Open Thread – October 9th, 2010
Fall is upon us. I do not recommend The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. Too thin. Finally getting to Paul Bloom’s How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. But after hearing him in interviews and reading his articles on the topic over the past six months as he […]
Open thread – October 2nd, 2010
Won’t be too long until Halloween and a Republican Congress!
I thought that today I would outline some implicit rules-of-thumb for comments on this weblog. I don’t have an official comments policy, and won’t write one out explicitly, because I don’t want to give people a false sense of security.
– I’d appreciate it if you didn’t […]
Open Thread, September 25th, 2010
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error is in my “stack,” though I don’t know when I’ll get to it. A few things I’ve been wrong about in the last 10 years:
– I was more optimistic about reproducible I.Q. QTLs in 2000 than I should have been. Here’s a 1998 article on Robert Plomin’s […]
Open Thread – September 18th, 2010
Last weekend of summer. I plan to have my reviews of The Invisible Gorilla and The Lost History of Christianity up very soon. I recommend both heartily! Next in the stack: Stanislas Dehaene’s Reading in the Brain. A question was asked about the focus on extremes when it came to perceptions of the genetic influence […]
Open thread, September 11th, 2010
Well, it’s that day again. Nine years on, what’s changed? After Iraq, and the new quagmire in Afghanistan, it seems that our laser-like focus on what & who caused 9/11 is no longer with us. I can’t believe we haven’t caught Osama bin Laden yet. Look at what Eric Raymond is blogging about now vs. […]
Open thread – August 22, 2010
I found out this week that the idea of the “Noble Savage” is erroneously attributed to Jean Jacques Rosseau. I haven’t read much Rosseau myself, so I’m familiar with the general shape of his ideas through the filters of later interpreters. But even if I’d consumed the great man’s oeuvre in totality I wonder if […]
Open Thread – August 16th, 2010
The usual. If it’s off topic, etc., leave it here.
Open thread – August 8th, 2010
Didn’t get to looking into papers from last week’s open thread…but I will. But as usual, comments, links, etc. While I have your attention, my twitter feed is here. I don’t post what I’m eating or anything, but it’s …
Open Thread – July 23rd, 2010
I was travelling on Monday so couldn’t post the open thread and then forgot. But now that I think about I think Friday would be better in any case, because I don’t post much on the weekends. So again, questions, links, what you’re reading. You know my motto, “Don’t be stupid” (fwiw, posting links to […]
Open thread – July 12th, 2010
Any interesting papers? Questions?
7/5/2010 Open Thread
I think it is probably best to have a weekly open thread for links and what not of interest. So I’ll just do this every week (in fact, I’m going to schedule a bunch ahead), and leave links or pointers. I suppose people could ask questions too, as a lot of my blog posts which […]