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The Possessions Exercise (According to Geoffrey Miller)
I’m re-reading Geoffrey Miller’s books The Mating Mind and Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, partially for pleasure and partially because some of his ideas might make it into m… more →
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Facebook and Smartphones: New Tools Research Tools
wrote 1 week ago: Article adapted from ScienceDaily (May 18, 2012) Whether you’re an iPerson who can’t liv … more →
Protocols of Machismo, Part 2: On the Hidden Connection Between Henry Kissinger and Liza Minnelli
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wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday, I posted Part 1 of this excerpt from Chapter 9 of The Reactionary Mind. Today, I post Par … more →
"Big Hips and Breasts" -- to Charles Darwin -- by Zireaux
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wrote 1 month ago: Siren (real name, Amy Guy) from the TV show, American Gladiators“Big Hips and Breasts” ( … more →
Meandering the Fringes: Thoughts in the Wake of the Emerald City Comicon pt. 2: Hey God, Did You See That?
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wrote 1 month ago: “Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fa … more →
Ten Years of Guantanamo: One of the Prison's First Detainees Breaks His Silence
wrote 4 months ago: Tuesday 10 January 2012 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Interview David Hicks, author of … more →
Costly signalling behaviour - art better than a Ferrari
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wrote 10 months ago: Normally I hesitate to share what I’ve been reading, but, in case you’re interested in t … more →
Menstruation & Attraction: Why Females Shouldn't Flirt While Menstruating, and Why Bears Can Smell the Menstruation
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wrote 11 months ago: To my female readers who read the title and said, “duh, you didn’t need science to figur … more →
Books: Spent
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m re-reading a fascinating book by Geoffry Miller called Spent: Sex Evolution and Consumer Behavio … more →
"I'm tired of pretending I'm not a total bitching rock star from Mars:" The Introversion of Rock Stars
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wrote 1 year ago: There have been a few interesting articles in The Huffington Post about the nature of the creative p … more →
"Big Hips and Breasts" by Zireaux
wrote 1 year ago: Siren (real name, Amy Guy) from the TV show, American GladiatorsFrom the second canto of the novel-i … more →
Original photograph of six German soldiers at rest in a rear area
wrote 1 year ago: I found this original photograph in a used bookstore in Morgantown, West Virginia, some years ago. … more →
Second Sons, Bowerbirds, and Gay Priests
wrote 1 year ago: Andrew Sullivan’s observation about homosexuality in the Catholic priesthood (first quotation below) … more →
That Weekly Standard Article, Part 2
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wrote 2 years ago: In Part 1, we got halfway through this article that was written by Charlotte Allen and published in … more →
The Possessions Exercise (According to Geoffrey Miller)
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wrote 2 years ago: I’m re-reading Geoffrey Miller’s books The Mating Mind and Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Co … more →
Shopping-ul şi narcisismul
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wrote 2 years ago: Orice elev de liceu învaţă la Economie că natura umană (cu nevoile ei piramidale) şi piaţa liberă su … more →
No Regrets Buying Cars, TVs, and Other Big-Ticket Items
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wrote 2 years ago: Fascinating story in the Times Science section about how consumers buy things, and the relative happ … more →
Genetic determinism? Not so fast.
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wrote 2 years ago: There are several items in the news today relevant to evolutionary psychology. First, David Brooks, … more →
Spent
wrote 2 years ago: I’m not sure what to make of the title Geoffrey Miller’s new book Spent: Sex, Evolution … more →
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior — Geoffrey Miller
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wrote 3 years ago: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior is worth reading, but only with a skeptical eye that wi … more →
