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Category Archives: Biology
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
From this 2025 book by smoking hot Cambridge University neuoroscience and politics professor Leor Zmigrod: I believe that we can judge an ideology based on what believing in it does to human bodies and brains; on whether being a passionate … Continue reading
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The Extraordinary Vision Of Aborigines
At 2:40 mark of this interview, philosopher Nathan Cofnas says: “As a visiting high school student at Columbia University which is where I eventually went to get my BA and I took an anthropology class on uh the evolution of … Continue reading
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Everybody wants to change the world
A few years ago, I developed the realization that every form of life wants to transform the world and that these efforts inevitably harm other forms of life, thus creating a war for survival. When I talked about this with … Continue reading
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2nd Edition: Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
Here are some highlights from this 2024 book: * Democrats: Sweaty, disorderly, offhand, imaginative, tolerant, skillful at give – and – take Republicans: Respectable, sober, purposeful, self – righteous, cut – and – dried, boring (Clinton Rossiter) * the left … Continue reading
What’s Normal? Reconciling Biology and Culture
Here are some highlights from this 2016 book by Allan V. Horwitz: * Contemporary developed societies are the safest, healthiest, and most prosperous that have ever existed, so we might expect that their citizens would have low levels of fearfulness. … Continue reading
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Book Review: Charles Murray’s Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Link: We should hope—emphasis on the should—for a discipline of Actual Social Science, whose practitioners strive to report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, with the same passionately dispassionate objectivity they might bring to the study … Continue reading
New York Times Journalist Amy Harmon Vs James Watson
Comments at Steve Sailer: * By the way, if you decide to send out dissenting tweets on this topic, please don’t copy Amy Harmon on them, because she will just use them to write a pity party follow-up article about … Continue reading
NYT: James Watson Won’t Stop Talking About Race
Amy Harmon writes: The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds. It has been more than a decade since James D. Watson, a founder … Continue reading
How Your Politics Can Change Your Physiology
Left-wingers and right-wingers not only see the world differently, as Jonathan Haidt explains, they experience the world different. Much of our political orientation comes from our biology. I wonder if your politics can change your physiology? When I think back … Continue reading
The Welfare Trait
Dr. James Thompson writes about this new book: Adam Perkins is a Lecturer in the Neurobiology of Personality at Kings College, which probably means the old Institute of Psychiatry, world centre of psycho-research, where half an hour in the canteen … Continue reading
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