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Posts from This Journal “evolution” Tag

• QotD: Flow as Primitive

  “The state of flow, like the path that bears its name, is volatile, unpredictable, and all-consuming. Flow feels like the meaning of life for…

• The Problem with Democracy: We are Horny, Greedy and Cruel

  Democracy is based on the belief that people are more good than bad, that we are more curious than controlling, more playful than violent, and more…

• Cheetahs Near Extinction

  Cheetah population crashes, raising threat of extinction The world's cheetah population is crashing, leaving the world's fastest land…

• Creationism Is Not a Theory

  Creationism gets treated by religious people as if it were a viable theoretical alternative to Evolution. They do this in spite of the fact that…

• QotD: Homo sapiens is a veteran at driving extinctions

  The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of…

• The Scientific Method: A Primer

  Among regular people there seems to be precious little understanding of what exactly the method is, and what it does and does not accomplish. This…

• QotD: Bernie is Clueless

  What's distinctive about Sanders is not (or not simply) that he's an ideological purist who refuses to think pragmatically but that he…

• Donohue-Levitt Hypothesis: Legal Abortion --> Less Crime

  This hypothesis may not be as well supported as evolution but there has been a lot of research since the 1970's that supports it. DONOHUE-LEVITT…

• Childless 1

  I'm a 49 year old childless woman. I might have been fertile at one time but I am not anymore. I look at people with children and think they must…