The Pueblo killing fields
Those noble savages: maybe not so noble after all.
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Fun with statistics
In the course of this article describing a research study on marriage, fidelity, wages, and divorce, Tracy Corrigan makes the following observation: Munsch found that during a six-year period, an average of 3.8 per cent of male partners and 1.4 … Continue reading →
Just call him/her Ol’ Blue Eyes
It seems that all persons with blue eyes are descended from a single common ancestor. Before that moment, which occurred in a lone genetic mutation between six and ten thousand years ago, all human eyes were brown.
Continue reading →Update on Clive Wearing: amnesia, a love story
Some of you may recall a post I wrote in 2005 about Clive Wearing, the man with such profound memory loss that he lived in a single repeating and ever-changing present moment disconnected from those that had gone before. To … Continue reading →
Genetic studies indicate what Jews already knew…
…which is that Jews are more closely related to other Middle Eastern peoples than they are to the natives of the countries they encountered in their millenia of wanderings, and that they are also very closely related to each other: … Continue reading →
Apparently, the MSM coverup of Climategate has worked
Jon A. Krosnick is a professor of communication, political science and psychology at Stanford University. As such, he no doubt knows how to spin a story, and he has done a bit of that in an op-ed he wrote that … Continue reading →
What do gay men and heterosexual women have in common?
They both feel the need to be sexually appealing to men. And this may give them something surprising in common. But it’s not all rosy for heterosexual men, either. Women seem to prefer arrogant guys who engage in risky behavior. … Continue reading →
Babies care
You think babies are just selfish slugs? Think again. According to researcher Paul Bloom (the article is long, but worth reading in its entirety), they have a capacity for empathy, however rudimentary: Human babies, notably, cry more to the cries … Continue reading →
The ozone hole and the law of unintended consequences
Remember that ozone hole and all the brouhaha it engendered? Here’s a piece about the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the hole’s opening, and the circumstances of its more-or-less closing. The cause of the thing appeared to be the … Continue reading →
The oil spill and risk management
The Gulf oil spill is very disturbing in its scope. Not only did it kill eleven people, but it now threatens the huge fishing industry in the region, not to mention wildlife and beaches that are beautiful and drive the … Continue reading →
Academia, Harvard Law School, and freedom of speech
Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, has put another PC nail in the coffin of free speech at that august institution, alma mater of our president. The topic? A private email sent by third year Harvard Law student Stephanie … Continue reading →
Those computer models…
…may have overstated the case with the volcano and its effect on airplanes: Flawed computer models may have exaggerated the effects of an Icelandic volcano eruption that has grounded tens of thousands of flights, stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers … Continue reading →