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…
Thoughts about: Criminology (11th ed., Siegel)
I never got thru the entire book. It is simply too boring, so i lack motivation to continue. However, here are my thoughts about the first ~200 pages, about a…
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