Happy New Year!
by tdaxp ~ January 1st, 2012
May 2012 be a kind year to you and yours!
tdaxp, Ph.D.
High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives
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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)