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  • Re: Are You A Tiny Dragon Of The KKK?

    what is that the ''reverse one-drop'' policy? fyi, sceicen hsa pvoern tath if i splel lkei tsih, msot claer adn nromalyl fnuctoinnig bairns cna sitll esaiyl copemredhn waht is biegn wirtetn. yuro bairn is apaperntyl an eexcptoin to wath is sicetnficlaly dfenied as nrmoal. in truth, the human gnome project was an idiots attempt in ...
    Posted to Politics by Tiny_Dragon on December 16, 2008

  • Vintage Hitchens destroys Gov Palin's remains

    Mr Hitchens warns us of his ire with the 2 year campaign in his 1st sentence which goes far from being soured gastric juices. A manufacturing chemist who works daily with the most toxic compounds will identiy the composition of Mr Hitchins's 1st sentence for us shortly. I wish to be enlightened. Sarah Palin's remains, political & earthly, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on October 28, 2008

  • UV, evolution and survival

    From an evolutionary perspective:We produce a tan (increased melanin) because our vulnerability to UV damage creates an evolutionary disadvantage. This evolutionary disadvantage is so pronounced that in regions with elevated UV exposure (tropical regions), just being able to tan was inadequate, thus, we are born with a built-in tan (dark-skinned ...
    Posted to Explainer by rhyolite on April 8, 2008

  • Re: Race and IQ

    Transboy, I agree there will be Asian, world-class geniuses, in the future. Just not as many per capita, as Europe produces. I think a lot of the reason is biological, but not all. Part of it is definitely cultural. European culture, as Einstein once put it, ''is at the start, based on individualism''. Chinese culture is based on the group. I ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Tim Bitts on November 22, 2007