You are correct, I looked up the original study and found that the picture book and the furry dog were actually the neutral condition toys. The feminine toys were a doll and a red cooking pan. Thank you for pointing…
It's very interesting that you bring up toys as an example, because it turns out there is quite good evidence that gender toy preferences are partially genetic. Think about this: if toy preference is just a social…
It's not irrelevant. Look through the HN guidelines [1]. Articles like this are definitely acceptable. - Hacker News Guidelines - What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes…
I don't think that quote is relevant anymore. pg wrote that in 2009, and both HN and reddit have changed a lot over the past five years. If you asked him what he thinks about that topic today I'm sure he would say…
Even if REEs are more common than their name suggests, with current consumption trends we're going to face massive resource depletion shocks within two decades as crucial industrial elements run out. New Scientist…
This puzzle has been on the XKCD puzzles wiki for several years. They have some very fun puzzles there. It's a huge timewaster, so only click if you have nothing pressing to do.…
I have not read the book in question, but I have read Pinker's previous book The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature. In it, there is a section on the same topic where he argues that our belief that…
Here's a link I found to the paper in question: https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nyb... From my quick reading of the paper, Nyborg is arguing that based on Denmark's current immigration and…
This article is currently linking to a link aggregator, the original link is here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/11/google-...
Please don't downmod the parent comment for being racist. Before rurounijones' edit, this answer was probably the most accurate. According to Wikipedia, "In 2011, the NBA was composed of 83 percent non-white players,…
The main way people exchange mouth bacteria is through dating This is not correct. During birth, babies are exposed to their mother's vaginal fluid which then transfers bacteria into the baby's mouth. This transfer…
You are correct, I looked up the original study and found that the picture book and the furry dog were actually the neutral condition toys. The feminine toys were a doll and a red cooking pan. Thank you for pointing…
It's very interesting that you bring up toys as an example, because it turns out there is quite good evidence that gender toy preferences are partially genetic. Think about this: if toy preference is just a social…
It's not irrelevant. Look through the HN guidelines [1]. Articles like this are definitely acceptable. - Hacker News Guidelines - What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes…
I don't think that quote is relevant anymore. pg wrote that in 2009, and both HN and reddit have changed a lot over the past five years. If you asked him what he thinks about that topic today I'm sure he would say…
Even if REEs are more common than their name suggests, with current consumption trends we're going to face massive resource depletion shocks within two decades as crucial industrial elements run out. New Scientist…
This puzzle has been on the XKCD puzzles wiki for several years. They have some very fun puzzles there. It's a huge timewaster, so only click if you have nothing pressing to do.…
I have not read the book in question, but I have read Pinker's previous book The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature. In it, there is a section on the same topic where he argues that our belief that…
Here's a link I found to the paper in question: https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nyb... From my quick reading of the paper, Nyborg is arguing that based on Denmark's current immigration and…
This article is currently linking to a link aggregator, the original link is here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/11/google-...
Please don't downmod the parent comment for being racist. Before rurounijones' edit, this answer was probably the most accurate. According to Wikipedia, "In 2011, the NBA was composed of 83 percent non-white players,…
The main way people exchange mouth bacteria is through dating This is not correct. During birth, babies are exposed to their mother's vaginal fluid which then transfers bacteria into the baby's mouth. This transfer…