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…
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…
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…
On being right and avoiding being wrong
The two goals: 1) having true beliefs, 2) not having false beliefs may seem to be equivalent or something like that, but they in fact result in different optimal strats.…
Methods for discovering which language is the hardest to learn
Languages differ in how hard they are to learn, they are not just 'different' or some other relativistic nonsense. Aside from intuitve estimates, is there some systematic way to measure…
Re: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain? The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience: 1968 to 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiplegia Paper: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience 1968 to 1996 This is really strange but also interesting!…
Quotes from Nyborg (ed.) The Scientific Study of Human Nature (
The Scientific Study of Human Nature - Helmuth Nuborg ed I had thought about reading this book, but decided against it due to its age (1997). The reasoning is that…
Peer-review again
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/03/no-comments-please-weve-made-it-through-peer-review/ http://www.genomesunzipped.org/2011/07/why-publish-science-in-peer-reviewed-journals.php http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/S4/S13
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