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Forum: Politics
03/18/13, 05:48 PM
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Replies: 623
Views: 24,394
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Forum: Politics
03/17/13, 07:21 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,004
Just read "The Righteous Mind" by...
Just read "The Righteous Mind" by Haidt, a social psychologist. It ties together morals/ethics, evolution, political beliefs, and religion. It was interesting and pretty accessible. Not sure if it...
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Forum: Politics
03/17/13, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 10,029
Views: 215,197
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Forum: Politics
03/17/13, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 10,029
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Forum: General
03/17/13, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 229
Views: 7,023
1. Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse -...
1. Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse - Minus the Bear
2. Am I Wry? No - Mew
3. The Archers Bows Have Broken - Brand New
4. Violence - Blink 182
5. Freakish - Saves the Day
6. Thinkin Bout...
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Forum: Politics
02/13/13, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 1,664
Views: 57,653
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Forum: Politics
02/13/13, 08:33 PM
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Replies: 1,664
Views: 57,653
To add to your point, diversity in an...
To add to your point, diversity in an evolutionary sense tends to promotes adaptation (at least in part). I do not see evolution as necessarily degrading towards certain traits that are not typical...
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Forum: Politics
02/13/13, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 302
Views: 8,348
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Forum: Politics
02/13/13, 03:32 PM
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Replies: 302
Views: 8,348
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Forum: Politics
01/27/13, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 526
Views: 12,554
Last week I heard a story on NPR concerning...
Last week I heard a story on NPR concerning research suggesting there was significant decreases suicide rates by overdose by just individually wrapping the pills in the area. No ban on purchasing it,...
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Forum: Politics
01/27/13, 06:00 PM
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Replies: 526
Views: 12,554
Important to note: The variance of smoking...
Important to note: The variance of smoking behavior explains roughly 16% of the occurrence of cancer (if I remember correctly... I will try to find a link). To decide that 45% of variance explained...
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Forum: Politics
01/27/13, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 526
Views: 12,554
Thanks for this. Reading from the beginning of...
Thanks for this. Reading from the beginning of the thread, I was worried that no one appreciated the link between violent video games (as one example) and aggressive behavior (however that gets...
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Forum: Politics
11/07/12, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
Are you being serious? He is offering...
Are you being serious? He is offering probabilities of a person winning each state. He didn't just win one election yesterday, he predicted 50 (assuming FL) states. His model is accurate, not...
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Forum: Politics
11/06/12, 07:38 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
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Forum: Politics
11/06/12, 06:58 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
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Forum: Politics
11/05/12, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
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Forum: Politics
11/05/12, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
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Forum: Politics
11/05/12, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
For the presidential race?? Probably what ever...
For the presidential race?? Probably what ever Nate Silver says... :) 300 or so EVs for Obama, and a fairly close popular vote.
I wish I could predict the same success for both the ballot amendments...
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Forum: Politics
11/05/12, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 3,510
Views: 93,907
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Forum: Politics
03/25/12, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 10,023
Views: 377,323
There is plenty of psychological research that...
There is plenty of psychological research that suggests that these types of "impulses" are not curbed by watching others commit them. Watching violence leads to individuals thinking, feeling, and...
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Forum: Music
01/16/12, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 5,627
Views: 315,066
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Forum: Politics
12/07/11, 09:56 PM
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Replies: 131
Views: 9,985
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Forum: Politics
11/09/11, 09:43 PM
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Replies: 9,965
Views: 448,549
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Forum: Politics
10/23/11, 02:00 PM
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Replies: 110
Views: 6,013
If more people took some philosophy classes, I...
If more people took some philosophy classes, I don't think the country would be as ignorant and ill-informed as it is. That is me, though. I suppose it depends on how you assign value to college...
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Forum: Politics
10/18/11, 03:40 PM
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Replies: 2,006
Views: 172,856
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