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Why Are So Many Italian Men Such Chotches? Is It Evolution?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

When walking alone through the medina here in Essaouira, Julie occasionally gets unwanted male attention. It’s low-key and harmless, and comes with the territory. It’s not nearly as bad as she’s experienced in Italy, though.
In both Palermo and Rome, she was constantly harassed by Italian men. She couldn’t sit down to have a coffee without […]

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Bronchioles, Trees or Coastline?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

I’m agnostic. But if I wanted to find evidence of a Intelligent Designer in nature, I’d look at more images like this:

I made this image by rotating, blurrying and greyscaling this satellite photo of the coast of Greenland. I saw it on this recently-Dugg blog post, and was immediately struck by how tree-like the fjords […]

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Why Do Beautiful People Have More Daughters?

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

The folks at Penguin sent me a review copy of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa. It’s a provocative primer on the newish science of evolutionary psychology, and a direct attack on the central notions of more traditional sociology. I gather that evolutionary psychology is fairly hot at […]

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