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"The Government" (whichever one we might be suspicious of) is probably not collecting enough information to stop attacks, or for other more nefarious ...
August 18, 2016 at 16:53
You sound disappointed, but lots of books are essentially assemblages of sources. I've been thinking about class, crime, poverty, and race for quite a...
August 18, 2016 at 04:38
If there isn't any useful information on a topic, I just make it up. You'd be surprised how well that works, sometimes. Mostly just joking. Informatio...
August 18, 2016 at 01:00
I think that is either the truth or damned close to it. What limits transplantation is that the placenta has to grow into the wall of the womb. withou...
August 18, 2016 at 00:39
I don't envy their job either. rI feel that they resort to deadly force too quickly -- but they don't have much time in many cases to make a decision....
August 17, 2016 at 22:37
Raw racism isn't the only factor in play here. Cultural divergence is a factor: black culture and white culture are not miles apart, but they are incr...
August 17, 2016 at 22:09
It wasn't only that they had sensitive census information, but the Holorith punched card readers were able to assemble address lists (of Jews) quickly...
August 17, 2016 at 05:19
An individual's sphere of activity simply can't be as private now as it could be even 30 years ago, unless he lived outside of the technological net: ...
August 17, 2016 at 05:15
The one question in philosophy that has engaged me deeply is whether God exists, or not. I was raised in a devout Methodist home, and for the first 40...
August 16, 2016 at 23:10
You are supposing that the arts actually do shape the mind. I'll drink to that; I think there is some proof. But let's define the arts very broadly, a...
August 16, 2016 at 20:10
After we run over the 5, can we back up the trolley and finish off the guy tied up by himself? Or is that against the rules, for some odd reason? It s...
August 16, 2016 at 04:36
Of course you didn't make it up. At least back then they weren't messing around with all this inclusive, opinion-neutral inclusive language bullshit. ...
August 16, 2016 at 04:31
Thanks for noticing. Like most of the slurs cast against Homosexuals, yours is 100% true. The agenda continues, of course. I'm not involved in this pa...
August 16, 2016 at 03:22
Going on rather old memory (30 years back, at least) what Koko's handlers were looking for was combinations of words that were novel. They kept track ...
August 15, 2016 at 22:51
Donald Trump arouses many worries. One of mine is that he would be a very unpredictable loose cannon rolling around the White House -- one that could ...
August 15, 2016 at 04:39
Not many primates have been taught sign language (or some other system) but it seems to be that at least one that had learned did initiate communicati...
August 15, 2016 at 00:57
I think she did better, but her quippy comment is fun, anyway.
August 14, 2016 at 22:49
There is a set of people who distrust authority and/or expertise distrust the government distrust large institutions (like WHO, Abbott Laboratories, P...
August 14, 2016 at 22:43
"If men got pregnant, abortion on demand would be a sacrament." Gloria Steinem.
August 14, 2016 at 22:05
It seems to be the case that lots of people - prenatal and postnatal - are killable if there is sufficient reason. Most people say "killing is wrong" ...
August 14, 2016 at 21:59
"Rules for the Human Zoo" is good, but so is the Bullshit article. The Human Zoo seems especially current, what with the question "Are Trump and Clint...
August 14, 2016 at 16:07
I enjoyed the de Beauvoir interview. Thanks.
August 12, 2016 at 17:07
Possible reason for online interaction being more appealing to some... - online communication eliminates non-verbal aspects of communication - written...
August 11, 2016 at 17:39
GM (Standard Oil, Firestone Rubber, et al) at least a rational business plan: get rid of the mass transit systems and sell more cars. I don't approve,...
August 11, 2016 at 04:26
It's not flattening my gut. Clearly your theory is flawed.
August 11, 2016 at 02:55
Buying something that has value and then wrecking it sounds more like a money toilet than a money laundry. Don't you have to get the money out, in som...
August 11, 2016 at 02:53
The "Longfellow Market" sells groceries in exchange for money. I don't generally use the term "market" to talk about a "store". To me "market" is a ra...
August 11, 2016 at 02:50
I don't see any consistency in our naming. Pluto was a planet until some size queen decided it was too small. Perhaps Jupiter is not a planet because ...
August 09, 2016 at 23:41
It's not too late. Even though the Middle Ages are over, some of the institutions spawned back then are still in business. You can still become a Bene...
August 09, 2016 at 23:10
One theory is that some people are prone to becoming "addicted" to whatever gives them pleasure, be that drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, exercise, porn...
August 09, 2016 at 22:55
Pornography hasn't been understudied. There have been efforts to nail down the effects of sexually explicit, and explicit violent material, for many y...
August 09, 2016 at 20:19
"Life together" is howling in the void? How do you suppose the people of the middle ages carried out their lives, if not by mingling, mixing, socializ...
August 09, 2016 at 19:57
That is rather a lot of transformation to expect in 25 years. Expecting all these things from the Internet is similar to the early high expectations f...
August 09, 2016 at 17:45
Google Ngram will find the frequency of words in its db used between 1800 and 2000 /uploads/resized/files/gx/17zphbnq5n42ztv7.png /uploads/resized/fil...
August 09, 2016 at 02:46
I made an addition or two to the article. Your definition is one that many people would suppose to be the case. But in political discourse, (or traffi...
August 09, 2016 at 02:17
1000 nouns won't get anyone very far; one needs verbs, particularly forms of TO BE and TO HAVE. A dog might know that someone is an individual (has a ...
August 08, 2016 at 20:32
I wasn't being serious about dogs and yoga.
August 08, 2016 at 14:47
I think the mind is a single power composed of cognition, emotion, sensing, memory, imagination, and what flows there from. We can parse out very spec...
August 08, 2016 at 14:45
I might not be heartbroken either, if it turns out that there is no evidence. And in any case, I don't expect ever (well, not in the next 2,000,000 ye...
August 08, 2016 at 03:11
Cities that have experienced enormous growth over the last 50 years generally have meant better living conditions than isolated villages, small towns,...
August 07, 2016 at 21:01
Studies in animal behavior (including emotions, cognition, memory, perceptions, etc.) will either validate your intuition or they won't. Personally, I...
August 07, 2016 at 14:52
Elephants and whales have big brains because they have a lot of body, and the brain runs the body. Voles and sparrows can get along with much less bra...
August 05, 2016 at 06:00
Obvious answer: of course not. Mea culpa. I have not done those things I ought to have done, and when I did do them, I didn't do a very good job of it...
August 04, 2016 at 04:44
We are, to a large extent, as shut out of other animal's minds as we are shut out of each others'. We can only judge other minds by behavior (includin...
August 03, 2016 at 15:04
OK. Take their children away from them first.
August 03, 2016 at 01:46
Maybe they should be required to reside in neighborhoods with high levels of gun violence.
August 02, 2016 at 23:25
"IQ" isn't a precise measurement of intelligence; it's a score produced by various tests. Even if it were precise, what counts in life is performance....
August 02, 2016 at 16:21
Totally agree.
August 01, 2016 at 03:01
Some people think that we should all aspire to a lifestyle of high consumption, and that with cheap and clean energy, there will be enough of everythi...
July 31, 2016 at 19:16
Can "consciousness" even be described by the conscious entity? How do we exteriorize ourselves to our own consciousness so that we can observe it, and...
July 31, 2016 at 05:39