Assistant Village Idiot

And it should. We don't want powers getting along with each other.  The Founding Fathers creted a systm that required a majority rather ...

James had serious questions about the possible HSV-1 influence on IQ, that I linked from Aporia last week. A guest-poster at Cremieux has al...

From Seeds of Science , an article about education, research, and epistemic humility that includes most things that I have been saying about...

I went to my monthly lunch with my friends from St. Paul's Advanced Studies 1970. These are some of the smartest people I have ever know...

 12 Things Everyone Should Know About Their Emotions  A guest post at N3 by Evolutionary Psychologist Rob Kurzban 8. Admiration is for learn...

 White people getting down again.  Always a favorite for me.

My grandfather Carl (upper right) and his brothers in Lower East Pubnico, Nova Scotia, in 1934. His father, Charles Seward Wyman (not pictur...

 The algorithm often feeds you not what they have discerned you like, but what lots of people have liked.  "SNL destroys Trump in Cold ...

I have essay sites I try to keep up with, sometimes reading a post closely, sometimes skimming a few posts. I recommend all of these in gene...

Bethany's old statistics site was "Bad Data, Bad!" a wonderful title. No one wants misbehaving data. The claim is that one can...

 I have been so inundated with posts that I decided to do a links post of my own, with one piece for each of them - Exhibit Asterisk, Razib ...

What I have been saying, from Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche. We have long assumed that how we parent has a large effect on children. Meh. Remembe...

 

How much of "We are hurting, we are struggling, the president (any president) is ruining our lives" boils down to gas prices, whic...