The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center announces four finalists from the essay contest portion of the Great American Think-Off. These four essayists each win $500 and a weekend trip to New York Mills in June to participate in the live philosophical debate.
During the debate, the finalists argue their side of the question, âWhich is more important: to win or to play by the rules?â Two finalists will assert that winning is more important, while the other two finalists will argue that playing by the rules is more important.
The debate among the four armchair philosophers is on Saturday, June 12. The finalists will be available to meet the public at the Great American Think-Off Kick-Off event the evening of Friday, June 11 at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center during a philosophers and artists reception. In addition to honoring the Think-Off finalists, the reception will also feature regional visual artists on display in the galleryâs âHappiness Projec
Cultural Center announces finalists for Great American Think-Off
During the debate, the finalists argue their side of the question, “Which is more important: to win or to play by the rules?
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NEW YORK MILLS The New York Mills Regional Cultural Center announces four finalists from the essay contest portion of the Great American Think-Off. These four essayists each win $500 and a weekend trip in June to New York Mills to participate in the live philosophical debate.
During the debate, the finalists argue their side of the question, “Which is more important: to win or to play by the rules?” Two finalists will assert that winning is more important, while the other two finalists will argue that playing by the rules is more important.
Finalists announced for Great American Think-Off in New York Mills
This year, the four finalists received a prize $500 will debate the topic: Which is more important: to win or to play by the rules?” on Saturday, June 12, at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center.
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New York Mills Cultural Center s 28th annual Great American Think-Off (Submitted photo)
An annual New York Mills tradition is back for its 28th year. The Great American Think-Off invites several finalists from their essay contest to compete in a civil disagreement between different ideas.
This year, the four finalists received a prize $500 and will debate the topic: Which is more important: to win or to play by the rules?” on Saturday, June 12 at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center. Two finalists will debate for one side of the argument, while the other two will debate for the other side.
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image captionThe Neanderthal specimens have some features that are more characteristic of modern human teeth
Prehistoric teeth unearthed at a site in Jersey reveal signs of interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species, scientists say.
UK experts re-studied 13 teeth found between 1910 and 1911 at La Cotte de St Brelade in the island s south-west.
They were long regarded as being typical Neanderthal specimens, but the reassessment also uncovered features characteristic of modern human teeth.
The teeth may represent some of the last known Neanderthal remains.
As such, they might even yield clues to what caused the disappearance of our close evolutionary cousins.
Ancient teeth suggest Neanderthals and Homo sapiens got it on more than a few times
The teeth had been discovered over a century ago, but researchers are now seeing them in a new light.
Ancient teeth gathered a century ago hint at a hybrid population of Neanderthals and modern humans on the islands between France and Britain. This adds to existing evidence that the two groups interbred multiple times across history.
Some of the Neanderthal teeth recovered from La Cotte de St Brelade. Image credits: Compton et al (2021),
Journal of Human Evolution.
What you can learn from teeth
Neanderthals emerged some 400,000 years ago, coming to dominate a vast swath stretching from Western Europe to deep Siberia. They were a bit shorter and stockier than Homo sapiens, but otherwise, the two are very similar. Anthropologists have increasingly shown that Neanderthals weren’t the brutes they were once believed to be: they were every bit as smart and cunning as Homo sapiens.