Implications of The Sexual Attraction Exception
There was a study done over a decade ago by Claud Wedekind in which 44 men wore the same T-shirt for three days, refraining refrained from deodorants and scented soaps so they wouldn’t interfere with...
View ArticleSocially Stunted by Facebook?
I was listening to a presentation being given by futurist David Houle a few days ago. He began to talk about how technology is changing the way that people communicate and work, particularly with the...
View ArticleCould The Story of Cain & Abel Be The Story of The Genocide of Neanderthals?
A couple of years back I read a theory in Charles Pellegrino's book "Ghosts of Vesuvius" that has fascinated me since, that the Biblical story of Cain and Abel is an echo of the genocide of...
View ArticleThe Socialism Paradox
I find myself fascinated how similar people, with similar values, can feel so differently about social engineering. This comes out in political discourse, and certainly is a hot topic today, with...
View ArticleCan Gravitational Lenses Be Focused?
I'm going to step above my (science) pay grade with an idea. Perhaps it is already being worked on and I just have not heard of it - quite likely. And perhaps it can't be done; although it seems to...
View ArticleOn Black Swan Probability and Tail Obesity
For a long while now, having watched bubbles form and pop, I have found it frustrating how people pile into assets with straight line trajectories. I first noticed it in the time of the dot-com bubble...
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