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by tdaxp ~ February 8th, 2011Thanks Lady of tdaxp!
We know can read our Kindle books on our Kindle 3, the iPad Kindle app, and the iPod Touch Kindle App! Awesome!
Archive for February 8th, 2011
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- Test Validity & Teacher Performance (2)
- > Michael: A special report being run in my local newspaper this week. http://www.chieftain.com/ne...
- Group Differences Visualized (9)
- > tdaxp: milltyl, “As an aside, while I have plenty of conservative friends who are ignorant, I have only ever...
- > tdaxp: “why value bigotry” That’s an excellent question to ask. There’s no battles here. This blog...
- > milltyl: I’m just now coming to terms with your backhanded comments towards me. Obviously, I thought enough about...
- > tdaxp: Presumably anything requiring warmth or humidity, that is, anything bacterial.
Pathogenic load reduces... - > Michael: So what diseases would the Rocky Mountains and New England have less of than the others?
- > tdaxp: Five years ago (!) a comment thread on this blog delved into the idea of ‘pathogenic loads’ — it...
- > Michael: I thought the regional one was fun: http://blogs.discovermagazine. com/gnxp/files/2012/04/d4.jpg If I’m...
- > tdaxp: Hey milltyl, I was thinking about addressing the shape as evidence of muliple populations, but figured the weakness...
- > milltyl: Derbyshire’s “advice” is his original column (10a-10i) is terrible and what he wrote about the...
- Zhou Enlai, Josef Stalin, and Other Rightists (8)
- > J. Scott Shipman: Thanks, Dan! I looked at their website and may give it a go.
- > tdaxp: J Scott, 我不可能。我的中文时马马虎虎。特不好。 By far the best way to learn to spoken Chinese is ChinesePod. The podcasts very well...
- > J. Scott Shipman: Dan, You are welcome and thanks for the references! At some point, I intend to do a China quarter. BTW,...
- > Lynn Wheeler: I’ve scanned a lot of letters that my wife’s mother wrote to her mother (from China) … and...
- > tdaxp: Lynn, That’s fascinating. He saw so much in his life. Do you know any good books about the American...
- > tdaxp: J. Scott, Thanks for the kind words! All histories are biased, especially when it comes to protecting one’s...
- > Lynn Wheeler: Recently read Kissinger’s “On China” and “The Man Who Loved China” (which I...
- > J. Scott Shipman: Excellent post! I, too, was disappointed in MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao (her book, Paris 1919, is...
- The Money-Seekers (2)
- > tdaxp: Biz, You’re exactly right. Especially in the elementary school context, the Administration’s hand is...
- > biz: Now, I know teachers unions tend to have their own bizarre set of problems, but there is a benefit to them other than...
- Some Notes on the Development of Our Species (18)
- > tdaxp: A bit ago (cannot find it now) Razib Khan had a piece about contemporary slavemasters in the Saharah forcing their...
- > Michael: The mention, in passing, of slave-taking by the Christians and Muslims reminded me of our earlier discussion and...
- > tdaxp: Epigenitists are always welcome on tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2 007/11/23/the-subtleties-of...
- > biz: Lamarck laughs at your jackassery!
- > tdaxp: Hey ScottJ, I’m a sucker for compliments, so keep them coming. Five years ago we had that thread on this...
- > ScottJ: Very interesting read, you have quite an extensive knowledge about the evolution of the human species, combined...
- > tdaxp: Hey Michael, Re: Gorillas, Wikipedia says 7 million years ago [1] — so perhaps I should have said...
- > Purpleslog: Dan: Why is “Before the Dawn” considered dated?
- > Purpleslog: FYI: Ridley’s “Nature vs Nurture” goes by the name “The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns...
- > Michael: I’m done. Two more thoughts. 1. I’m not sure it’s accurate to say the Chinese leaders reduced...
- > Michael: Haven’t finished it yet, but a couple of things have popped into mind: 1. You’ve mentioned the...
- > Sean Meade: lots of good stuff here, Dan.
- > tdaxp: A good popularization: Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley A good (if dated) popularization on the emergence of man:...
- > jonh: What books do you read in this vein of thinking?
- > tdaxp: Hey jonh, As you no doubt guessed, I didn’t. I also overlooked discussions of how much gene flow it would...
- > jonh: “As the modern populations feature behaviors such as murder, suicide, warfare, terrorism, bisexuality, care...
- > Purpleslog: That was an interesting concise history of humans. I look forward to the followup articles.
- Review of “Fire from the Sun,” by John Derbyshire (4)
- > tdaxp: Eddie, Excellent! I strongly recommend it. It’s very vivid — I find myself thinking about scenes in it...
- > Eddie: Well, I have decided to make it one of two ‘fiction’ books I will read this summer. Thank you for the...
- > tdaxp: O.M.G. http://www.amazon.com/The-Jour neyer-ebook/dp/B003K15EJS/ref= tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m =AG56TWVU5XWC2
- > Purpleslog: Any other recommendations for good/fun/interesting historical fiction from those in the “TDAXP book...
- Some Notes on Class in America (5)
- > tdaxp: Hey Michael, The tweets were a pretty big deal — even Spike Lee was involved in that imbroglio! I generally...
- > Michael: A) I didn’t know about the tweets, Al Sharpton wasn’t the one who arrested him and that arrest and...
- > tdaxp: Hey Larry, It’s hard for me to understand your comment. You split a hair, arguing that ‘worth’...
- > Michael: One problem with your hypothesis: Zimmerman doesn’t have a Spanish last name, doesn’t look...
- > larrydunbar: “The Lumpenproletariat, criminals and rascals who are of no economic value.” First you are wrong...
- Go-Up or Go-Next? (4)
- > tdaxp: Hey Michael, Excellent comment, but I need to double-down on one point. Mass customization /is/ about the...
- > Michael: Was Derbyshire being stupid, or being smarter than when he wrote that piece for Taki? Even when...
- > tdaxp: Wow! I hadn’t seen that… Talk about hitting the nail on the head! Jonh, you’ve done terrible...
- > jonh: Have you seen Derb’s response? http://takimag.com/article/tal king_back_john_derbyshire#axzz 1ruC6meeo I...
- A New People (2)
- > tdaxp: Michael, It’s definitely interesting. I know that light skin color evolved twice (East Asians are pale...
- > Michael: If I read Razib’s article correctly, it’s the C version that codes for higher intelligence. If so, an...
- Educational Achivement in the Context of The Five Heartlands of the United States (17)
- > tdaxp: Michael, Interesting! The use of the term ‘Anglo’ is interesting — I was the only one of my...
- > Michael: Already happened, to a certain extent, in my town. Went to a fund-raising lunch for a cancer patient, yesterday,...
- > larrydunbar: The Dr’s line is similar in thought I had about leverage. You add force at a distance and you end up...
- > tdaxp: Hey Michael, Thanks for the link! I’m reminded of the TPMB’s line that Hispanics are the next Germans...
- > Michael: Food for thought: http://www.pewhispanic.org/201 2/04/04/when-labels-dont-fit-h ispanics-and-their-views-of...
- My Adventures in being a Car Guy (3)
- > tdaxp: Mom & J Scott, thanks!
- > tdaxp: Mom & J Scott, thanks!
- Review of “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance,” by Louis Gerstner (3)
- I-797C, Notice of Action (20)