Nine out of ten women have sex while not married. Four out of ten women don’t have sex while married.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

“Système d’attraction” , in “Les métamorphoses du jour,” By J. J. Grandville, Albéric Second, Charles Blanc
In contrast to recent reports about Elliott Spitzer’s self-destruction, womens’ sex habits have been largely ignored. So here’s the news flash: Almost all adult American women have sex, whether married or not. (HT: Docuticker). But, [...]

Make jihadists community college students, not suicide bombers

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Here’s the math:
About 1.8 million Islamic Jihadists (although only about 300,000-400,000 on the government list)
About 1 Trillion for the war (conservatively)
$1 trillion/1.8 million = $555,555 each
That’s enough to get a Mullah to retire and move to Scottsdale.

The “Clinton Neuron” and why Pamela Anderson should get a cabinet post

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

 
 

The Clinton Neuron
Neurodemocracy, you gotta love it. Branding, celebrity and politics — all evoke neurological responses in primitive brain areas. How can the candidates best position themselves to have the best neurological response in swing voters?
I have some advice. Free! For Senator Clinton, first, promise Pamela Anderson a cabinet post.

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The Neuropolitics of Hillary: Stay at home moms penalize successful women

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How powerful people avoid criminal labels: steroids, backdating and stolen museum artifacts

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Jose Canseco, the noted baseball player and author of “Juiced“, was busy as a bee pollinating major league baseball with knowledge and practices for steroid and growth hormone use. (Here’s the link on Docuticker). This strikes me as similar to the stock option backdating scenario — interlocking boards of directors and using the [...]

Hapmap update: Evolution speeding up; schizophrenia DNA very homozygous and looks like recessive selection

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Which is better, for genes to change or for them to stay the same?
Is it better to evolve or devolve?
According to new hapmap data, evolution is accelerating with increasing human density and migration. We are evolving more quickly since the Pleistocene, according to a recent report in PNAS by Hawkes et al. Most of [...]

Neuropolitics: Campaign advice for Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson

Monday, November 12th, 2007

The Clinton Neurons, Quian Quiroga et al., “Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain,” Nature 435: 1102-1107 (2005)
Neurodemocracy, you gotta love it. Branding, celebrity and politics — all evoke neurological responses in primitive brain areas. How can the candidates best position themselves to have the best neurological response in swing [...]