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…
More on pomo nonsense
http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html - http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Superstition-Academic-Quarrels-Science/dp/0801857074 I cudnt find it online due to the dam copyright trolls. - http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175453315&sr=8-2 Same with this one. - http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-postmodernism.html Noam Chomsky on nonsense pomo. Since no one…
Review of: The Manipulated Man (by Esther Vilar)
Esther Vilar - the_manipulated_man ebook download free pdf It is worth reading becus it gives a much needed breath of fresh air from the usual social constructivist feminism by... being…
The power of sexual selection: Asian eyelid surgery and other stuff women do
I think i may have posted about this before, even so it is worth repeating. I want to showcase the extraordinary power of sexual selection on women's behavior using a…
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