Quite a few bloggers have been running their content through this website to get the equivalent of an MPAA rating.
Here's ours:
The rationale for this rating?:
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* drugs (5x)
* death (2x)
* pain (1x)
Well, a blog about drugs and drug safety is going to mention all of these terms. But I was still anticipating a G rating.
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Effects of metabolic rate on protein evolution:
I buried this information between numerous pretty pictures in a yesterday's post, so let me now tell you a little bit more.
Dean Payne said:
Centerwall made his comparisons with and without the major (pop. > 1M)
metropolitan areas. With these areas, I get the same numbers you list.
Without, I get 3.1 for Canadian provinces, and 3.7 for the US states.
I'm sorry, Scott, but thinking you can engage Vox Day in a serious discussion of evolution is an act of hyper-optimistic lunacy.
Death and pain (and danger) are big keywords for these guys. And context is (of course) totally ignored. My blog's danger quotes are all about the government ... those R-rated guys Aelxander Hamilton and David Hume. Add in a couple of refs to deaths and suicide (Salman Rushdie) and the rating jumps to NC-17.