My vision was very poor from birth. It had numerous adverse consequences. Favorable compensations? A greater reliance on analyzing speech in place of ...
I have zero interest in perfect beings, their existence or their survival. The 'perfect being' is a theological or philosophical concept, and even Jes...
The Lego Nematode connectome is small enough to be copied, but what Caenorhabditis Elegans Legoii is missing are the 959 somatic cells that compose it...
Survival of the fittest, but fittest for what? Perfect body for what role? In proposing that there is a a 'perfect body' out there at the end of the n...
Sensory systems evolved, and brains evolved in tandem. Primitive systems of analyzing signals from eyes, ears, noses, etc. became more complicated, bu...
It seems to me that I read (once upon a time) a statement that the ancients thought that vision was caused by something like a beam of light from the ...
Perhaps your experience with psychiatrists has been unusually bad. What psychiatrists spend most of their time doing is treating garden variety mental...
But isn't this true of many areas of professional work -- including several areas of medicine? After all, physicians treating problems related to obes...
Would that we were so kind. We have come close to letting people die in the streets--literally, not figuratively. There are mentally ill homeless peop...
Of course, survival in academia is difficult; very competitive. The material on which docs and post-docs are expected to be expert is narrow, technica...
Ah ha! A potential customer... Try the latest Vernaculator 7.32, now with 8 more cant and jargon packages with the new Grammar Perverter tool. It's ea...
You have read dumber things than Agustino's proposal. I've sat across the desk from psychiatrists on many occasions, on my own behalf. Some of them we...
Not only not passed the status quo, not even existed! To what extent transsexualism existed before it was conceptualized as a thing (normal or patholo...
Whatever you get, enjoy it. I didn't have space for, and couldn't afford a long couch until the late middle ages. Before that it was a mish--mash of s...
A 3D printer is not making a material substance out of energy. You load the printer with plastic, powdered metal, or a slurry of cells and spray it, l...
The idea of the post-work Star Trek-like society is fantasy, fiction, imaginary, and unreal. Where is my replicator, I want to know? What's in it for ...
If the forest doesn't exist because we are not in it, and a tree falls silently because a human ear is not there to hear it, then how did we come into...
I don't know what the TRUTH is for this family, they don't know what the TRUTH is for themselves, and you don't know, either. Take my own case: Up unt...
The trick is to learn how to put up with what we don't like, and that, objectively, isn't a cause of major problems. Frightened horse, of course, migh...
I'm not sure that people really do fight over the right thing to do, or who is right. Take the parents and child squabbling over which college he will...
Quote of David Sarnoff, who ran RCA (parent of NBC) from 1919 to 1970: "I don't get ulcers, I give them." http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y2QXUDPVreM/VPn3Bz...
Rats! You're right again. Stress Middle English (denoting hardship or force exerted on a person for the purpose of compulsion): shortening of distress...
the gray one isn't a couch, it's a "love seat" and the problem with love seats is that they are not long enough to stretch out on (except for the cat)...
I disagree that boredom is a baseline experience for humans. The baseline is "rest", unstressed quiet. There are many states of excitation, one of whi...
No, it isn't the "bottom of the rung". Rungs do not have tops and bottoms; it's the ladder that has those. What you mean to say is that we have succee...
Without stress, life would not have the structure of noodles that had been boiled past the point of dissolution. Stress, tension, and release is as ne...
How might you be wrong? Let me count the ways... (The count will take quite some time; I'll get back to you when the processing is complete. This may ...
The Normal Distribution will not be mocked. https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/images/normal-distribution-2.gif As you can see, most people cluster in th...
Dear Stupid, Ignorant, and Morally Fucked Up: I appreciate the three of you stopping by. No. "sex" and "gender" have separate meanings. "Sex" is biolo...
Cartoon: Surgeon and woman sitting in consulting room... "I can't make you look young again, but I can make you look like you've had a lot of expensiv...
Except that a penis/balls-bearing transexual male raised as a male or a transexual vagina/ovaries-bearing female raised as a female has to imagine wha...
Dukkha, you are doing the same kind of thing that you think the progressives are doing: projecting some stereotypes which have some validity, (as ster...
Well... just a teensy bit harsh, perhaps. If everyone were gay or transgendered, we would be in deep doo doo. Fortunately for the species' future the ...
Like "Left" has a precise meaning. I find that most of the basic terms that describe common political views have been debased. It isn't just that peop...
Modernism, economics, and secular humanism have done, do, and will do to Islam what they have done to Christianity or most any other religion: They un...
Rather than blame philosophers, we might want to blame English teachers for not teaching students how to write. The unwillingness of many professional...
I feel the European/British unease at a sudden influx of distressed people into Europe. There are a LOT of people in distress around the world and mob...
I want to draw a comparison, and one I know is fetched from afar at this point--the establishment of a federal union among the 13 separate colonies wh...
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