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Through written history, all societies except the most primitive have largely consisted of three classes: Warriors, workers and bullshitters. Yes, I…
Tove K
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The debate whether breastfeeding increases children's IQ or not continues. I'm a bit surprised that people interested in this issue rely so much on…
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We will never agree The local garbage dump is one of my favorite places in the world. I get such a nice feeling of relief when I see my former…
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I have complained a bit about the capabilities of AI on this blog. Time to say something positive about AI too: I really hope AI will help me write…
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Our modern world has given us many technological marvels and solved numerous practical problems. A visitor from 100 or 200 years ago would find many…
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More people should write exactly one book: The one about themselves. People lead very different lives. If everybody capable of writing a book wrote one…
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As far back as I can remember, I felt ambivalent towards evolutionary psychology. On the one hand, it was too difficult to explain away. If we believe…
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The Paris Peace Conference set out with the highest ambitions possible: to achieve eternal peace. Obviously it failed, but what can future peacemakers…
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Scott Alexander tries to make sense of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Been there, done that. And I won't do it again, because I think it is reasonable to…
Tove K
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In six months time it will be exactly 50 years since human beings last set foot on the moon. It will also be 50 years since humans last ventured outside…
Anders L
Evolutionary theory has come up with nice explanations to many phenomena. But there are also a few exceptions. Female breasts are one. No female animals…
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Being more of a r-strategy person myself, one that works hard and reproduces a lot (live fast and die young, if you like), I have never been very…
Tove K
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