[knox]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnMw...x=0&playnext=1

[davenotdead]

Originally Posted by ni'k

could i maybe suggest that in order to improve yours you sit and think about how you actually 80% of those girls wanted it and it doesn't count because it was friends or family?

man, i can't remember how many of your posts have offended me. nice to know i can disgust you when i put my mind to it.

ps to flslwly - you can't prove that, i don't think

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by knox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnMw...x=0&playnext=1

Loved the photos of the band.

[ni'k]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

man, i can't remember how many of your posts have offended me. nice to know i can disgust you when i put my mind to it.

ps to flslwly - you can't prove that, i don't think

yeah, you should definitely be proud of yourself.

[davenotdead]

i would be were not everything in this thread deemed irrelevant. unless we were to create an 'irrelevant thread trophy' . preferably of a cup-shape, because it'd be better suited to hold the tears of the poor raped woman who lives underneath my floorboards

[Derek]

 

That is so unfair.

[ni'k]

Originally Posted by davenotdead

i would be were not everything in this thread deemed irrelevant. unless we were to create an 'irrelevant thread trophy' . preferably of a cup-shape, because it'd be better suited to hold the tears of the poor raped woman who lives underneath my floorboards

no thread could be more irrelevant than that smug asshattery

[phoenix]

hey you guyz are missing the point of the thread by having a conversation that stays on topic for many boring years(pages).

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

mmmm Moon Mist.

[static-harmony]

 

[static-harmony]

 

[floatingslowly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9S0z...eature=related (0:20)

Feb 11 - Atlas rocket launch breaks sound barrier shortly before entering cirrus clouds, the compression shock ripples along ice crystals and "blows away" an apparent sun dog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neurost...7623288251657/

[floatingslowly]

Web address:
*****http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/
*****100224132655.htm
Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human Evolutionary History, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2010) — More intelligent people are statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history.* Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds.

The study, published in the March 2010 issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Social Psychology Quarterly, advances a new theory to explain why people form particular preferences and values.* The theory suggests that more intelligent people are more likely than less intelligent people to adopt evolutionarily novel preferences and values, but intelligence does not correlate with preferences and values that are old enough to have been shaped by evolution over millions of years."

"Evolutionarily novel" preferences and values are those that humans are not biologically designed to have and our ancestors probably did not possess.* In contrast, those that our ancestors had for millions of years are "evolutionarily familiar."

"General intelligence, the ability to think and reason, endowed our ancestors with advantages in solving evolutionarily novel problems for which they did not have innate solutions," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science.* "As a result, more intelligent people are more likely to recognize and understand such novel entities and situations than less intelligent people, and some of these entities and situations are preferences, values, and lifestyles."

An earlier study by Kanazawa found that more intelligent individuals were more nocturnal, waking up and staying up later than less intelligent individuals.* Because our ancestors lacked artificial light, they tended to wake up shortly before dawn and go to sleep shortly after dusk.* Being nocturnal is evolutionarily novel.

In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel.* So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals.

Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) support Kanazawa's hypothesis.* Young adults who subjectively identify themselves as "very liberal" have an average IQ of 106 during adolescence while those who identify themselves as "very conservative" have an average IQ of 95 during adolescence.

Similarly, religion is a byproduct of humans' tendency to perceive agency and intention as causes of events, to see "the hands of God" at work behind otherwise natural phenomena.* "Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid," says Kanazawa.* This innate bias toward paranoia served humans well when self-preservation and protection of their families and clans depended on extreme vigilance to all potential dangers.* "So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists."

Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence.

In addition, humans have always been mildly polygynous in evolutionary history.* Men in polygynous marriages were not expected to be sexually exclusive to one mate, whereas men in monogamous marriages were.* In sharp contrast, whether they are in a monogamous or polygynous marriage, women were always expected to be sexually exclusive to one mate.* So being sexually exclusive is evolutionarily novel for men, but not for women.* And the theory predicts that more intelligent men are more likely to value sexual exclusivity than less intelligent men, but general intelligence makes no difference for women's value on sexual exclusivity.* Kanazawa's analysis of Add Health data supports these sex-specific predictions as well.

One intriguing but theoretically predicted finding of the study is that more intelligent people are no more or no less likely to value such evolutionarily familiar entities as marriage, family, children, and friends.

Journal Reference:
Kanazawa et al. Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent. Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010; DOI: 10.1177/0190272510361602

[Rob Instigator]

140 year old hot dog found at Coney Island
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/....news12?hpt=C2

[Pookie]

From the sublime to the ridiculous.

[EVOLghost]

Now that! Is irrelevant

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

Web address:
*****http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/
*****100224132655.htm
Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human Evolutionary History, Study Finds

I've been reading a lot about religion and evolution recently and this is a fascinating addition to the debate. It's a shame the whole paper isn't available to view online without paying (unless you know differently).

[Rob Instigator]

hOW hILLARY dUFF GOT ENGAGED

 

 

 

 

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by Pookie

I've been reading a lot about religion and evolution recently and this is a fascinating addition to the debate. It's a shame the whole paper isn't available to view online without paying (unless you know differently).

I've been trying to find this for you, but it does appear that if needs a subscription to view the full article.

I'm asking a few PhDs to see if they might already subscribe, but so far no luck.

my main source for pub.meds would have himself a fucking meltdown if I asked him.

[davenotdead]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9S0z...eature=related (0:20)

Feb 11 - Atlas rocket launch breaks sound barrier shortly before entering cirrus clouds, the compression shock ripples along ice crystals and "blows away" an apparent sun dog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neurost...7623288251657/

awesome. sound is real y'all. we can c it nao.