http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/michael-marin-ex-wall-street-banker-swallowed-poison-pill-courtroom-conviction-arson-article-1.1104528?localLinksEnabled=false
---SPSmith
Friday, June 29, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Article: Nora Ephron, the Queen of Quips
Nora Ephron, the Queen of Quips
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/nora-ephron-the-queen-of-quips/
"it has become horribly clear to me that I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House whom the president did not make a pass at."
---SPSmith
Monday, June 25, 2012
Justice Antonin Scalia Rages Against Obama On Immigration | TPMDC
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/justice-scalia-rages-against-obama-on-immigration.php?ref=fpa
Not only is Scalia's mind boogied, but his morals are bankrupt ...
"Scalia has finally jumped the shark," Winkler told TPM. "He claims to
respect the founding fathers, but his dissent channels the opponents
of the Constitution. Back then, opponents argued that the Constitution
denied states their sovereignty by giving too much power to the
federal government, as with immigration. Now Scalia echoes their
complaints that states are being denied their sovereignty. States are
not sovereign when it comes to powers vested in Congress, such as the
authority over immigration and naturalization."
---SPSmith
Not only is Scalia's mind boogied, but his morals are bankrupt ...
"Scalia has finally jumped the shark," Winkler told TPM. "He claims to
respect the founding fathers, but his dissent channels the opponents
of the Constitution. Back then, opponents argued that the Constitution
denied states their sovereignty by giving too much power to the
federal government, as with immigration. Now Scalia echoes their
complaints that states are being denied their sovereignty. States are
not sovereign when it comes to powers vested in Congress, such as the
authority over immigration and naturalization."
---SPSmith
Az sb1070
Today the supreme court rightly repudiated the ugly anti-American fascist tactics of the crackpot governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, and its senile sheriff, Joe Apario.
---SPSmith
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Abe Lincoln
For all you birther climate-change denying creationists, a film which finally gets its facts straight: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The schools boards of Kansas and Texas should to add to their history curriculum soon!
http://gawker.com/5920368/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-is-as-tasteless-as-it-sounds
http://gawker.com/5920368/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-is-as-tasteless-as-it-sounds
The Battle Over Climate Science — www.popsci.com — Readability
The Battle Over Climate Science — www.popsci.com — Readability:
Muller’s conclusion was most likely not what the Koch brothers had in mind. Last October, his team announced that the global mean temperature on land had increased by 1.6 degrees since 1950, a result that matched the numbers accepted by the mainstream climate-science community. “The skeptics raised valid points, and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago,” Muller told me. “Now we have confidence that the temperature rises previously reported had been done without bias. Global warming is real.”
Muller’s conclusion was most likely not what the Koch brothers had in mind. Last October, his team announced that the global mean temperature on land had increased by 1.6 degrees since 1950, a result that matched the numbers accepted by the mainstream climate-science community. “The skeptics raised valid points, and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago,” Muller told me. “Now we have confidence that the temperature rises previously reported had been done without bias. Global warming is real.”
The puzzle of monogamous ... [Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI
The puzzle of monogamous ... [Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI: "The anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 per cent of human societies have permitted men to have more than one wife (polygynous marriage"
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Film Comment | Film Society of Lincoln Center
"It's not that I have seen the light," he wrote in 1975, "but that I have come to appreciate Kubrick's particular form of darkness
---SPSmith
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Check out: 'Despite What You’ve Heard, Tech is Not a Man’s World: Talking to Intel’s Genevieve Bell' on Slate
I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:
Despite What You've Heard, Tech is Not a Man's World: Talking to
Intel's Genevieve Bell
By Katy Waldman
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/19/genevieve_bell_on_women_and_tech_this_is_not_a_man_s_world.html?wpisrc=sl_ipad
---SPSmith
Despite What You've Heard, Tech is Not a Man's World: Talking to
Intel's Genevieve Bell
By Katy Waldman
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/06/19/genevieve_bell_on_women_and_tech_this_is_not_a_man_s_world.html?wpisrc=sl_ipad
---SPSmith
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
The False Allure Of Group Selection | Conversation | Edge
The idea of Group Selection has a superficial appeal because humans are indisputably adapted to group living and because some groups are indisputably larger, longer-lived, and more influential than others. This makes it easy to conclude that properties of human groups, or properties of the human mind, have been shaped by a process that is akin to natural selection acting on genes. Despite this allure, I have argued that the concept of Group Selection has no useful role to play in psychology or social science. It refers to too many things, most of which are not alternatives to the theory of gene-level selection but loose allusions to the importance of groups in human evolution. And when the concept is made more precise, it is torn by a dilemma. If it is meant to explain the cultural traits of successful groups, it adds nothing to conventional history and makes no precise use of the actual mechanism of natural selection. But if it is meant to explain the psychology of individuals, particularly an inclination for unconditional self-sacrifice to benefit a group of nonrelatives, it is dubious both in theory (since it is hard to see how it could evolve given the built-in advantage of protecting the self and one's kin) and in practice (since there is no evidence that humans have such a trait).
None of this prevents us from seeking to understand the evolution of social and moral intuitions, nor the dynamics of populations and networks which turn individual psychology into large-scale societal and historical phenomena. It's just that the notion of "group selection" is far more likely to confuse than to enlighten—especially as we try to understand the ideas and institutions that human cognition has devised to make up for the shortcomings of our evolved adaptations to group living.
---SPSmith
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