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, 2021 In 1850, Taylor students organized the Thalonian Literary Society, named after the Greek philosopher Thales and bearing the motto “Know Theyself.”https://pillars.taylor.edu/taylor175wingtraditions/1012/thumbnail ...
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Mathematical Artifacts Have Politics: The Journey from Examples to Embedded Ethics [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We extend Langdon Winner's idea that artifacts have politics into the realm of mathematics. To do so, we first provide a list of examples showing the existence of mathematical artifacts that have politics. In the second step, we provide an argument that shows that all mathematical artifacts have politics.
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, 2021 Nearly half of the building’s existence has been defined by its role as Maytag Gymnasium, but few students can envision Rediger Chapel/Auditorium in its original form.https://pillars.taylor.edu/taylor175wingtraditions/1003/thumbnail ...
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Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space [PDF]
Journal of Big History, Vol III(3), pp. 205 - 224, 2019, 2019 Astrobiology is the field of science devoted to searching for life elsewhere in the Universe. It is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating results from multiple fields of science, and in this respect has strong synergies with 'big history'. I argue that big history and astrobiology are both acting to widen human perspectives in intellectually and ...
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, 2021 A prime example of Taylor’s thriving dorm culture is the annual Melon and Gourd tradition.https://pillars.taylor.edu/taylor175wingtraditions/1006/thumbnail ...
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, 2021 Taylor University joined the world of intercollegiate football in the fall of 1948.https://pillars.taylor.edu/taylor175wingtraditions/1013/thumbnail ...
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Predicting Gender and Political Affiliation Using Mobile Payment Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We explore the understudied area of social payments to evaluate whether or not we can predict the gender and political affiliation of Venmo users based on the content of their Venmo transactions. Latent attribute detection has been successfully applied in the domain of studying social media.
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, 2021 On December 13, 1987, the Echo advertised the first ever “Jay Kesler Christmas Special” beginning a tradition that continues today.https://pillars.taylor.edu/taylor175wingtraditions/1007/thumbnail ...
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Quantifying the `end of history' through a Bayesian Markov-chain approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Political regimes have been changing throughout human history. After the apparent triumph of liberal democracies at the end of the twentieth century, Francis Fukuyama and others have been arguing that humankind is approaching an `end of history' (EoH) in the form of a universality of liberal democracies.
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, 2021 Starting around 1924, freshmen students had to wear green beanies for the first few weeks of schoolhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/taylor175wingtraditions/1014/thumbnail ...
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