Geoffrey Miller
Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling: amzn.to/2O62gGJ. Evolution, sex, sentience, freedom.
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Michael Shermer with Geoffrey Miller — Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics and Free Speech
In Science Salon # 93 Michael Shermer speaks with evolutionary psychology professor Geoffrey Miller about his book: Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics and Free Speech.
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A blog with a book list for every day. Alternates daily between fiction and nonfiction.
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
Any day now, the government of Bangladesh may become the first country to approve the growing of a variety of yellow rice by farmers known as Golden Rice. If so, this would be a momentous victory in a long and exhausting battle fought by scientists...
Does media exposure relate to the illusion of knowing in the public understanding of climate change? - Xiaodong Yang, Liang Chen, Shirley S. Ho,
By acknowledging that people are cognitive misers, this study proposes that people may rely on the illusion of knowing as cognitive devices for attitudinal or b...
The failed lessons of the London Bridge attack | Coffee House
Some readers have been asking me to comment on the latest London Bridge terrorism incident. And if I have some reluctance it is only because although ennui comes from writing the same article over and…
Why We Strike Again | by Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and Angela Valenzuela
After more than a year of grim scientific projections and growing activism, world leaders and the public alike are increasingly recognizing the severity and urgency of the climate crisis. And yet nothing has been done.
How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip
In 2019 America’s 1% behaved badly—and helped bring about a reckoning with capitalism
DC Films Still Doesn’t Know What To Do With Superman
Why is the Man of Steel so tough to adapt to film?
35 Myths About Human Intelligence
Earlier today I submitted the final text for my upcoming book In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence. It feels good to have it in the hands of my publisher. There is still some work to do, but most of it is work that my publisher...
Hot coiling of custom large diameter spring
Hot coiling of large-diameter rod after electro-galvanization.
Dark energy debate reignited by controversial analysis of supernovae data
Physicists claim cosmic acceleration is just a local artefact, but Nobel laureate disagrees
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Geoffrey Miller
OMG big if true. Cosmic acceleration & dark energy might not exist, according to new data on supernova.
This means our far-future descendents might have access to _vastly_ greater resources & long-term prospects than we thought.
Best news of the year.
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The Yuck Factor: The Powerful Role Disgust Plays In Humanity | Cafe Classroom
Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. Her field of research includes the study of d...
This Thanksgiving, It’s Time to Take On Your Conservative Relatives
Contrary to popular opinion, the holidays are not a time to “navigate” your uncle’s bigoted MAGA jokes. They’re the time to confront him.
Geoffrey Miller
How to lose friends and alienate people: Thanksgiving edition.
A unusually vicious & self-righteous example of this baleful genre.
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The Evolution of Diet
Could eating like our ancestors make us healthier?
Perceptions of married life among single never‐married, single ever‐married, and married adults
With the increasing prevalence of single adults in the United States, perceptions of marriage as the relationship “gold standard” may be diminishing. In this study (N = 6,576), we explored perception...
On the Thanksgiving menu: Turkey, with a side of impeachment
CINCINNATI (AP) — Some people heading to Thanksgiving gatherings predict it’s not just the turkey that will get roasted. Already polarized over Republican Donald Trump’s presidency,...