Cold Water
Two highly-recommended recent blog posts on a critical issue: The demographic calamity of modernity. One by Peter Frost, the other by One Irradiated Watson. (It’s a perennial topic, for obvious...
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ZH notices demographic self-abolition. The problem is construed more narrowly and economistically than is typical in the reactosphere (“There are consequences to conjuring money out of thin air. There...
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Jack London on Gnon (from ‘The Law of Life’): He had been born close to the earth, close to the earth had he lived, and the law thereof was not new to him. It was the law of flesh. Nature was not...
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‘n/a’ provided a link to Frank Salter’s On Genetic Interests. (Available in a variety of formats.) That gift follows from the latest exchange on the topic, based on this Jayman post. Some (Salterian)...
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Dreher: Carle C. Zimmerman, the Harvard historian and sociologist, was not a religious man, but in his book Family and Civilization, which examining the history of the decline and fall of ancient...
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This is fun, because it's an article about dysgenics but the author doesn't mention genetics at all. https://t.co/ZHpuhtD4oa — Rory (@roreiy) November 2, 2015
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The kind of things 19th century English geniuses believed will set your teeth chattering: Galton feared that the English race was degenerating, declining in both mental and physical ability. (It...
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Folk Wisdom is a thing: Google searches about cats are negatively correlated with birth rate, across U.S. states https://t.co/p06AJsv5v7 ! pic.twitter.com/HgUmaNTV53 — Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)...
View ArticleExtinction Genetics
Like everything great it appears superficially as a paradox, but there’s now a practical model for it: The paradox Burt had to solve is how something very bad for mosquitoes could also be spread by...
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