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  • Simplest Method -- ReGrow New Body

    What an interesting and informative news item, military medical research and development. Of course, it would be best for militaries around the world to ''stand down'' and avoid warfare and destruction of humanity in the first instance, but of course that would be too much to ask of our brilliant minds, spectacular research endeavors, and world ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on April 21, 2008

  • Re: What's best

    I'm sure Senator Clinton had good intentions when she voted for the war in Iraq and extending President Bush's war authority to conduct an pre-emptive strike. There are many kinds of intelligences. Hillary's is hindsight which is 20-20 vision. Barack's is foresight, vision, futuristic.. and it's right on target. I've been a republican for 25 ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Katloverindy on February 25, 2008

  • Re: The End of Natural Selection

    You've described the premise of Mike Judge's 2006 movie Idiocracy.
    Posted to Human Nature by Philip Heckman on December 17, 2007

  • What's wrong with discussing IQ

    The subject line can be read as a statement and as a question. What is wrong about most of the published discussions about IQ is that they jump to conclusions and policy implications without looking a crucial aspects of the research and models of intelligence. For a nice paragraph-length summary of the problem, see Stephen Pinker's new book ...
    Posted to Human Nature by millipede on December 2, 2007

  • Re: Neither Race or IQ Scientifically Valid

    BJ&TheBear: In walks the science: In one of the most extensive of these studies to date, considering 1,056 individuals from 52 human populations, with each individual genotyped for 377 autosomal microsatellite markers, we found that individuals could be partitioned into six main genetic clusters, five of which corresponded to Africa, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on November 29, 2007

  • Rational Racism

    Perhaps Saletan is here founding a new movement (at least a new movement to give an old movement a respectable public face): Rational Racism. I suspect that what resonates as most existentially aggravating about thinking such as Saletan displays here, to those of us it rubs wrong, lies below the threshold of any reified logic: we intuit a ...
    Posted to Human Nature by mcdonald on November 26, 2007

  • Re: how useful [/sarcasm]

    And how close do you think we are to ''performance based meritocracy'' when we have more black men in the United States ending up in prison than in college? Is it just true that they don't naturally have what it takes to succeed in society? Are you suggesting that we medicate/operate because that's where science detects inadequacies? ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 21, 2007

  • Re: The Mismeasure of Man

    That's only if you prize one set of observations over another. In this case, Gould was observing inconsistencies in practice and using the basic scientific practices of today to interrogate the ways in which another era's less technologically-advanced scientists used social bias in order to fill the gaps and make big leaps towards questionable ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 21, 2007

  • how useful [/sarcasm]

    Cheers! to Falonia's comment. My history teacher in the 11th grade told us, in the context of teaching us about the intelligence tests of the Victorian era on down to the late fifties and about racial hierarchy in general, that Filipinos were considered pretty much ''the n-----s of Asia'' among other Asian populations (he was black BTW so he could ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 21, 2007

  • Re: Were the jews this smart before the holocaust?

    I think icemilkcoffee is, in some sense, kidding. S/he's not actually looking for someone to present him/her a list of things that people of Jewish descent have accomplished. Rather, s/h'es pointing out the irony that the Germans used ''lower intelligence'' based on ''IQ tests'' as a justification for their eradication from society.
    Posted to Human Nature by Paula26 on November 19, 2007
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