Friday, February 22, 2008
Belgrade’s Holocaust Memorial - one of several in a city populated by a people famed for their resistance to the Nazis
I am used to reading lies and vitriol about Serbs and Serbia but an article emailed to me today is one of the most racist, hateful and biased articles I have read in a [...]
From Ancient Worlds News:
The Anglo-Saxons who conquered England in the 5th century set up a system of apartheid that enabled them to master and outbreed the native British majority, according to gene research.
In less than 15 generations, more than half of the population in England had the genes of the invaders, investigators say.
“The native Britons [...]
From Discover magazine comes the story of a superb piece of historical detective work, Megadeath in Mexico
“Epidemics followed the Spanish arrival in the New World, but the worst killer may have been a shadowy native‚Äîa killer that could still be out there.”
When Hernando Cortes and his Spanish army of fewer than a thousand men [...]
From The fraud of primitive authenticity
Two billion war deaths would have occurred in the 20th century if modern societies suffered the same casualty rate as primitive peoples, according to anthropologist Lawrence H Keeley, who calculates that two-thirds of them were at war continuously, typically losing half of a percent of its population to war each [...]
In one of the possibly the most important papers of the early century, 60 years of sociological orthodoxy has been destroyed.
From the New Scientist come ” Many human genes evolved recently”.
Human genes involved in metabolism, skin pigmentation, brain function and reproduction have evolved in response to recent environmental changes, according to a new study [...]
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
From Neurodudes:
So, Edge has a new question for 2006 for its All-Stars of Academia to answer: What is your dangerous idea? (Suggested to Edge by Steven Pinker, who perhaps got the idea from a colloquium series at his old haunting grounds.)
Offhand, one might expect a broad range of perceived dangerous ideas, varying by research [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2005
My friend and collaborator Jason Bates has launched a new weblog that will definitely be worth subscribing to or checking regularly.
http://www.canoworms.info
What is it about?
…exploring the assumptions hidden in the way that people do business in the “corporate world”, and investigating ways in which new assumptions can lead to increased performance. It’s about useful lies, [...]
Todd M Huffman has a magnetic sensor inserted into his finger. Now he can “see” fields. More at The Gift of Magnetic Vision.
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
From The Times:
WHAT DOES science teach us about war?
…when different group identities exist, war is the default position. Nature is unkind, so we primates have evolved to be highly suspicious of anything different, and our suspicions will spill over into the instinctive killing of strangers. War is endemic amongst tribal peoples, and Charles Darwin reported [...]
“Despite invasions by Saxons, Romans, Vikings, Normans, and others, the genetic makeup of today’s white Britons is much the same as it was 12,000 ago, a new book claims.
In The Tribes of Britain, archaeologist David Miles says around 80 percent of the genetic characteristics of most white Britons have been passed down from a [...]
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