Review: Can we avoid another financial crisis? (Steve Keen)
Last year, I remembered that I think most books are too long. Perhaps one sensible response to this is to favor reading shorter books in general. So I sorted my…
Last year, I remembered that I think most books are too long. Perhaps one sensible response to this is to favor reading shorter books in general. So I sorted my…
By whatever accidents of history, the otherwise obscure German Jewish Karl Marx became an internationally known hero and villain (depending on your view). I was somewhat familiar with his ideas…
Robert Sternberg has licked his wounds and returned to the fray. OK, it was limited to some viral video (2M), but nevertheless. Here's a repost of it: Not really worth…
A friend sent me this study yesterday, so let's cover it here: Taddess, B., Zhang, L., & Trejo, S. (2025). Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black…
I saw this funny and one might say provocative study: Schahbasi, A., Huber, S., & Fieder, M. (2021). Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach. American Journal of Human Biology,…
Going back to Lyman Stone's tweet: in fact, national IQ’s predictiveness of GDP is often very weak within-region, i.e. within-ancestry-groups. measurement error is obviously a plausible part of this, but…
We are finally ready to share our big follow-up to the first Admixture in the Americas project from 2016. Fuerst, J., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2025, December 5). Continental…
Countries (and subnational divisions within some countries) differ quite a bit in how difficult it is to obtain a driver's license. The requirements here parallel those seen for various kinds…
This paper came out a while ago, but I neglected to comment on it. You may recall 5 years ago I forwarded the verbal tilt model of certain behavioral patterns…
There are numerous intervention studies aim at improving cognitive traits. While one can aggregate these in ways that give the appearance of impact, when looked at properly they don't really…