December 2009
193 posts
Fact: Japan’s public debt is approaching 200% of gross domestic product—by far the largest debt-to-GDP ratio in the industrialized world.
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Erudite people and amateurs alike are making predictions about what will transpire in 2010. Since I don’t want to be left out of the crystal ball game, I’ll be making my own prediction: The music industry is cyclical by nature; genres and musical compositions that were in vogue during the yesteryears always return to dominate modern times. Given the recent success of La Roux’s...
Dec 31st
From Eric Falkenstein's Blog: 'Avatar, Silly,... →
Dec 31st
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A Day In the Internet
Source: Online Education
Dec 31st
What Went To Waste During the Festive Season
Source: Online Education
Dec 31st
Sperm Valuation Quiz: How Much Is Yours Worth? →
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“Fact: 15% of black South Africans live in informal housing or shacks”
Dec 30th
If Africa is to succeed, it has to adopt a culture...
A plethora of theories have been posited to explain the factors that underlie the abject poverty in Africa; a continent in which 315 million people – i.e. one in every two people in Sub Saharan Africa - survive on less than one dollar per day. Some theories, like eugenics, have racist undertones and lie deep within the realms of absurdity. Whilst others, are of little practical use (i.e. they...
Dec 30th
“I hire one-legged men, and I beat the crap out of them”
– George Needham
Dec 30th
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socialsciencevisualized: The moral code in Economics:   …well, if there is one - how does it work? Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: The hidden reasons we think it’s OK to Cheat or Steal. 16min video. ted.com
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“In many cases the market foresees dramatic shifts in the prospects for the...”
– Barton Biggs
Dec 29th
“Dark forces of time and ignorance envelop our future”
– Maynard Keynes
Dec 29th
The Economist's MBA Programme Rankings →
Dec 29th
Tiger Woods's 'Drama's' Cost His Sponsors $12... →
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Statement Issued By The Family of The Nigerian... →
Dec 28th
“Even if severe punishments were successful in diminishing purely domestic...”
– Ali Khan
Dec 28th
“The international legal system has failed to curb ideological terrorism because...”
– Ali Khan
Dec 28th
“Almost all states are vulnerable to revolutionary violence. This form of...”
– Ali Khan
Dec 28th
“The division of the international community into supportive and suppressive...”
– Ali Khan
Dec 28th
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“Although some members of all aggrieved groups commit terrorist acts, not all...”
– Ali Khan
Dec 27th
A Comprehensive Article On the Attempted Aircraft... →
Dec 27th
“Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a...”
– Pericles Funeral Oration, 431 BC
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“A revolution is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the...”
– Samuel Huntington
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“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before...”
– Thucydides
Dec 26th
Xenophobia - What Causes It?
I’ve been maintaining my mental cadence (or intellectual equilibrium) during this holiday season by reading a research paper per day from the fields of Evolutionary Psychology and Evolutionary Biology. Indeed, I’ve found these subjects to be thoroughly riveting, and they’ve helped to shed light on human behaviors, especially the disturbing ones. According to an Evolutionary...
Dec 26th
“First, married men who have achieved reproductive success should have less...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
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2009: A Year of Opportunity →
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“Success isn’t only found in the complex, intellectual achievements. ...”
– David Wurtz
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The Savanna Principle: states that the human brain has difficulty comprehending and dealing with entities and situations that did not exist in the ancestral environment. This difficulty stems from the fact that the human brain, just like any other body part of any other species, is adapted to and designed for the conditions of their evolutionary environment, not necessarily the current environment...
Dec 24th
What's Causing the "Cougar Phenomenon"?
I was reading a paper authored by Messr. Satoshi Kanazawa entitled The Evolutionary Psychology Imagination: Why You Can’t Get A Date On Saturday Night And Why Suicide Bombers Are Muslim, when I encountered the excerpted passage below, which explains the driving forces behind the new Cougar Phenomenon: However, as Daly and Wilson (1988, pp. 140-142) point out, “polygyny is a matter of...
Dec 24th
“One of the strongest predictors of remarriage after divorce is sex; men often...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
Dec 24th
THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: WHY... →
Dec 24th
“Conversely, nurses, social workers and kindergarten teachers with empathic...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
Dec 24th
“Scientists, mathematicians and engineers, who have systematic “male...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
Dec 24th
“Beautiful people are 36 per cent more likely to have a daughter than a son as...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
Dec 24th
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, first question the facts”
– Francis Crick
Dec 24th
A consistent finding in criminology: Criminals are less intelligent than the general population
Dec 24th
“The more desirable the woman is, the more desirable her husband is likely to be,...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
Dec 24th
“Mating among all mammalian species (including humans) is a female choice; it...”
– Satoshi Kanazawa
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