Some metafilosofy
From a discussion on Google+ Opening post: Massimo Pigliucci 28. okt. 2012 - Offentlig Philosophy lost its bite, says another physicist who doesn't know what he's talking about. -----------------------------…
Various 23-10-2012
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1761333 Fatherhood by Conscription: Nonconsensual Insemination and the Duty of Child Support Abstract: Nathaniel was a California teenager who became a father in 1995. The mother of Nathaniel’s child was…
Review and thoughts: Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences (Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, 2012)
Richard Lynn was so kind to send me a signed copy of his latest book. i immediately paused the reading of another book to read this one. some comments and…
Some links and quotes
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513898000452 Abstract We recruited two groups of women who differed in their number of lifetime sex partners in order to investigate several hypotheses related to female sociosexuality. Specifically, we…
Thoughts about Ashraf and Galor (2012)
Via Steve Sailer. The Out of Africa Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor Abstract This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that,…
Review of Let’s End Our Literacy Crisis (Bob C. Cleckler)
Let'sEndOurLiteracyCrisis,2ndRev download ebook free This is an okay book about spelling reform. It includes argumentation for why spelling reform is needed. Some useful literature overview and references. Its tone is…
Review: Particle Physics, A very short introduction (Frank Close)
It's pretty decent. I definitely learned a lot of quarks and squarks and other strange entities! Particle Physics - A Very Short Introduction - The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is…
Some quick notes about a more expressive quantification logic
Towardsabetterquantitativelogic (due to formatting) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vN7pFML8N_s8HUMVmpai1rXiP1dLzeB04A9OufssEkI/edit
“The naturalistic fallacy” as used in the science literature…
“It goes without saying that our contention that beautiful people are more intelligent is purely scientific (logical and empirical); it is not a prescription for how to treat or judge…
Review and thoughts about The g Factor (Christopher Brand, 1996)
The-g-Factor-General-Intelligence-and-Its-Implications-Chris-Brand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_g_Factor:_General_Intelligence_and_Its_Implications_%28book%29 The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications is a book by Christopher Brand, a psychologist and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. It was published by John…