Chris Kavanagh
Cognitive Anthropologist. Researching rituals and cognition at Oxford but living happily in Japan.
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Andy Ngo discusses Antifa attacks with Bret Weinstein | Dark Horse Podcast #1 - Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast
Andy Ngo discusses Antifa attacks with Bret Weinstein | Dark Horse Podcast #1
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Chris Kavanagh
Listened to the first episode of Bret Weinstein’s new podcast, featuring Andy Ngo, and it is gloriously credulous. He might actually be less self aware than Sam Harris.
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Superior: The Return of Race Science: The Mad Science of Race and its Fatal Return: Amazon.co.uk: Angela Saini: 9780008293833: Books
Buy Superior: The Return of Race Science: The Mad Science of Race and its Fatal Return by Angela Saini (ISBN: 9780008293833) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Chris Kavanagh
Am almost done with Angela Saini’s book ‘Superior’ and my overall thoughts are that it’s good and would be beneficial for many to read... but that it also has some significant limitations and contradictory arguments.
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Rudy Giuliani’s Year of Living Dangerously
The Ukraine scandal that's engulfed the Trump White House is the culmination of the former New York City mayor's Eastern European misadventures.
Spot, the Internet’s Wildest 4-Legged Robot, Is Finally Here
A select few can now lease the famous robot, formerly known as SpotMini, from Boston Dynamics. But what exactly is it good for?
The Criminologist Accused of Cooking the Books
An anonymous whistle-blower, a police investigation, and the battle between a professor and his mentor.
My Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Banned
I recently completed a book defending free speech. Emerald Press scheduled it for publication but then decided not to proceed. Here’s what it said about the book in Emerald’s September 2019 catalogue: In Defense of Free Speech: The University as...
Jeremy Corbyn’s lofty neutrality on Brexit
For the UK Labour leader, long-held anti-capitalist ideals trump concerns about party unity over Britain’s exit from the EU.
Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development
In a cross-cultural study of eight diverse societies, House et al. provide evidence that links societal variation in prosociality to the development of a universal psychology for responding to social norms.
#169 — Omens of a Race War - Making Sense with Sam Harris
A Conversation with Kathleen Belew
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Chris Kavanagh
Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) devoting an episode to the white power movement and white supremacy with @kathleen_belew 🤔... let’s see how this goes.
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We Ran Into Andrew Yang At The Airport - FiveThirtyEight Politics
Nate and Galen ran into Andrew Yang waiting for the same return flight from the debate in Houston last week. They asked if he'd record a podcast and he obliged.
Chris Kavanagh
I know Yang is No.2 liberal for very online eejits (next to Tulsi) but he’s just so damn likeable. Worse things could happen than his unexpected success. 🤗
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Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)? - Very Bad Wizards
David and Tamler start out with a discussion of the new Chappelle special and the negative reaction from many critics. Is Chappelle trolling his audience? Has he lost touch with the powerless people he used to champion? Or have critics missed his...
Chris Kavanagh
Didn’t think I’d ever want to hear a philosopher and a psychologist discuss the metaethics of a Netflix comedy special but you live and you learn. Good work @verybadwizards!
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Saturday Night Live Fires New Cast Member Shane Gillis for Using Offensive Language
Comedy, meet cancel culture
Malcolm Gladwell Reaches His Tipping Point
After 20 years, has the author’s formula at last been exhausted?
Simulations, Craters and Lies: Postol’s Latest Attempt to Undermine the Last Vestiges of his Reputation
In the beginning of August 2019, the Tulsi Gabbard campaign published “Reports on Chemical Attacks in Syria”, expressing Gabbard’s views on the allegations of chemical weapons attacks in Syria — and based mainly on the work of Dr. Theodore Postol,...
#228 Alex Mesoudi: Studying Cultural Evolution, Migration And Transmission - The Dissenter
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Chris Kavanagh
Great episode with @amesoudi. Really appreciate his nuanced but clear responses to questions on between group differences and topic of immigration/social change. Nice example of what good evolutionary theorizing sounds like.
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We think there's a big error in that viral article about hedge funds and Brexit
The claim that the number of “short positions” spiked when Boris Johnson became leader of the Conservative party seems to be a misreading of the data.
PewDiePie pulls $50,000 pledge to Jewish anti-hate group after fan backlash
The YouTuber said he ‘didn’t know a lot’ about the ADL
Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers
While the Prime Minister defies the law and insists Britain will leave the European Union on 31 October, his backers stand to make billions out of the disaster.
Is Gov.uk part of a secret Brexit conspiracy?
Is it too much to hope that journalists writing about technology might have some working understanding of it?
Chris Kavanagh
A nice article illustrating why we shouldn't panic over everything we hear just because Cummings and Johnson are involved. They are prats but they are not masterminds of online data manipulation.
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