Undead Astronauts

so the economist has an article up written by geoffrey miller, an evolutionary psychologist. he makes some rather stark observations.

Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races.

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trailer for the 6 revealed characters. there’s only a few more new chars to go.

omg i love it.

i have recently became aware that liberals exist who have looked at the available data and have become convinced of the reality of hbd. one of these liberals is now struggling to reconcile hbd views and liberalism.

i appreciate this effort b/c i’ve stated previously that if liberals ignore this area of inquiry, they automatically cede the intellectual ground to conservatives and outright racists. i say this even though i’m not a liberal. i just happen to value divergent points of view as long as they are based on evidence and not ignorance, even if that evidence points to reality being pretty ugly. but what of asian-americans that might hold hbd views?

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an entertainment tidbit i found funny is how 2012 is a big hit in china. no, the chinese were probably not more impressed by the effects of the catastraporn movie than other ppl around the world. what made the chinese happy was that they were portrayed as instrumental in saving humanity. (more…)

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check it out. qualifiers on the 21st, and finals on the 22nd.

thought this was interesting. sure, it’s propaganda, but it’s still interesting.

all ethnicities here.