January 2012
455 posts
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice →
socially-dyslexic:
questionablenerdlygoodness:
There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher...
Anthropologists clarify link between Asians and... →
oldowan:
A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.
Lying at the intersection of what is today Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan, the region known as the Altai “is a key area because it’s a place that people have been coming and going...
Watchprosimian:
raisedyoufromperdition:
streetlamp-amber-wanderlust:
wanderlusttx:
strengthlikelions:
eunyce:
wow society..
A woman makes her own social science experiment. First, while very plain looking, she asked for free cake, and free taxi rides. She was rejected on every request but once. Then she got fully made up with heels, make up, and a revealing dress. She basically has...
Increased intake of carbohydrates exacerbate the...
DEAR FUCKED UP MIND THAT HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED BY AN ABUSIVE PSYCHOPATH:
No matter what thoughts you happen conjure up, I am still succeeding. I am continually going to succeed. Even on days it takes ALL my energy to get myself out of bed, and face the constant barrage of imperfections that I either enact or observe, I am still going to graduate this semester. I will definitely get into grad...
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Story Time #4
That was just another Memory, of course. That Memory lead to another, the pealing of a bell. Her mother’s name, on stone.
It was the only time Mira wore violet. Violet, the color of the murky underworld, a world tucked too close to a real one.
Tick.
The walls of the room are swathed in violet. The mirror reflected the velvet’s implicit menace.
“Mira, only we know what...
WatchHere comes the most honest post on tumblr (I’m a tad bit high, but I should say this. I’m pretty sure I’m going to lose the few good friends I have by saying this…but I have to.)
This is how I know that I’m messed up:
I know I have a shred of empathy somewhere within me. I SHOULD, anyways.
I have essentially the same story as this girl (except my parents separated...
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf
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see, I can't JUST sleep in when I feel unwell.
I have to call off work, voice lessons, research project #2, and genomics.
I am still going to class at 5:15 for a quiz…
Caffeine is a wonder drug
I need to get off craigslist.
I can start looking for apartments in Boston once I:
1) articulate a decent thesis
2) type out a decent personal statement for my apps
3) take the GRE
4) get into either UMass or Brandeis
5) get money from UMass and/or Brandeis
6) get a 4.0 my last semester/easiest semester of undergrad
7) fucking graduate
But at least I am constantly reassuring myself that I can, in fact, can find cheap,...
unpopular confession: I really don't see the...
Life, the universe, and everything nerdy.: The... →
themightygeeksaurus:
Now this is a story, all about how my life got flipped - turned upside down, And i’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became a professor at a school called Cornell.
In New York born an’ raised
At my telescope is where i spent mosta my days, Chillin…
Dumping project-relevant paraphrases onto a word...
I have resorted to typing with the monitor turned off.
Dog skull dates back 33,000 years →
oldowan:
An ancient dog skull, preserved in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia for 33,000 years, presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with equally ancient dog remains from a cave in Belgium, indicates that domestication of dogs may have occurred repeatedly in different geographic locations rather than with a single domestication event.
In other...
Sooo glad I'm single.
SELF-BARRED, and NOT ready to mingle :P