spiders in Hawaii.

With a plant on the list, evolutionary biologists know this is not a trend exclusive to animals isolated on islands, where most of the other examples come from. Like island archipelagos, the cloud forest environments of Oreinotinus are separate from one another. A plant example will help evolutionary biologists pinpoint the broad circumstances under which we can make solid predictions about evolution.

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Studies of replicated radiation are not the first efforts to tease out the mechanisms behind evolution. Some researchers, though, look to the future rather than the past. In a notable 2013 study, researchers bred the bacteria E. coli for six months equivalent to 1,200 generations for the fast-growing organisms. Soon, most bacteria began to specialize in one of the two food sources available acetate (vinegar) or glucose (sugar). They restarted the cycle twice and found that the proportions of acetate specialists and glucose specialists were the same in all three iterations. Notably, these similarities were mirrored in the genetics of the bacteria. In all three experiments, mutations in the bacterial metabolic pathway led bacteria to develop either a sweet or a sour tooth.

Whether its Darwins finches, Oreinotinus, or a group of sugar-hungry E. coli, we are all subject to the mysterious workings of evolution. But perhaps, as a diverse set of research groups work to tackle the problem, the mystery will fade. As Michael Donoghue, a co-corresponding author of the Oreinotinus study, said in a statement, Maybe evolutionary biology can become much more of a predictive science than we ever imagined in the past.

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New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment – The University of Texas at Austin

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The Long-Term Evolution Experiment began back when a dozen eggs cost 65 cents, the film Rain Man topped the box office and George Michael's song "Faith" ruled the pop charts. The bacteria central to this long-running experimentdescendants of E. coli that were plucked from the wild and have spent some 75,000 generations in captivitynow live on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

Jeff Barrick, director of the Long-Term Evolution Experiment, examines a dish of E.coli bacteria from the LTEE. Credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin.

Having featured in major news stories from around the world, these are some famous bacteriaand one can understand why. Compare the 1980s version of these microbes with those in the lab of associate professor of molecular biosciences Jeff Barrick in Austin today, and it's like juxtaposing our hairy human ancestors from 1.5 million years ago, just as they're learning to control fire, with a person living today. That's how far evolution has carried them apart.

Richard Lenski, at the time an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Irvine and later a mentor to Barrick, started the experiment when he took a single E. coli bacterium, let it divide a few times into identical clones and then inoculated 12 flasks filled with a sugary growth medium and placed them in an incubator set to human body temperature.

By the next morning, the bacteria in each flask had gorged themselves on glucose and doubled about seven times. He then began a routine that has been carried out nearly every day for the past 34 years: he (or a researcher in his lab) diluted the bacteria by transferring small samples into 12 new flasks with fresh glucose to munch on.

After 34 years and 75,000 generations of bacterial evolution, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment moved to the University of Texas at Austin in summer 2022. Credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin.

On June 21, 2022, Barrick revived a dozen samples of bacteria that had been frozen in cryoprotectant and shipped on dry ice to his lab at UT Austin. With a TV news crew capturing the historic moment, Barrick carefully pipetted a portion of each bacterial population into sterile flasks filled with their familiar growth medium and put them in an incubator. There was a palpable sense of excitement in the lab about this once-a-(human)-generation hand-off in an experiment that has become so much larger than one scientist or one research question.

"Time is really important for seeing evolution in action," said Barrick, associate professor of molecular biosciences at UT Austin and now director of the Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE). "The longer the experiment, the more interesting things you can see develop. I compare it to astronomy. The bigger the telescope, the farther back in time and space you can see."

Evolution on a Human Schedule

When Lenski started the LTEE in 1988, he wanted to know how repeatable evolution was.

"Each of those populations has evolved independently from each other since the beginning of the experiment," said Barrick. "So they've all explored different trajectories of evolution. You can ask what happens the same when you replay this tape versus what happens differently only in one of the twelve flasks."

At first, despite being isolated from each other, bacteria in each of the flasks mostly evolved in similar ways. But more than 15 years into the experiment, or about 30,000 generations in, something peculiar happened. The scientists were surprised to find that bacteria in one of the 12 flasks had evolved the ability to consume not just the main food source that all the others were eating (glucose), but another component in the media, citrate. That was a capability nearly all E. coli lack, including the ones used to start the experiment. To this day, no other E. coli in any of the other 11 flasks in the experiment has evolved to tap into this unused resource.

The experiment has also proven to be a great tool for making evolutionary theory tangible. As the bacterial generations rolled by, new genetic mutations arose that allowed some bacteria to consume the sugary growth medium more rapidly and divide faster than their wild cousins. Over time, the bacteria with mutations that made them fitter outcompeted their slow-eating neighbors and eventually dominated. And it happened not just once, but frequently. It's still happening today.

"It's one of the most direct demonstrations of Darwinian adaptation by natural selection you can imagine," Lenski, now a professor at Michigan State University, told Veritasium.

It was initially predicted that the bacteria would eventually hit some natural limit on how much fitter they could become over time.

"But that seems to be untrue," said Barrick. "The rate is ever diminishing, but still improving in terms of the competitive ability of the microbes."

Every morning, a scientist dilutes 12 populations of bacteria and transfers small samples of them into 12 new flasks with fresh glucose to munch on. On June 21, the first day of the restarted experiment, the honor went to Jeff Barrick, director of the LTEE. Credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin.

Passing the Torch

Barrick was a postdoctoral researcher in Lenski's lab from 2006 to 2010 and knew the experiment well. Using genome sequencing tools that had recently become available in his early scientific career, Barrick was able to track how mutations were spreading over time in the LTEE. Now, as a tenured professor, he runs a robust, multidisciplinary lab with the students and other resources needed to maintain such an experiment.

"I'm a big proponent of open science," Barrick told Nature. "This is a great resource that I want to support and share and continue. It's become kind of a common touchstone for a lot of stories about bacterial evolution. And something that people can take in so many directions. I'm excited about supporting the community."

Lenski wrote on the experiment's website about the decision to hand it off:

"I was thrilled when Jeff Barrick accepted my invitation to lead the LTEE into the future! Jeff is an outstanding scientist with expertise in many relevant areas including evolution, microbiology, genomics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, molecular biology, and synthetic biology. Moreover, Jeff leads a team of talented students, postdocs, and techniciansa team that not only will sustain the never-ending daily transfers of the LTEE lines, but who will also ask new questions, propose new analyses, and form new collaborations to answer their questions."

These 12 flasks contain bacteria that have evolved isolated from each other and their wild cousins for 75,000 generations, roughly equivalent to 1.5 million years of human evolution. Credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin.

One of those questions is why haven't the bacteria in the experiment lost more genes? Evolutionary theory and surveys of bacterial diversity in nature suggest that over time, organisms that are well adapted to their environment will lose genes that are no longer beneficial. So far, the scientists haven't seen much reduction in genome size for the LTEE bacteria. Maybe it's just a very slow process. It's one of many reasons Barrick and Lenski said it's important to keep the experiment going for as long as possible.

One thing that makes the LTEE experiment especially powerful is that every 500 generations, a sample of the latest version of each population is frozen. This has resulted in a kind of fossil record of past stages of each flask's evolution. This archive serves as a resource for researchers around the world. As new technologies become available or young scientists dream up new questions to ask, they can go back to this archive, revive the bacteria, and do new research.

In addition to hosting the most current generations of bacteria, UT Austin is now also home to this primary archive. Surprisingly, even with 75,000 generations, this archive still occupies only about half of a standard table-sized chest freezer. The compact size and rapid reproduction of bacteria make studying their evolution much easier than that of fruit flies, corn or mice.

Barrick is looking forward to the ways that new technologies can open up new research directions. He said DNA barcoding, a way of tagging individual bacteria, could enable researchers to get a more detailed view of the dynamics of competing mutations and accurately measure how individual mutations impact fitness. There are also questions about whether the continually evolving bacteria in the experiment will reach a stage where they have accumulated so many genetic differences from their ancestors that they become essentially a new species.

"You can put it back out in nature, mix it with other microbes, and see whether pieces of this genome combine with another bacterium's genome," said Barrick. "That's one of the things that keeps a group of bacteria together as a species. Researchers are testing this idea right now, looking to see if barriers to genetic recombination are rising."

A frozen archive of past stages of each flasks evolution represents a kind of fossil record enabling researchers to go back and explore new questions. Credit: Nolan Zunk/University of Texas at Austin.

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How the Ice Ages spurred the evolution of New Zealands weird and wiry native plants – The Conversation

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Recent genetic research has shed new light on the long-running debate about the evolutionary origins of some of New Zealands quirkiest plants.

More than one in ten native trees and shrubs have small leaves spaced far apart on wiry interlaced branches, often growing in a zig-zag pattern. Once the preserve of botanists, some of these plants have recently gained popularity as ornamentals.

Nowhere else on Earth has this divaricate growth form arisen independently in so many plant families.

It is a spectacular case of convergent evolution in response to environmental pressures. But what environmental pressures? The answer might help us decide how to manage New Zealand ecosystems.

The 19th-century German botanist Ludwig Diels noted that small-leaved shrubs are typical of dry climates. He thought the divaricate form might have arisen in response to cold, dry conditions during the Ice Ages.

In the 1970s, the competing moa browsing hypothesis emerged, arguing the divaricate form is a now-anachronistic defence against browsing by the large flightless birds that went extinct shortly after Polynesian settlement.

Read more: How did ancient moa survive the ice age and what can they teach us about modern climate change?

Experiments have since lent support to the browsing hypothesis. Yet the concentration of divaricate plants in frosty and droughty districts suggests climate is also somehow involved.

So does evidence that the small leaves of divaricates are less vulnerable to chilling than large leaves. But climate does not seem to explain the unusual toughness of the branchlets of divaricate plants.

Molecular dating shows most divaricate plant species arose within the last five million years. But fossils and genetic evidence show moa have been here much longer than that. This means moa browsing alone does not explain the evolution of divaricate forms in so many plant families.

The evidence seems more consistent with a newer synthetic hypothesis that moa browsing had more impact when plants were exposed to a new combination of circumstances: worldwide cooling, the development of frosty, droughty climates in the lee of the recently uplifted Southern Alps, and fertile new soils derived from glacial outwash.

Frosty and droughty climates posed direct physiological challenges to plants, but they also left them more exposed to browsing by preventing them from growing quickly out of reach of moa. Climatic restrictions on growth thus probably made anti-browsing defences more important for plant survival.

Read more: Dead as the moa: oral traditions show that early Mori recognised extinction

Support for this hypothesis comes from a recent experiment, which found climate influenced the impact of deer browsing on competition between divaricate plants and their broad-leaved relatives growing in treefall gaps.

Furthermore, the fertile new soils created by outwash from glaciers would have enhanced the nutrient content of plant tissues, probably resulting in increased browsing pressure. Studies of African savannas show that thorns and divaricate-like growth forms are typical of fertile soils with abundant browsing mammals.

For several centuries after the extinction of the moa, there were no large browsers in New Zealand, until European settlers introduced deer and other hoofed animals. Although valued as game animals and a food source, deer are also considered pests because of their impact on native vegetation.

Feeding experiments have shown both avian and hoofed herbivores are unenthusiastic about eating divaricate plants if alternatives with large soft leaves are available. The spacing of small leaves far apart along wiry branchlets reduces bite size and makes it difficult for browsers to meet their nutritional needs.

Scientists have studied ancient moa diets by identifying pollen grains in fossilised poo (coprolites). Data interpretation is hampered by our inability to identify pollen to species level in plant groups that include both divaricate and broad-leaved species. But it would seem likely that divaricate plants presented similar nutritional challenges to moa.

Analysis of moa coprolites suggests forest understories a millennium ago were more diverse than those we see today, after more than 150 years of browsing by deer. This suggests moa had less impact on vegetation than deer do today.

Unlike deer in contemporary New Zealand, moa faced a deadly predator throughout the entire country: the now-extinct Haasts eagle. Although moa could safely browse under forest canopies, they would have been at risk at watering sites and in open areas.

In contrast, although deer face strong hunting pressure in some areas, recreational hunting has little impact in remote and rugged areas like the Kaweka ranges, where uncontrolled populations of sika deer threaten regeneration of even relatively unpalatable trees like mountain beech.

Fast-growing palatable shrubs and small trees like karam, pat and mhoe probably got their best chance to escape moa browsing when treefalls let in enough light to enable them to grow quickly out of reach, at least in warmer districts where such plants can grow more than a metre in one growing season.

Treefall gaps must have offered two other advantages for palatable plants. The remains of fallen trees can hamper access by large herbivores, and canopy openings would have exposed moa to attack by Haasts eagle.

Moa were probably less able to exploit vegetation on steep slopes than deer and goats are today. The impact of moa across New Zealand landscapes would therefore probably have been less pervasive than the current impact of hoofed browsers.

Lastly, moa probably had a more sluggish metabolism than mammalian browsers of comparable size, implying lower energy requirements and hence lower feeding rates. Close living relatives of moa (kiwis and emus) burn less energy than herbivorous mammals of similar body weight or large flighted birds like swans and geese.

Deer could act as imperfect surrogates for moa, but only if subject to effective control throughout the country.

Aerial 1080 drops to control rats, stoats and possums also usually kill deer, though the mortality rate varies widely. That is one way deer populations could be kept to acceptable levels in remote and rugged areas, where recreational hunting pressure is insignificant. Aerial culling by shooting has also shown potential.

Commercial hunting cannot be relied on to control deer, because of the vagaries of the market. When the price of venison falls, there is little incentive to hunt deer. Aerial 1080 or aerial culling therefore currently seem the only realistic ways to curb the impact of deer in remote and rugged areas.

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neXt Evolution of Tintri VMstore Breaks Out of the Data Center and Into the Cloud – PR Newswire

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Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, Tintri Introduces 10 Unique Features Delivering AI-Driven Autonomous Data Services and Ease-of-Use in Hybrid Cloud Ecosystems

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (VMWare Explore Booth #1604) --Tintri, a DDN subsidiaryand the leading provider of auto adaptive, workload intelligent platforms, is celebrating its 10th anniversary of product availability with the "neXt" evolution of Tintri's VMstore series. Expanding on its purpose-built, auto adaptive VMstore platform, Tintri's new Virtual Series incorporates 10 unique features that comprise the company's Platform as a Service (PaaS) approach. The Virtual Series offers autonomous QOS, predictive analytics, distributed data services, and ease-of-use in a robust and efficient virtual data workload management platform for hybrid cloud ecosystems.

As businesses continue to adapt to the massive influx of data and mobile workforces, there is a critical need to implement a more flexible and interconnected IT ecosystem to manage the size and complexity of applications. IT departments must not only manage code updates and new features for these applications, but also the underlying infrastructure which affects workflows while protecting data from being compromised due to ransomware and other impacts. Tintri has seen the movement toward containerization in hybrid IT environments and has adapted its intelligent analytics to enhance locality, security and predictive failure and recovery capabilities.

"We are in close collaboration with our customers and partners and understand the challenges they continue to face as data and application implementation becomes more distributed," said Phil Trickovic, SVP of Revenue, Tintri. "Because of our unique architecture meant specifically for virtual data sets, we are perfectly positioned to meet these new customer challenges and bring tremendous value by rapidly advancing the technology needed to address these new industry dynamics. By decoupling Tintri's AI-powered software from our hardware platform, VMstore customers can now deploy the efficient, transparent and easy-to-use data management platform they're accustomed to with Tintri."

Businesses have consistently turned to Tintri for ease of use, predictable performance and stable service. Customers rely on Tintri to help reduce overhead costs and resources required to manage IT operations, particularly when integrating a cloud strategy. Tintri enables customers to focus on strengthening business operations, leveraging the platform's intelligence to stay ahead of the curve. Tintri VMstore is purpose-built for virtualized workloads and is now taking this same approach to develop the virtual version of VMstore technology, opening the door to new levels of infrastructure efficiency in hybrid cloud ecosystems.

Tintri Virtual Series FeaturesTintri's neXt data management platform will consist of a new Virtual Series solution that enables 10 technology features to lower cost and complexity and gain backup and disaster recovery efficiencies, with the option to deploy and transfer within both on-prem and cloud environments.

"The new Virtual Seriesplatform and the 10 neXt feature additions were designed to address the shift we have seen in the IT market over the last 3-5 years," said Brock Mowry, Tintri's CTO. "Because of VMstore's unique ability to see and manage virtual workloads, these neXt features give users a complete view into their hybrid cloud needs. Both performance and data protection tie back to Tintri's Analytics platform allowing users to design the infrastructure, both cloud and on-prem to best serve the organization's entire application needs."

Tintri Virtual Series Availability & Beta ProgramThe 10 Virtual Series features will roll out over the next 15 months. Tintri Data Security Services and Tanzu Integration are both available today to existing VMstore customers. For more information, contact a Tintri sales representative or visit https://tintri.com/company/talk-to-an-expert/.

Tintri will also launch several beta programs as Tintri rolls out its neXt generation platform. For new and existing customers interested in participating, please email [emailprotected] for more information.

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