Thoughts about polymathy
Case in point, i'm taking a break from my reading of an introduction to relativity theory to write this post. I wrote this in a hurry becus i felt in…
Thoughts re. A very short introduction to The Elements (Philip Ball)
What this really means is that the classical elements are familiar representatives of the different physical states that matter can adopt. Earth represents not just soil or rock, but all…
Re. Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational (Ars Technica)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational.ars This surely sounds like one of those dubious psychology experiments. U know the type, the type with a single or perhaps two small experiments that were slightly below p<0.05…
Thoughts about: An Introduction to Language (Fromkin et al)
Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams - An Introduction to Language I thought i better read a linguistics textbook before i start studying it formally. Who wud want to look…
Models of the most recent common ancestor
Check out this discussion i had earlier today. most recent common ancestor To sum up. A paper from 2003 proposed a model to calculate how long ago our most recent…
Minimum virable human population size?
Question from /sci/: what is the smaller number of people necessary (male / female) required to create a stable genictic base for a civilization to grow from? planned breeding programs…
Sweden’s crazy social experiment with gender
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/04/hen_sweden_s_new_gender_neutral_pronoun_causes_controversy_.html Read if u dare. These people are I also predict that this will not change sex-based stereotypes. Men and women are simply different due to genetics (and epigenetics etc.).…
Thoughts about bogus and or pseudoscientific educational/intelligence theories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences Multiple Intelligences, the Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence A Critical Review Inadequate evidence for Multiple Intelligences, Mozart Effect, and Emotional Intelligence Theories The entire issue of that journal seems…
Thoughts about SEP’s Naturalism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/ The term ‘naturalism’ has no very precise meaning in contemporary philosophy. Its current usage derives from debates in America in the first half of the last century. The self-proclaimed…
/lit/ on poetry
OP: Why do authors say things through symbols? Especially people who are good at using the English language, I mean, if they want to say something, if they actually want…