Propuestas de crítica social desde la Tercera
Cultura (por oposición a la crítica social tradicional)
|
- Nudismo,
derechos y caprichos - Paro e
inmigración en España: la relación que nadie quiere ver - 3D contra la
crisis: decrecimiento, deflación, desparasitación - España como EXCESO (actualizado) - Buenos ellos,
feas ellas, tontos todos - El cociente
intelectual de los pueblos como principal
determinante de los resultados del Informe PISA - Bonos
de piedra (Greece – Let them eat rocks) - El buenismo tenía un precio (dónde
recortar gastos) - Gráficos que
valen más que mil palabras - Contribución a la estimación del coste REAL del
fascismo lingüístico en España - DEL.ICIO.US conexo Obituarios – (porque la
realidad supera a la ficción) - Distintas falacias: - Razas: - El
tamaño no
-
Un año después (2005) : Descarada
manipulación de las cifras sobre la violencia de género - Varios años después (2009): siguen confundiendo interesadamente
las fluctuaciones estadísticas y la eficacia de sus leyes. - Actualización 2010
(htm): ¡No escarmientan! -
“Europa
necesita a los inmigrantes para sobrevivir” (... para
que a los europeos les retrasen la edad de jubilación al tener que mantener a
tanto parado!) - Véase también ¡Que repriman ellos! - Véase también la Relación paro-inmigración en diversos países - Biofalacias [pdf] - Metabolismo
social de la incertidumbre - El pensamiento
memo de la izquierda y parte de la derecha ( “El
algoritmo progresista” [pdf]) - Algunas ideas para resistir la
presión de un entorno social crecientemente hostil (“Ética
práctica contra una sociedad desquiciada” [pdf]) - Nazionalismos: - Genes, lenguas:
termodinámica - Simetría y
pasividad (a raíz del Manifiesto por la lengua común) - Artículo de Félix
Ovejero. - Resto
arqueológico: Contra los nazionalismos - Otros delirios: - Engendros de la
falacia naturalista (ser/estar como
fundamento de derechos) -
La aberrante Ley
de -Memoria Histórica - Regla
empírica ante el dilema
nuclear (a propósito de Garoña) - La gran tragedia de la disminución de las
ventas de coches - Instrumentalización del elector / consumidor - Diseño y delito: Manifiesto
contra el diseño inhumano -
Laboratorio de ideas (la
verdad, bastante abandonado) - Memología practica - (propuesta de
automatización de la búsqueda de relaciones entre memes
- memética) - Ideotrón – (borrador muy preliminar del
proyecto) - Relacionador de
variables (en Excel, varias decenas de
variables micro y macroeconómicas correspondientes a 20 países
industrializados, así como diversas transformaciones simples (ln, inversas, sqr) y complejas
de esas variables, comparadas para descubrir relaciones insospechadas…
proyecto inacabado) - Deli-linker (para refenciar
tus textos con las palabras clave asociadas a los favoritos de Delicious) |
14 de enero de 2012 -
C3C recomienda: Schumpeter: The dangers of demonology | The Economist Throughout history, moneylenders
have been persecuted. Ethnic minorities—most obviously the Jews in Europe and
America but also the Chinese in Asia—have clustered in the financial sector
first because they were barred from more “respectable” pursuits and later
because success begets success. At times, anti-banking prejudice has acquired
a strong tinge of ethnic hatred. ... In medieval Europe Jews were persecuted
not only because they were not Christians but also because killing them was a
quick way to expunge debts. La primera gran depresión europea · ELPAÍS.com Para los historiadores neomaltusianos las causas de la crisis se encontrarían en
las limitaciones internas del propio crecimiento -demográfico y económico en
general- que había caracterizado a la economía europea en los tres siglos
precedentes, del XI al XIII. Facial recognition software spots family resemblance - tech - 07
December 2011 - New Scientist We found the optimal combination
of six features that can give the highest accuracy," says Fang. The most
predictive features were the darkness and colour of the eyes, the darkness
and colour of the skin, and the distances between the nose and mouth and the
eyes and nose. NewsDaily: WHO "deeply concerned" by mutated birdflu
research When comparing men's and women's
overall personality profiles, which take multiple traits into account, very
large differences between the sexes became apparent, even though differences
look much smaller when each trait is considered separately... The authors
conclude that the true extent of sex differences in human personality has
therefore been consistently underestimated. FuturePundit: Innate Staring Differences
Between Liberals, Conservatives Liberals are Panglossians.
Conservatives expect bad things. Surprise! Gender equality makes everyone better at math! : Starts With
A Bang Go read the paper yourself, and
convince yourself that there are demonstrably far more significant factors
than gender in determining math ability; the data is all in there, along with
other "inherent-gender-ability" hypotheses that are also
discredited. It's time to put this sexist hypothesis for the achievement gap
where it belongs, buried in shame in our past. Do we need a life partner? - FT.com Relationships carry a particular
risk for anyone with a strong vocation, since they demand one of the keys to
success in both life and love: commitment. Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology |
guardian.co.uk "Somebody is saying this is
inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to
be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true." His comments echo
those made last week by Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, who criticised
the rash of cloud computing announcements as "fashion-driven" and
"complete gibberish". "The computer industry is the only
industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. La invención de los "otros" · ELPAÍS.com La invención de lo salvaje. Zoos humanos. Museo Quai Branly. Quai Branly, 37. París. Hasta el 3 de junio. La hipertrofia del presente · ELPAÍS.com A propósito de la retromanía que inunda la cultura popular en los últimos
tiempos las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación han puesto al alcance de un
click toda una serie de sedimentos culturales, el
acceso a los cuales comportaba hasta no hace mucho largos protocolos que
ahora han quedado cortocircuitados. Es decir, que ahora accedemos al pasado
del mismo modo que el forense accede a un cadáver, de manera desnuda, literal
e inmediata, pero sin saber absolutamente nada de quién fue en vida el finado
que estamos diseccionando en la mesa de mezclas. Psychological Bulletin , vol 135, p 94 Studies back up our everyday experience
that a period of incubation can lead you to the eventual "aha"
moment. Don't switch off entirely, though. For verbal problems, a break from
the clue seems to be more fruitful if you occupy yourself with another task,
such as drawing a picture or reading Study: How African Americans Adapted New research on the genomes of
African Americans has revealed evidence of natural selection that began with
ancestors' adaptations to the harsh conditions in Nap-deprived tots may be missing out on more than sleep: study The Hidden World of Ants § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM El efecto de las horas de
estudio en las notas universitarias — Nada es Gratis ¿Te leo la mano?, de Pablo Brañas Garza — Nada es Gratis La cantidad de testosterona recibida
tiene un efecto en el desarrollo del dedo 4 mientras que los estrógenos
afectan el crecimiento del D2 Nacer a final de año influye en las notas · ELPAÍS.com El Instituto Vasco de Evaluación e
Investigación Educativa (ISEI-IVEI) ha constatado que el 15% de los nacidos
de enero a marzo ha repetido en Euskadi algún curso
al llegar a 2º de ESO (14-15 años), frente al 25% de los alumnos del último
trimestre. Another Earth?: Home
away from home | The Economist since the uncertainties around the
question of whether life exists elsewhere will cease to be astronomical (how
many suitable planets are there?) and become purely biological (how easy is
it for life to get going, and how easy is it for it to become intelligent?) Books of the Year:
Page-turners | The Economist Social media in the
16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist Domestic labour: The
servant problem | The Economist Sex and advertising:
Retail therapy | The Economist Dichter understood that
every product has an image, even a “soul”, and is bought not merely for the
purpose it serves but for the values it seems to embody. Schumpeter: Big and
clever | The Economist Politicians should certainly stop
demonising big firms and sentimentalising small ones: an economy needs both. Buttonwood: Not in
front of the servants | The Economist One can see a similar attitude in
the debate about Free will and the
brain: Self interest | The Economist Mr Gazzaniga
appeals, not wholly convincingly, to quantum mechanics and complexity to
provide escape routes from the conclusion that, because the body is a biochemical
system, what happens in the mind is physically determined. Economics blogs: A less dismal debate | The Economist whatever you think about
the impact of blogging on political, scientific or
religious debate, it is hard to argue that the internet has cheapened the
global conversation about economics. On the contrary, it has improved it. Foreign languages:
The gift of tongues | The Economist “It’s rare that you have an
interesting conversation in English. Why do I think it would be any better in
another language?” ... Hyperpolyglots
may begin with talent, but they aren’t geniuses. They simply enjoy tasks that
are drudgery to normal people. The talent and enjoyment drive a virtuous
cycle that pushes them to feats others simply shake their heads at,
admiration mixed with no small amount of incomprehension. Flu research: A deadly balance | The Economist the flu had gone
airborne. The nasty strain had five mutations in two genes. Each of these
has, Dr Fouchier notes, already been found in
nature, only in separate strains and never clumped together. Schumpeter: Too much buzz | The Economist the data deluge is
expected to grow more than 40 times by 2020. Heterodox economics:
Marginal revolutionaries | The Economist neo-chartalists
Market monetarists Modern Monetary Theory The Money Illusion Scott Sumner
Tyler Cowen “nominal” GDP (NGDP) Krugman Mosler Mises Institute Ludwig
von Mises Austrians Brad DeLong What Does it Mean to Be 'Middle
Class'? The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades' - James Fallows - International -
The Atlantic A Japan-based research team found
that if they placed bits of food (oat flakes) around a central Physarum in the same location as 36 outlying cities
around Tokyo, the mold created a network connecting
the food sources that looked rather like the existing rail system. And when
comparable "topographical barriers" were introduced onto the
experimental plane, the links were even more similar. Exceptional longevity is associated with decreased reproduction -
AGING Journal The lower number of children in
both genders together with the pattern of delayed reproductive maturity is
suggestive of constitutional factors that might enhance human life span at
the expense of reduced reproductive ability. Largest Fastest
Smartest - Animals In praise of
particle physics: Higgs ahoy! | The Economist One of the most extraordinary
things about the universe is this predictability—that it is possible to write
down equations which describe what is seen, and extrapolate from them to the
unseen. So, at a time when the future of human affairs seems particularly
uncertain, a Christmas toast to the predictability of physics. Graphic: How exchange rates could collapse after a Euro break-up -
Telegraph This Is Our Vote For
CHART OF THE YEAR Could This Be The End Of Cancer? - The Daily Beast Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine Another measure of intelligence: you
can count neurons. The common octopus has about 130 million of them in its
brain. A human has 100 billion. But this is where things get weird.
Three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its
arms....Researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away
on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it—and tries to pass
it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body. Jailbreak Rat: Selfless Rodents Spring Their Pals and Share Their
Sweets: Scientific American Jesús Mosterín: La enorme pasión por saber - RTVE.es 'Contagion' depicts realistic viral chaos | The Daily Texan “Contagion,” while definitely
science fiction, has enough scientific fact behind
it to address genuine issues and suggest a very real and scary possibility.
“The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic turned out to be relatively mild, and,
consequently, the general public and funding agencies may have lost sight of
the importance of pandemic preparedness,” Maintaining the peace via immune system dynamics | Santa Fe Institute To investigate the relative
merits of policing versus pacifying aggression, the scientists used
mathematical models inspired by the dynamics of immune system T and B cells.
The models showed that policing, which is similar, roughly speaking, to T
cells directly attacking contagions, was the far more efficient strategy for
containing aggression. A better way to value the future | Santa Fe Institute when you don't know
how the economy is going to change, hyperbolic discounting makes better
mathematical sense than exponential discounting, particularly for far-future
events. Destabilizing effects of class structure could have driven its global
spread | Santa Fe Institute La solución del 70% · ELPAÍS.com Los superricos
controlan y disponen de tantos recursos que realmente están saciados;
aumentar o disminuir su riqueza no afecta su felicidad. Por tanto, sin
importar cómo ponderemos su felicidad en relación con la de los demás -ya los
consideramos loables industriales que merecen sus encumbradas posiciones o
ladrones parásitos-, sencillamente, no podemos hacer nada que la afecte a
través de aumentos o disminuciones de sus impuestos.... La consecuencia
inevitable de este argumento es que cuando calculamos la tasa impositiva para
los superricos no debemos considerar el efecto de
los cambios sobre su felicidad, ya que sabemos que es cero. Por el contrario,
la cuestión central debe ser el efecto de un cambio en sus tasas impositivas
sobre el bienestar del resto de nosotros. Inflation After A Eurozone Breakup Maternal care influences brain chemistry into adulthood, animal study
shows intensive maternal care
during infancy promotes the effect of NPY in the brain. FuturePundit: Creative People More Likely To
Cheat If you need to trust people in a
job then hire the least imaginative. Creative people are more likely to cheat
for money when they are deceived into thinking they can get away with it. Un paso hacia la «píldora de la memoria» - ABC.es Encontraron que cuando se inhibe la
molécula PKR, el aumento de actividad sináptica (la comunicación entre
neuronas) es producida por el interferón gamma, otra molécula relacionada con
el sistema inmunitario. «Los resultados muestran que dos moléculas conocidas
por su papel en el sistema inmunológico regulan el tipo de actividad cerebral
que conduce a la formación de la memoria a largo plazo en el cerebro adulto» Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic IQ Scores of Blacks and Whites
Regress toward the Averages of Their Race. Parents pass on only some
exceptional genes to offspring so parents with very high IQs tend to have
more average children. Black and White children with parents of IQ 115 move
to different averages--Blacks toward 85 and Whites to 100.... Race
Differences in Other "Life-History" Traits. East Asians and Blacks
consistently fall at two ends of a continuum with Whites intermediate on 60
measures of maturation, personality, reproduction, and social organization.
For example, Black children sit, crawl, walk, and put on their clothes
earlier than Whites or East Asians. Disparities in
cognitive functioning... [Environ Health Perspect.
2004] - PubMed - NCBI African Americans had test scores
that averaged 0.43 standard deviation lower than
those for whites across all neurobehavioral tests. These differences were
present in all cognitive domains, including tests that would not be
characterized as susceptible to differential item functioning by
race/ethnicity, suggesting that the results are not due to race/ethnicity-associated
measurement error. El «proyecto estrella» de digitalizar la Audiencia Nacional sume a
Justicia en el caos - ABC.es El siglo XXV: una hipótesis de lectura · ELPAÍS.com Are children with
myopia more intelligen...
[Ann Acad Med Stetin.
2008] - PubMed - NCBI Myopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The prevalence of myopia has been
reported as high as 70–90% in some Asian countries, 30–40% in The Association Between Hypermetropia and
Essential Hypertension There is a strong association of
essential arterial hypertension with hypermetropia,
which has not been previously reported. Given the findings of this study, we
recommend that patients who have hypermetropia and
have had no recent systemic examination should at least have their blood
pressure checked. Ten greatest econophysicists of all time | Econophysics
Forum Descubren una variante del virus de la gripe aviar contagiosa y mortal
para el ser humano - ABC.es la primera mala idea
es que los científicos se dediquen a manipular un virus letal para que además
sea altamente contagioso. Y la segunda es publicar cómo lo han hecho para que
otros puedan copiarlo Estado de excepción económica permanente · ELPAÍS.com n la Roma clásica,
el Senado contaba entre sus atribuciones la de nombrar a un dictador para
hacer frente a dificultades extraordinarias, como era el caso de la guerra.
Se entendía como una medida de excepción vinculada a la situación que debía
resolver la dictadura, tras la que el propio sistema político preveía el
regreso a la normalidad. CreativityMechanisms.pdf (application/pdf Object) students with low IQ
consistently performed poorly on these tests, but for the students with high
IQ, their performance on creativity tests did not highly correlate with their
IQ. After reviewing the relationship between intelligence and creativity Vuelve el despotismo ilustrado a Europa - ABC.es El despotismo ilustrado de hecho ya
hace mucho tiempo que forma parte de nuestras vidas. El BCE, la Comisión
Europea o el FMI son instituciones que mandan bastante más que muchos
ministerios nacionales. Toda la construcción europea tiene un inconfundible
sello de ilustración dieciochesca. Clive Thompson on the Problem With Online Ads | Magazine I predict that in 2050, we’ll look
back at the first 20 years of the web and shake our heads. The craptacular design! The hallucinogenic business models!
The privacy nightmares! All because entrepreneurs convinced themselves that
they couldn’t do what inventors have done for centuries: Charge people a fair
price for things they want. Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts Finally... Los niños orientales suben la nota · ELPAÍS.com "Les preguntamos y parece ser
que recibir la primera instrucción en conceptos abstractos a través del ábaco
tiene efectos milagrosos." >> ESTÚPIDOS, las tonterías que llegan
a decir con tal de no reconocer que la inteligencia depende de la raza.!!! Gene Expression: Intelligence and Self-Deception? Herman Daly « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Rethinking Growth § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM Seed:What would you say is the just and
proper range, the limit to inequality? If you look around at various
institutions such as the government, the military, or universities, they have
a factor of around 20 between the richest and the poorest. In US corporations
it’s 500 or more. I think you could probably reward all real differences of
contribution within a range of 25. But let’s just start with a factor 100,
get some experience, and work down. FuturePundit: Researchers Find Woman With
Extremely Good Memory FuturePundit: Teeth Cleaning Cuts Heart,
Stroke Risks? Among more than 100,000 people,
those who had their teeth scraped and cleaned (tooth scaling) by a dentist or
dental hygienist had a 24 percent lower risk of heart attack and 13 percent
lower risk of stroke compared to those who had never had a dental cleaning.
The participants were followed for an average of seven years. FuturePundit: Oxytocin
Receptor Variant Boosts Empathy Out of the 10 people who were
marked by the neutral observer as "most prosocial,
six carried the GG genotype associated with the oxytocin
receptor; of the 10 people who were marked as "least trusted," nine
were carriers of the A version of the gene. The people carrying an A version
of the gene were viewed as less kind, trustworthy and caring toward their
partners in the video. Fundamental physics:
Big bang | The Economist Economics focus:
Pulling for the home team | The Economist Financial markets:
Greece lightning | The Economist Deceit and
self-deception: Suspicious minds | The Economist Japan’s economy:
Whose lost decade? | The Economist Yet if judged by growth in GDP
per person over the same period, then The market for state
territory: Pass the hemlock | The Economist Territorial swaps for cash seem
unthinkable today. But they were once common, especially when European powers
were jostling for land in the La cultura del atardecer · ELPAÍS.com Mientras el sistema educativo no se
transforme radicalmente en no pocos aspectos, reducir sus presupuestos es mucho
menos grave que reducir los presupuestos de la sanidad.... El binomio
"sanidad" y "educación" que se presentan como los dos
grandes pilares del Estado de bienestar deben ser examinadas en su realidad
nacional exacta y, a continuación, graduar los lamentos destinados a uno y
otro. "¿Cómo es posible que funcione el sistema si no hay
consumidores?" · ELPAÍS.com The Trilemma of International Finance -
NYTimes.com It stems from the fact that, in
most nations, economic policy makers would like to achieve these three goals:
- Make the country’s economy open to international flows of capital. - Use
monetary policy as a tool to help stabilize the economy. - Maintain stability
in the currency exchange rate. But here’s the rub: You can’t get all three. Münchhausen Trilemma - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia Volatile Markets Can Damage Your
Health - CNBC Reading the brain: Mind-goggling
| The Economist There is another
kind of mind-reading, too: determining, by scanning the brain, what someone
is actually thinking about. This sort of mind-reading is less advanced than
the machine-controlling type, but it is coming, as three recently published
papers make clear. One is an attempt to study dreaming. A second can
reconstruct a moving image of what an observer is looking at. And a third can
tell what someone is thinking about. Human decision-making: Not so smart now | The
Economist Its awkward
title refers to Mr Kahneman’s
two-tier model of cognition: “System 1” is quick, intuitive and responsible
for the quirks and mistakes described above (and many others). “System 2”, by
contrast, is slow, deliberative and less prone to error. System 2 kicks in
when we are faced with particularly complex problems, but much of the time it
is all too happy to let the impulsive System 1 get its way. If The Economist
had reported that racial intermarriage was white women’s greatest taboo, that
some white women find non-white men unattractive, that others fear their
children would not be white enough and that it was common for them to view
intermarriage as a betrayal of their race, such views would be utterly condemned.
If a white woman said that she would have to turn in her white heart to marry
out of her race, she would be called a racist. But isn’t this double standard
itself racist? Both studies
found that rapid gene expression during fetal development abruptly switches
to much slower rates after birth that gradually decline and eventually level
off in middle age. These rates surge again as the brain ages in the last
decades, mirroring rates seen in childhood and adolescence, according to one
of the studies. Brain imaging reveals why we
remain optimistic in the face of reality people who are very
optimistic about the outcome of events tend to learn only from information
that reinforces their rose-tinted view of the world. This is related to
'faulty' function of their frontal lobes. Number of Facebook
friends linked to size of brain regions, study suggests Young genes correlated with
evolution of human brain "Traditionally,
people don't believe that a new protein or new gene can play any role in an
important process. Most people only pay attention to the regulation of
genes," Long said. "But out of a total of about 1,300 new genes,
only 13 percent were involved in new regulation. The rest, some 1,100 genes,
are new genes that bring a whole new type of function. Teenage Brains - Pictures, More
From National Geographic Magazine This process of
maturation, once thought to be largely finished by elementary school,
continues throughout adolescence. Imaging work done since the 1990s shows
that these physical changes move in a slow wave from the brain's rear to its
front, from areas close to the brain stem that look after older and more
behaviorally basic functions, such as vision, movement, and fundamental
processing, to the evolutionarily newer and more complicated thinking areas
up front. The Beautiful Brain | Art and
Science of the Human Mind : The Beautiful Brain Personality and political views at
The Thinking Meat Project Previous work
had indicated that a conservative political outlook was negatively correlated
with Openness/Intellect and positively correlated with Conscientiousness. The
current work adds a little nuance: the negative correlation between
conservatism and Openness/Intellect still holds, and a positive correlation
between Orderliness (rather than overall Conscientiousness) was found.
Furthermore, a liberal/egalitarian outlook was linked to higher levels of
Compassion and a conservative/traditional outlook with higher levels of
Politeness. The genetics of happiness: Transporter of
delight | The Economist Serotonin is involved
in mood regulation. Serotonin transporters are crucial to this job. The
serotonin-transporter gene comes in two functional variants—long and short.
The long one produces more transporter-protein molecules than the short one.
People have two versions (known as alleles) of each gene, one from each
parent. So some have two short alleles, some have two long ones, and the rest
have one of each. --- those with one long allele
were 8% more likely than those with none to describe themselves as very
satisfied; those with two long alleles were 17% more likely. --- On average,
the Asian Americans in the sample had 0.69 long genes, the black Americans
had 1.47 and the white Americans had 1.12. --- a
positive correlation between higher levels of the short version of the gene
and mood disorders ( Sobre la división de impotencias · ELPAÍS.com La pretensión
poética de tanto filósofo cuya obra parece obsesionada por la invención de un
estilo artístico más aún que de un juicio recto; la pretensión crítica de
tanto artista que expone sus obras como juicios morales, filosóficos, ideológicos
o benevolentes, confunde los dos órdenes en uno que no cumple ni con la
creación angélica ni con la interpretación salvadora del sentido. Moral philosophy: Goodness has
nothing to do with it | The Economist One of the
classic techniques used to measure a person’s willingness to behave in a
utilitarian way is known as trolleyology. --- round 90% of people refuse the utilitarian act of killing
one individual to save five. What no one had previously inquired about,
though, was the nature of the remaining 10%. --- Dr Bartels and Dr Pizarro
then correlated the results from the trolleyology
with those from the personality tests. They found a strong link between
utilitarian answers to moral dilemmas (push the fat guy off the bridge) and
personalities that were psychopathic, Machiavellian or tended to view life as
meaningless. --- Crafting legislation....inevitably involves riding roughshod
over someone’s interests. Utilitarianism provides a plausible framework for
deciding who should get trampled. The results obtained by Dr Bartels and Dr
Pizarro do, though, raise questions about the type of people who you want
making the laws. Psychopathic, Machiavellian misanthropes? Apparently, yes. Padres e hijas — Nada es Gratis Tener una hija
aumenta la probabilidad de votar a un partido de centro-izquierda. La
magnitud del efecto es de unos dos puntos porcentuales por cada hija adicional.
Por el contrario, tener un hijo varón aumenta la posibilidad de votar a un
partido de derechas. FuturePundit: Men Suffer More From
Relationships Gone Bad? The researchers
argue that women have more non-romantic relationships to fall back on that
make break-ups easier on them. But I suspect the evolutionary roles of men
and women also account for part of the difference seen here. Men pursue
women. Women choose. A woman who knows she'll get to make choices among
future suitors can afford to feel less is at stake if the current
relationship doesn't last. FuturePundit: Brain Sex Differences Archives The rare genetic
condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) boosts androgen hormone
exposure in the womb. Women with CAH have stronger interest in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers than women who have
normal hormone levels. CAH does not appear to influence male career
interests. FuturePundit: Exercise Increases Mitochondria
In Brain Cells regular exercise
also increases mitochondrial numbers in brain cells, a potential cause for
exercise’s beneficial mental effects Why aren’t mainstream conservatives
racialist? Curbing the Appetites of Women There exists
[and can be consulted on pages in the Annex of the original article ] proof that
the high-crime, low- achieving areas of society are those with the greatest
numbers of families headed by women and that the low-crime, high-achieving
groups in society are those with stable, patriarchal families--that the
feminist/sexual revolution and its attempt to impose a social organization
based on female kinship is a failure and that it is necessary to return to a
social organization based on male kinship. Phys. Rev. E 84, 011130 (2011):
Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities We show how the
prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a
small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents who consistently
proselytize the opposing opinion and are immune to influence. Specifically,
we show that when the committed fraction grows beyond a critical value pc≈10%,
there is a dramatic decrease in the time Tc taken
for the entire population to adopt the committed opinion. Filosofía: una comunidad inexistente · ELPAÍS.com Entre filósofos no
existen ni las revistas de referencia que sancionan de forma irreversible lo
que debe ser considerado un avance de la disciplina, ni los libros de texto
universalmente aceptados que sirven para formar a los futuros miembros de una
comunidad Willpower — By Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney — Book Review - NYTimes.com Together with
intelligence, self-control turns out to be the best predictor of a successful
and satisfying life. But Baumeister and Tierney
aren’t endorsing a return to a preachy puritanism
in which people are enjoined to resist temptation by sheer force of will and
condemned as morally irresolute when they fail. The “will” in willpower is
not some mysterious “free will,” a ghost in the machine that can do as it
pleases, but a part of the machine itself. Willpower consists of circuitry in
the brain that runs on glucose, has a limited capacity and operates by rules
that scientists can reverse-engineer — The g-factor of
international cognitive ability comparisons: the homogeneity of results in Why Is Average IQ Higher in Some
Places?: Scientific American So far, the
evidence suggests that infectious disease is a primary cause of the global variation
in human intelligence. Since this is a developmental cause, rather than a
genetic one, it’s good news for anyone who is
interested in reducing global inequality associated with IQ. If the primary
factors were genetic, as some have suggested, IQ would be very difficult to
change. Bacteria and behaviour:
Gut instinct | The Economist the bacterially
boosted mice ventured out into the open twice as often as the control mice,
which they interpreted to mean that these rodents were more confident and
less anxious than those not fed Lactobacillus. Forensic psychology: Backwards and
forwards | The Economist psychologists working with
the police often advocate asking witnesses of crimes to say what they saw in
reverse order, to stop them making things up to help the story run smoothly.
It sounds like sensible advice, and police forces in Australia, Britain, New
Zealand, Norway, Spain and Sweden have all adopted it. But a new study
suggests that far from improving recall, it makes things worse. Que el político no decida por mí a ciegas ·
ELPAÍS.com Los 'think tank' piden paso en
España, país poco dado a consultar y pagar a los sabios para gestionar con
visión de futuro Climate science (I): Seasons of
discontent | The Economist Poor
harvests—which Niños often cause—might make
recruiting rebels cheaper, as there is a slacker labour
market. They might heighten tensions between people in cities and those in
the countryside. They might reduce the ability of governments to buy off trouble.
And hotter weather may make some sorts of fighting more likely. In baseball
it has been found that if one team’s pitcher hits a batter with the ball, the
likelihood of the other team’s pitcher retaliating in kind goes up with the
temperature. Ramping up retaliation like this is a good way of increasing the
chances of strife. Los humanos están de moda · ELPAÍS.com Out of Africa? Races are more
different than previously thought : Euro-Synergies Economics focus: Don't look down |
The Economist The authors ran
a series of experiments where students were randomly allotted sums of money,
separated by $1, and informed about the “income distribution” that resulted.
They were then given another $2, which they could give either to the person
directly above or below them in the distribution. In keeping with the notion
of “last-place aversion”, the people who were a spot away from the bottom
were the most likely to give the money to the person above them: rewarding
the “rich” but ensuring that someone remained poorer than themselves. Those
not at risk of becoming the poorest did not seem to mind falling a notch in
the distribution of income nearly as much. This idea is backed up by survey
data from America collected by Pew, a polling company: those who earned just
a bit more than the minimum wage were the most resistant to increasing it.
Poverty may be miserable. But being able to feel a bit better-off than
someone else makes it a bit more bearable. Genes account for 50% of classroom
performance. | I on the world’s Weblog genetic influences
appear to have largely generalist effects across diverse cognitive and
academic abilities [18], [19]. For example, the average genetic correlation
(an index of the degree to which genetic influences on one trait also
influence another trait) between diverse cognitive and academic domains was
0.70 in a recent review. diagnóstico y reforma educación general en España.pdf (application/pdf Objeto) http://www.mankindquarterly.org/summer2011_ellis_he.html Findings call
into question the relevance of ethnocentrism in determining the choice of
fashion models used in advertising, and are instead consistent with other
evidence of universal standards of physical beauty that advertisers rely on
to help promote their products. The evolution of generosity:
Welcome, stranger | The Economist No need, then,
for special mechanisms to explain generosity. An open hand to the stranger
makes evolutionary as well as moral sense. Except, of course,
that those two senses are probably, biologically speaking, the same
thing. Steve Sailer's
iSteve Blog: Leftist
eugenics Science: The looming crisis in
human genetics | The Economist The new genetics
will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more
than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic
differences between classes, ethnicities and races. FuturePundit: Brain Genetics Archives FuturePundit: Parental Fighting Overrated As
Child Behavior Problem A study on twins
and their offspring provides another chunk of evidence that the effect of
environment has been overrated. The parents fight because it is in their
genes to do so and so their kids behave poorly due to the same genes. Kill all known germs | European Crop
Protection Association The real tragedy
of the E. coli incident in Germany is that the outbreak could have been
prevented if the organic industry had been willing to irradiate their
produce. The bean sprout crop that was the source of the outbreak requires
warm and humid environment to grow, which increases the risk of contamination
by E. coli and other disease-causing bacteria. The only certain means of
reducing this risk is to irradiate the bean sprout seeds, which effectively
kills 99.999 per cent of E. coli. There is no evidence that food irradiation
is harmful to consumers, and also no evidence that it affects the nutritional
quality of food. Despite these facts, the organic industry continues to lobby
against the use of irradiation. Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast
forward - life - 27 June 2011 - New Scientist Yet changing
even a handful of genes takes huge amounts of time and money. For instance, a yeast engineered to churn out the antimalarial
drug artemisinin has been hailed as one of the
great success stories of synthetic biology. However, it took 150 person-years
and cost $25 million to add or tweak around a dozen genes - and commercial
production has yet to begin. LeTemps.ch | La sensibilité à l’alcool,
aussi dans les gènes Los repetidores quedan por detrás del nivel de
sus nuevos compañeros · ELPAÍS.com Y las diferencias
entre los mejores y los peores alumnos no las marca la comunidad donde viven,
ni siquiera el centro en el que estudian. Es más fácil buscarlas por el nivel
económico de cada casa, que es lo mismo que decir, por el número de libros
que hay en ella o los estudios de los padres. En las clases medias y altas
estarán también los alumnos con más expectativas académicas y los que menos
repiten. Y estos dos factores influyen mucho en sus resultados. Dime qué genes tienes, y te diré cómo me miras s have linked as much as half of the income Más páginas
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