links for 2007-07-11

• American power | The hobbled hegemon | Economist.com
  Its troubles in Iraq have much weakened it; but America is likely to remain the dominant superpower
  (tags: geopolitics military US militaria army navy Britain china Russia politics)
• Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
  Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn’t sexist, and blonds are more attractive.
  (tags: anthropology biology counterintuitive evolutionary_psychology culture health nature Neuroscience psychology personality science sex sexism sexuality sociobiology sociology terrorism women men motivation behaviour education evolution feminism gender)
• Better Dead Than Rude
  Political correctness began as a reasonable adjustment of manners, but as an ideology, it corrupts language and dulls thought.
  (tags: multiculturalism culture Politics race society political_correctness)
• The Origin of Everyday Punctuation Marks.
  Here are the origins of several symbols we use in everyday life.
  (tags: education linguistics writing semiotics semiology symbols symbolism)

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