Comment to Women, Fire, Dangerous things
Lakoff, p. 148 “Let us consider a simple example of a presupposition. (a) I regret that Harry left. (b) I don't regret that Harry left. (c) Harry left. Normally, the…
SJ Gould’s “What, if anything, is a zebra?”
SJ Gould What, if anything, is a zebra? It was referencd in the Lakoff book that im reeding. Prety intersting, IMO. Has to do with how we clasify animals into…
Comment to: Lynn B Jorde & Stephen P Wooding – Genetic variation, classification and ‘race’
First reed the original article in Nature. (Alternativ download) It is a sensible article but consider: “In the meantime, ethnicity or race may in some cases provide useful information in…
Review: Richard Lynn – Eugenics: A reassessment, 2001
Given the Wikipedia page, my expectations were pretty low. That turned out to be unnecessary. The book is pretty clearly written and contains a host of useful information about genetics,…
Ebook: Richard Lynn – Eugenics: A reassessment, 2001
Becus this is the next book that i am reeding. Enjoy! Richard Lynn - Eugenics <- scanned and OCR'd PDF, somwat large (14 MB)
Review: David M. Buss – Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
Extreemly long book, beware. It took my multiple months to reed. That is by far the longest it has ever taken me to reed a book. But it was worth…
Review: Ben Goldacre – Bad Science
Recently, i hav been reeding som books on alternativ medicin (the other being Trick or treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial) and sience in general. This is one of them. It…
Ebook: David M. Buss – Evolutionary Psychology: The new science of the mind,
I thot that i had posted it befor, but it cant seem to locate it on my site. David Buss - Evolutionary Psychology-The New Science of the Mind-2007-496p--Evolutionary Psychology, 3rd…
Amitai Shenhav, David G. Rand, and Joshua D. Greene – Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God
Amitai Shenhav, David G. Rand, and Joshua D. Greene - Divine Intuition Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God A very interesting study. Be sure to also check out Greene's website…
Some IQ studys
I red these today and needed an easy way to share them. Enjoy. Christopher Eppig, Corey L. Fincher and Randy Thornhill - Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive…