> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. There's a reason for this Monty Python skit:…
I just remembered this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVR27dKuQY, a chimpanzee smoking a cig somewhere in China.
The sentiment is lifted directly from the linked post. It's hard to argue with given the subcontinent had agricultural, seafaring populations while Australian populations never made it past Paleolithic hunter-gathering.
here's some interesting speculation on this topic: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-three-hour-tour/ Basically there's genetic (Y chromosome) and linguistic evidence suggesting an infusion of Indian…
*related since this doesn't seem familiar to people, a little more detail: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/16/did-falling-testosteron... https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-lookup/doi/10.1210/jc....…
relsted to the secular decline in testosterone (whatever's causing that)?
Alternate perspective: "Rethinking the Transmission Gap: What Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology Mean for Attachment Theory", https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303952365_Rethinkin... "Top 10…
Yeah I was skimming replies and didn't notice the thrust of your comment. But I stand by my statement about that particular conversation. Based off what I've seen, if Twitter goes under, I expect one of the participants…
G+ was good (a lot of academics were using it heavily for a while and I think John Baez, for example, still is), but it never accumulated much of a userbase (the reason I don't spend much time on it and probably the…
Facebook is a walled garden w/ no anonymity. Privacy (specifically, most posts are only seen by friends of poster) can be good but it can also stifle discussion. Google Plus might have been good (and got some notable…
I've started keeping such a list actually: [redacted]
I like the scenarios described in https://carcinisation.com/2015/07/23/defensive-epistemology/. One of them is using the efficient market hypothesis (true enough for this application) to avoid being taken in by a real…
> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. There's a reason for this Monty Python skit:…
I just remembered this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVR27dKuQY, a chimpanzee smoking a cig somewhere in China.
The sentiment is lifted directly from the linked post. It's hard to argue with given the subcontinent had agricultural, seafaring populations while Australian populations never made it past Paleolithic hunter-gathering.
here's some interesting speculation on this topic: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-three-hour-tour/ Basically there's genetic (Y chromosome) and linguistic evidence suggesting an infusion of Indian…
*related since this doesn't seem familiar to people, a little more detail: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/16/did-falling-testosteron... https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-lookup/doi/10.1210/jc....…
relsted to the secular decline in testosterone (whatever's causing that)?
Alternate perspective: "Rethinking the Transmission Gap: What Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology Mean for Attachment Theory", https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303952365_Rethinkin... "Top 10…
Yeah I was skimming replies and didn't notice the thrust of your comment. But I stand by my statement about that particular conversation. Based off what I've seen, if Twitter goes under, I expect one of the participants…
G+ was good (a lot of academics were using it heavily for a while and I think John Baez, for example, still is), but it never accumulated much of a userbase (the reason I don't spend much time on it and probably the…
Facebook is a walled garden w/ no anonymity. Privacy (specifically, most posts are only seen by friends of poster) can be good but it can also stifle discussion. Google Plus might have been good (and got some notable…
I've started keeping such a list actually: [redacted]
I like the scenarios described in https://carcinisation.com/2015/07/23/defensive-epistemology/. One of them is using the efficient market hypothesis (true enough for this application) to avoid being taken in by a real…