Assistant Village Idiot

I am not sure I am quite this nice. But as the author seems to have been at least partly on both sides of the Covid debate - too worried abo...

  If you ever take a History of the English Language course, you will encounter this quote early on.  William Jones, a British judge serving...

I listened to the soundtrack last week and then again yesterday, getting all weepy both times.  I had liked Don Quixote, then the Broadway ...

I often wear people out with the introductory material before I even start writing about something.  Hopefully not this time. Going back and...

So, it's already coming in.  I think I had assumed that polygamy was not much accepted yet but might become so, and played out the thoug...

 By Randolph Nesse, MD.   Thanks to Rob Henderson Crespi has assembled evidence that excess dominance of paternal alleles may increase the ...

Reading The Overlong AVI Posts . An introduction to reading these long series I get going on every once in a while.  This won't be neces...

Ah, a clickbait headline.  I don't create many. And even though I am going to go on at excessive length with many links and digressions ...

First, what might be considered the other bookend to monogamy, celibacy and the sort of hyper-monogamous changes in nuptiality that occur pr...

“That’s one of the nice things about being 95 years old.   Very little peer pressure.” George Burns. Relatedly, when asked what his doctor...

"I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is somethin...

This will be the post where I preserve most of the original comments by you. Some will be in the next.  But you might choose to put them any...

I think if anything, dating apps will undermine this, as they will reveal to women here what their market value is. Dr. Reynolds's point...

Razib Khan interviewed Eric Hoel , a neuroscientist at Tufts on a variety of topics, but I thought this would be fun to pass along. Hoel won...