What this really means is that the classical elements are familiar representatives of the different physical states that matter can adopt. Earth represents not just soil or rock, but all…
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational.ars This surely sounds like one of those dubious psychology experiments. U know the type, the type with a single or perhaps two small experiments that were slightly below p<0.05…
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…
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…
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…
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.).…
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…
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…
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…
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…