Ebook: Lakoff – Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Somone requested this. George Lakoff - Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Quote from HoEP
"Some research has explicitly evaluated the effects of phenotypic similarity. DeBruine (2002) tested subjects in a two-stage trust game, where they had an opportunity to win larger rewards but also…
Christopher Badcock on eugenics
"Most importantly, Galton and all other eugenicists prior to the 1970s made the fundamental error of believing that heredity is a means by which nature reproduces organisms. Today we know…
Re: “How To Get Rid Of Unwanted Redirects In Google Search Results”
Link to article. Ever been annoyed by the overly long links one gets when one tries to copy a link from Google? Here is an example: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCoQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stat.gl%2FLinkClick.aspx%3Flink%3DAlkohol%252Fpublika%2B2010%2Balko.pdf%26tabid%3D109%26mid%3D494%26language%3Den-US&rct=j&q=alkoholindtag+pr+land+gr%C3%B8nland&ei=2ffcTZThBIaF-wblnOHJDw&usg=AFQjCNG-ZRltkvhL1RYHjT4uSEJWmmXxVQ&cad=rja These are very…
Roy F. Baumeister – Is There Anything Good About Men?
Caine at FRDB posted a very nice article that I will post here as well for others to enjoy. Do not be fooled by the title. It is very much…
Review: Seth Lerer, Inventing English: A portable history of the language, 2007
It has been some time since I read this book but I got distracted about writing my review of it. Basically, I set out to learn something about the history…
Ars Technica: “Cheaters believe they’re that good, even when they’re not”
Very much reading reading. And of course, the original Dunning–Kruger paper is very much worth reading. It's time to adjust those self-assessments, is it not?
Review: Dick Taverne – The March of Unreason
317 pages. Can be found here. ETA: Apparently, that link got DMCA'd. Here is the book: The.March.of.Unreason.Science.Democracy.and.the.New.Fundamentalism I thought it was an interesting read. It is one long rant against…
Excerpt from David M. Buss – Evoltuionary Psychology
Some science about the inference about sexual interest in the other sex, showing that males infer it much more often than females. David M. Buss - Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology