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There appears to still be a Waco in Texas
Helga Vierich - 07 May 2012 23 Comments
My own feeling at first was that I had strayed back into the pages of the Onion. But I checked, and NO, I was actually browsing an account on Think Atheist of a recent debacle that happened in Waco,...
Genocide: What is behind irrational evil perpetrated by ordinary people?
Helga Vierich - 10 April 2012 228 Comments
It is just religion? I don't think so. I doubt it is even the most important problem. Why, even in the case of the Holocaust, there is a profound indoctrination into a belief system involved,...
Helga Vierich - 09 April 2012 31 Comments
Look at this - Daily Show: Republican Strategist telling us why science is bad I know it is a bit tongue in cheek, right??? I hope. But there is a serious underlying problem here… unless I...
Genetic diversity among Common Chimpanzees
Helga Vierich - 18 March 2012 25 Comments
I was very struck by the findings of recent studies of diversity in Pan troglodytes , which revealed that there were probably four subspecies, not four. I was particularly struck by one of the...
Helga Vierich - 18 March 2012 4 Comments
The Heartland Institute has ben a major funder of "scientists" with various irrelevant qualifications who are willing to go on the record to debunk the evidence for global warming, or, at least,...
Who has the right to prevent children learning to be tolerant of others' beliefs?
Helga Vierich - 26 February 2012 65 Comments
No one. The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that Catholic parents cannot prevent their children from attending ethics and religion courses. The parents have been fighting to prevent their...
Windows of opportunity and destruction - for the human mind
Helga Vierich - 17 February 2012 17 Comments
On a number of different topics here, I have often referred people to The Two Year Window , a study which suggests that emotional nurture in the first two years of life are critical for the...
Networking - a modern phenomenon?
Helga Vierich - 06 February 2012 25 Comments
You may all know about Dunbar's Number , which is based on the finding that the human brain tends to knock off work if asked to keep close track of much over 150 other people. Yet many young...
Helga Vierich - 02 February 2012 45 Comments
This is an interesting thought.Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves? A new hypothesis holds that the natural selection produced the chimpanzee's nicer cousin in much the same way that...
Helga Vierich - 05 January 2012 351 Comments
[update 10am GMT-7 - the problem with page 3 of the comments not displaying has been corrected. Click on page 3 below is now working. /Mike One of the most widely read articles in the...
Helga Vierich - 27 December 2011 29 Comments
This looks like a lovely little community. However it scares me just a bit that new cults like this can arise so spontaneously and, despite their premise being clearly bogus (or maybe just seems...
Fatherhood and the hormonal changes associated with it
Helga Vierich - 24 December 2011 12 Comments
And I quote: (from the Times review cited in this article [This] finding … helps make the case that women aren’t the only ones who are biologically wired for raising children. Decreased levels...
The power of belief: Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome: Men Who Think They Are Pregnant with Dogs
Helga Vierich - 18 November 2011 28 Comments
I have occasionally tried to impress people here with the importance of culture in influencing human behaviour via their actual perception of reality. Despite also affirming that we have cognitive...
Helga Vierich - 30 October 2011 58 Comments
I am aghast. From the article : "...Joseph Ratzinger knows that he can’t aim his pious invective at the Jewish people as his predecessors did. So this most contemporary pope takes aim at the...
Helga Vierich - 30 October 2011 53 Comments
A book by Steven Leblanc, anthropologist, has me in a kind of outraged shock. It seems that he has fallen for the view that humans are naturally violent, aggressive, deceitful, manipulative…...
Alberta: where the word "evolution" and the name "Darwin" does not appear in a "science" textbook
Helga Vierich - 27 October 2011 33 Comments
I live in the Canadian province of Alberta. I find it hard to believe - but even harder to get other people here to even see as serious - the way evolution and Darwin's ideas are virtually ignored...
The evidence for Homo sp. being polytypic all along
Helga Vierich - 24 September 2011 24 Comments
Our general anthropological consensus is that modern humanity can trace most of its DNA to a small number of individuals who probably lived in subsaharan Africa between 200,000 and 150,000 years...
Missionary deconverted by native tribe
Helga Vierich - 19 September 2011 17 Comments
This is a rather interesting audio account of the trials and tribulations of a young linguist, Daniel Everett, who went to live among the Pirahã tribe in South America. It struck me particularly...
Is Homo sapiens really wise enough to be rational about the future?
Helga Vierich - 10 September 2011 36 Comments
Enlightenment is a wonderful thing. Our big brains should be good for something. But besides intellectual satisfaction, winning arguments, and charming the opposite sex, our intelligence ought to...
Well, that's interesting … who is "praying" for Obama?
Helga Vierich - 31 August 2011 44 Comments
I recently came across this article and was struck by the sinister implications of the recent " pray for Obama" campaign in the USA. Do you suppose someone got their scripture verses mixed up? ...
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