Handbook of Death and Dying - Google Books. Touching the Raw Amygdala: An Analysis of Liberal Debate Tactics – Preface. Patriarchy, Liberty and The 160 Million. It's Actually Conservatives vs. Liberals...and Liberals vs. the Amygdala. So one conservative neurosurgeon says to the other, “Didja hear why liberals have to work so much harder to win at politics?”
“Why, no, I haven’t,” says the other conservative neurosurgeon. “Ha! It’s because they have to compensate for having smaller amygdalae!” And they both laugh heartily as they stroll down the hospital corridor. The above joke doesn’t make any sense to the reader right now, of course, but in the light of current research it makes perfect sense. 1. Salon.com points out that the researchers were unable to determine if cerebral physiology drives politics or if political beliefs change the brain, but a joint study by Harvard and University of California San Diego indicated that people with [a so-called "liberal gene"] who have a greater-than-average number of friends would be exposed to a wider variety of social norms and lifestyles, which might make them more liberal than average.
Better microbes: nature abhors promiscuity. John Stonestreet.
The Return of Patriarchy - By Phillip Longman. If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.” So proclaimed the Roman general, statesman, and censor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, in 131 B.C. Still, he went on to plead, falling birthrates required that Roman men fulfill their duty to reproduce, no matter how irritating Roman women might have become. Conservatives have broader moral sense than liberals, says 'Righteous Mind' author. NEW YORK — In 2004, Jonathan Haidt had an experience that changed his intellectual life.
The influential moral and social psychologist — at the time an atheist and a liberal — was at the Strand, a used-book shop in New York, when the brown spine of a book called “Conservatism” caught his eye. Edited by historian Jerry Z. MIsForMalevolent: S is for Statistics. Back in 2006, I posted a review of sentencing of men vs women by our courts entitled H is for Happy (it was the New Year).
I like sentencing stats - they reflect the actual functioning of the courts, and hint to us at the injustices that might be happening in other parts of the process. My intent was to discover if the evidence of our eyes was true, and if women in general were getting a whole different kind of justice when they went to court. The numbers were shocking - across the board, women were recieving much shorter sentences - about 40% shorter than what was doled out to men. And it of course leads you to wonder what kind of biases are occuring in the arrest, trial and probation phases. Well, I thought it was time to re-visit this question, and I found a nifty and huge government database to work against: United States Department of Justice. And now it is possible to calculate how much less, on average, by crime, a woman is sentenced to than a man: 40%.
(drum roll please) p.s. Www.kevinmacdonald.net/Duchesne-Review.pdf. The Faustian motivation of European exploration. By Ricardo Duchesne.
Marco Polo, en route (1375). Click to enlarge. IN HIS 2003 book, Human Accomplishment: Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950, Charles Murray argued that the great artistic and scientific accomplishments were overwhelmingly European. ”What the human species is today,” he wrote, “it owes in astonishing degree to what was accomplished in just half a dozen centuries by the peoples of one small portion of the northwestern Eurasian land mass.”
This claim goes against the modern grain of the world history community – indeed, against fashionable belief. Research on Pornography and the Sexualization of Culture. Lasha Darkmoon’s current TOO article provides case studies illustrating the sexual deviance of some of the main promoters of pornography.
The question here is whether the availability of pornography is bad for Whites or, indeed, for any group. Historically, explicit sexuality was a taboo in all Western societies. Growing up Catholic in the 1950s, one was aware that sexually explicit material was far underground and that it was eminently disreputable. Implicitly and perhaps explicitly in some circles, pornography was seen as incompatible with the social utility of creating social supports for marriage based on love and affection between partners; marriage thus conceived encourages fertility and provides an ideal environment for children.
Implicitly at least, there was a recognition that sex is a strong biological urge, an attitude that no evolutionary psychologist would question. Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women Charts. Confessions of an ex-sex kitten. Sex went from being a casual conquest to a quest for love for Lisa Dierbeck.
The author believes "casual sex" doesn't exist, but "heartless" doesHooking up with strangers in her youth provoked combination of victory, devastationA "reformed tramp" at age 40, she now considers herself to be a romantic (Oprah.com) -- I don't believe in casual sex. Why are Benevolent Sexists Happier?