Ross Douthat introduces The Table: Atlantic Voices in Conversation. I dig the head bob! Very professional.
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You should read Ross Douthat's obnoxious eulogy for Christopher Hitchens just so you can enjoy this magn
I don't mean that as snark. It's a serious question. Suburbanization has to be one of the greatest human influences on the environment.
Bora points to this report about mega shakeups at Scientific American. The editor for nearly a generation, John Rennie, is out.
We've been seeing an amazing amount of press given to something as simple as atheist signs on public transport, and here's another thing that makes the apologists for religion tear their hair out: Russell's teapot. They don't get it.
Are smart guys nearly always fug? What is the percentage of beauty w/ brains?
uhh, a little tasteless because it's irrelevant but (1) relatively attractive people are less numerous (2) probably less likely to be as motivated as a less attractive person to pursue expertise in some topics because of the social effects of attractiveness; hence professors and talking heads tending to be average or less than average in appearance; introversion is a positive quality in intellectual expertise and there's a surplus of it in less attractive people
one might ask then why there's nonsense in the media about more attractive people being smarter and attractiveness being a signal of intelligence. imo, the studies concluding this are misleading; (a) they typically compare the top and bottom cohort in attractiveness which greatly exaggerates the effect and (b) it runs together positive and negative social effects (c) the bottom cohort is much more likely than any other to have physical abnormalities affecting intelligence and socialization that others do not share; (d) in fact, the modest difference after accounting for those other factors is as readily explained by social biases like attractiveness halo causing (unfair) differential investment as some of the other hypotheses about attractiveness being a signal for quality (independent of social biases). Unfortunately most of the people working on this type of research aren't competent so they tend to defer to people like Randy Thornhill who continue to make (sometimes outlandish) claims years after they are falsified (e.g. his 1990 confuses structural abnormality with bilateral symmetry and continues to repeat a non replicated conclusion because of coherence with fitness of bodily symmetry in insect data)
Ugly people tend to be criminals, or criminals tend to be ugly, or good looking people don't have to pay for their crimes. Link.