The Ghosts Of The First Neolithic People In A Paleo World
If you lived in Hilazon Tachtit, near the Hilazon river of Israel 12,000 years ago, you might have borne witness to a world first; the earliest known religious ceremony. read...
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Predictor Of Extra-Marital Affairs Among Women Married To Fishermen – Penis Size
The Deadliest Catch details the work travails of Bering Sea crab fishermen, but African wives of fishermen may be having adventures of their own.The authors of a recent paper estimated that up to 60% of men and 50% of women report extra-marital partnerships in their lifetime - and they believe those numbers are under-reported, especially among women, due to cultural constraints. In reality, range...
read moreJesus A Propaganda Campaign? Myth Of The Oppressed Underdog In The Humanities
In the early parts of Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" he spends a great deal of time outlining how both art history (no, really) and his particular brand of religious revisionism are legitimate ... but repressed by Big Religion.In science, we see that all of the time; X says he can invent perpetual motion or has overturned some aspect of medicine or biology and "dogma" keeps it hidden. It's the...
read moreChristians – The Little Discussed ‘Green’ Demographic
When most people think 'green' in America, they think of liberal Democrats. It's a carefully crafted image. Conservatives who deny global warming conserve energy just as much as liberals who accept it but that gets little attention. Sociologists in a new paper instead found that the idea of the 'green' Christian is the environmental trope they need to spend their time debunking. read...
read moreDon’t Go Into Anthropology For The Sex
The social sciences must be a gold mine for single men, right? It’s not as disreputable as the humanities but still has over 70% women-to-men ratios, a solid 2:1 improvement over something like physics, where it’s a big sausage-fest of weird-haired guys yelling about Monte Carlo analyses. If you are a young undergraduate, you are […]
read moreIt’s Jared Diamond Versus The Social Sciences
Jared Diamond is not impressed by modern social sciences, like psychology and anthropology, because of the need to try and make claims about human nature by doing surveys or visiting a place and then framing the results through their own - not to invoke the most overused cliché of 2012 but just this once it fits - motivated reasoning.The reaction from the social sciences and the mainstream media...
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