The origins of cold winters theory
Richard Lynn famously spent a few decades collecting data on human intelligence around the world. Eventually, he was able to generate world maps of average intelligence levels by nations and…
Monkeys, climate, intelligence
Anon on Reddit writes me: Hey, Emil! I’ve been a fan of your work for a while now. I respect your effort to give a voice to persecuted research directions.…
Cold winter theory in non-human animals
Disclaimer: I did not read Rushton's seminal book on the topic. I was only first recently able to obtain a complete electronic copy (i.e. not abridged version). I did in…
Scraping: temperature and precipitation data for all NOAA weather stations
Some people claim that the climate has direct causal influences on income, cognitive ability and so on. Usually, these academics just regress IQ on climate variables at the country or…