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Ancient Encounters • Re: Your Inner Neaderthal --"Compelling Evidence Found for Interbreeding With Humans" 27 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
RWP wrote: Interbreeding has always been a fuzzy criterion. What about groups that will interbreed but are less likely to do so exogamously than endogamously? What about color forms of the species tha...
Ancient Encounters • Re: Your Inner Neaderthal --"Compelling Evidence Found for Interbreeding With Humans" 27 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
Interbreeding has always been a fuzzy criterion. What about groups that will interbreed but are less likely to do so exogamously than endogamously? What about color forms of the species that exclusive...
Lower Education • Liberia students all fail university admission exam 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23843578 Liberia's education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year's university admission exam. Nearly 25,000 ...
Art and Culture • Re: How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet 27 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
JustCurious wrote: What sort of person regards a god as worthy of worship who would bring about eternal suffering for non believers? I would say someone who refuses to think through the moral implicat...
Art and Culture • Re: How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet 27 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
What sort of person regards a god as worthy of worship who would bring about eternal suffering for non believers? I would say someone who refuses to think through the moral implications of such a god....
Business and Economy • Re: Which famous economist are you most similar to? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
kingprout wrote: oscillating between Luigi Zingales and Pete Klenow. I mean with almost literally every answer. I have no idea who either may be It finally places me with Zingales. My position is p1@7...
International Affairs • Re: Syria crisis: UN inspectors' convoy hit by sniper fire 27 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
I find it quite credible that the Syrian government would use nerve gas against its opponent. I also find it quite credible that its opponents would lie about use of nerve gas. At the moment it looks...
General Chat • Re: Youtube thread a trois 27 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
If you're going to spend 62 hours of computer time rendering thirty seconds of hi-def CGI soft-body physics simulation, why not make it hilarious? NSFW: show phpBB [video] http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Lower Education • Re: America’s Most Influential—and Wrongest—School Reformer 27 Aug 2013 | 11:38 am
Not "wrongest", "most wrong". I'm not a grammar Nazi, more like a grammar conservative. Statistics: Posted by ZoeB — Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:38 am
Science News • Re: Physicist Disentangles 'Schrodinger's Cat' Debate 27 Aug 2013 | 11:36 am
Ichneumon wrote: Similarly, a Heisenbug is one that changes its behavior (usually by working just fine) when you attempt to track it down in the debugger. Like the Heisenberg principle, the very act o...