Why ability can't be factored from a single life A student with perfect pitch sits in a Mandarin classroom. Perfect pitch is close to an ideal endowment for a tonal language — the four tones are pitch contours, and she can hear them cold. She studies for two years. She can read, she has the … Continue reading The Invisible Ceiling
The Costume of a Fact
When something terrible happens, we reach for one of two boxes. The person was a monster — there were signs, there always are, and if we look hard enough we'll find them. Or the person was ordinary and something in them broke, an inexplicable flip, a good man gone wrong. After the Cumbria shootings in … Continue reading The Costume of a Fact
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