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Mind Hacks: The Flynn effect is reversing
American Scientist discusses the trend for changes in how well people score on intelligence tests and notes that the Flynn effect, whereby the population has been scoring increasingly well on intelligence tests over time, seems to be slowing down or rever
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Foreign Policy: Think Again: Al Jazeera
It is vilified as a propaganda machine and Osama bin Laden’s mouthpiece. In truth, though, Al Jazeera is as hated in the palaces of Riyadh as it is in the White House. But, as millions of loyal viewers already know, Al Jazeera promotes a level of free s
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“I am here to glorify the Lebanese resistance… Hezbollah. I am here to glorify Syed Hassan Nasrullah” – George Galloway, anti-Semitic rally, London, July 2006
You can see a video of his tirade here.
From Bob Sutton, author of some of my favourite business books comes this:
been pretty obsessed about the difference between smart people and wise people for years. I tried to write a book called “The Attitude of Wisdom” a couple times. And the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act [...]
Liquid Grammar, Liquid Style - CTheory.net
On the East-Asian Way of Using English or Reflections on the “Linguistic Air-Guitar”. Fascinating article on how East Asians use and think in English.
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The Boy Who Sees with Sound : People.com
Blind since age 3, Ben Underwood skateboards, shoots hoops and [...]
Douglas Farah: While Lebanon Boils, Watch Bosnia
There is concern among Bosnian contacts that, if Iran feels things are going badly in Lebanon and that the war needs another front, it would take little to ignite Bosnia. It would not be hard to do and the international presence in Bosnia is greatly reduced. So is the [...]
The war against Israel:
This weekend, as rockets continue to rain down on northern Israel, there is a rash of demonstrations around Britain against Israel. Not against the genocidal warmongers of Syria and Iran, but against their victim, Israel. Not against Hezbollah, whose rockets are tipped with ball bearings in order to murder and maim as [...]
Is the New York Time — the ultra liberal defender of minorities - an anti-Semitic organ against Jews? Here is the charge sheet according to The American Thinker
1) the paper offers support, praise and prizes for people who “indulge in anti-Semitism”;
2) the paper has warned anti-Semitic hate [...]
I am referring to Inaugural Conference on Disease Mongering.
‘Disease-mongering’ is the expansion of the boundaries of disorders, the medicalisation of normal life events and the portrayal of risk factors as diseases.
It is a massive problem that is driven mostly by medical and pharmaceutical marketing.
The conference website is here: http://www.diseasemongering.org
The Public Library of Science has papers [...]