Ebook collections, some links and thoughts
Some thoughts on the current situation Altho the publishers have recently made it more difficult than it was earlier to get ahold of ebooks, it is still possible. What the…
Geniuses, very high IQ people, science generalism
I recently read this article. Not sure how i found it. Perhaps when doing some research on super-high IQ people (e.g. Christopher Langan who is mentioned in the article). While…
Men, attractiveness ratings and women who look like they are easy to get to bed
A friend of mine mentioned this topic to me. He got it from The Young Turks a youtube news commentary channel. The video is shown below: Actually, i normally kinda…
Chess and intellligence, how does it work?
One wud expect a small to moderate positive correlation, but it is simply not that simple. Abstract Although it is widely acknowledged that chess is the best example of an…
Ebook: Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
A friend of mine 'told' me (by letting the book lie on his table when i came to visit him!) about this book, Fooled by Randomness. If i weren't busy…
Are u very smart and want a free genome sequencing?
... in that case u might want to check out: https://www.cog-genomics.org/volunteer/ Credit goes to infoproc for making me aware of this. It is good to see that someone serious is…
Something about rationality
I recently stumbled upon this profile on OKCupid (her profile, my profile). She is obviously a very bright person and well-read as well. So prominent that i shud have heard…
Acceptance of evo psych claims and evolution – negative correlation?
GeneExpression has brought some interesting data to my knowledge. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/h-allen-orr-most-influential-evolutionary-biologist-of-all-time/ http://www.epjournal.net/blog/2011/05/are-creationists-more-receptive-to-evolutionary-psychology-2/ It seems that people who reject evolution are more likely to accept claims made by evo psych (even…
Thoughts about Diablo 3
I was going to write some criticism of this game. It is not that bad, it's a good game, but Blizzard made so many unforgivable (becus it's Blizzard) mistakes, that…
Duolingo
http://duolingo.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo "Duolingo is a free language-learning website and crowdsourced text translation platform. The service is designed so that as users progress through the lessons, they simultaneously help to translate…
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