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Pascal Boyer explaining why anthropology is largely irrelevant. ...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:33:08 -0500

Pascal Boyer explaining why anthropology is largely irrelevant. If you are an anthropologist, a sociologist, a culture studies kind of person, a hyphenated American studies person, etc, you really REALLY need to watch and listen to this.

Human Zoos

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:00 -0500

Human Zoos

"Evolutionary psychology is like men are men because GENES Women are mothers because THEY EVOLVED..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:52:43 -0500

“Evolutionary psychology is like
men are men because GENES
Women are mothers because THEY EVOLVED BREASTS
MEN MUST HUNT
HUNT FOR YOUNG TITTAAYYSS
I mean
not all of it, obviously
just
in popular usage
it is used to excuse sexism
and even in some of the research, you ask sexist questions and get sexist answers
from what I’ve seen”

- Just some more poor soul that doesn’t understand what evolutionary psychology is. Everyone wants to talk about how sexist it is, as if politics has anything to do with the science of human origins. People, stop pretending that biological sex doesn’t exist, and stop pretending that ancient peoples were as “enlightened” as you think you are in 21st century America.

combustamove (via montrealmighteatitsyoung)

"What science disputes in religion is not its right to exist but its right to dogmatize about the..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:47:51 -0500

“What science disputes in religion is not its right to exist but its right to dogmatize about the nature of things, its pretentions to special expertise for explaining [humans] and the world. In fact, religion does not know itself. It knows neither what it is made of nor what it needs to respond to. Far from being able to tell science what to do, religion is itself an object for science.”

- Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (via handfu1ofdust)

Taylor Empire Airways: Studying religion with a degree of seriousness

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:42:58 -0500

Taylor Empire Airways: Studying religion with a degree of seriousness:

taylorempireairways:

Brian Bethune of Maclean’s magazine conducts a fascinating interview with Dr. Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and one of two Research Directors of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Dr. Tiger has spent four decades trying to bridge the gap…

I wonder if people who tag the "anthropology" tag

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:41:46 -0500

shizumataka:

with crap from Anthropologie even go to the tag page and realize they are tagging it wrong >:( I also wonder if they see the NUMEROUS post like this one complaining about how they are crowding Anthropology with things that are not related to the science.

Sometimes I really wish they would rename that store >:( lol

The key here is the word “science.”

lieutenantcupcake: Arrested Development D&D alignments. I...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:59:46 -0500

lieutenantcupcake:

Arrested Development D&D alignments.

I am usually neutral good on these things. I can live with being George Michael

"We do not wag our genitals at one another to make a point"

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:41:48 -0500

“We do not wag our genitals at one another to make a point”

- George Bluth- Arrested Development
I thought this quote was relevant to evolutionary psychology, and has the added benefit of awesomeness.

The First Law of Thermodynamics

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:48:40 -0500

…is you do not talk about thermodynamics.

The Second Law of thermodynamics is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THERMODYNAMICS.

Natural selection’s answer to the War on Christmas.

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:41:00 -0500

Natural selection’s answer to the War on Christmas.

lkworld: Art by Craww I just loved seeing this, I had to...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:40:29 -0500

lkworld:

Art by Craww

I just loved seeing this, I had to share.

Photo

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:44:02 -0500

Beef Nog Recipe: 3 eggs 6 cups of milk 2 cups heavy cream 2 cups...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:50:00 -0500

Beef Nog Recipe:

3 eggs

6 cups of milk

2 cups heavy cream

2 cups bourbon

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons nutmeg

4 beef bouillon cubes

1 beef bone for garnish

In a large bowl and using a mixer, beat the eggs, sugar for approx 2 minutes (you want the mixture to be firm and the colour of butter). In a separate bowl, dissolve the bouillon cubes with a small amount of warm or hot water. Add to egg mixture.
Very slowly, add in the bourbon - just a little at a time.
When bourbon have been added, allow the mixture to cool in the fridge (for up to 6 hours, depending on how long before your party you’re making the eggnog).
30 minutes before your guests arrive, stir the milk into the chilled yolk mixture.
Stir in 1+ 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg.
In a separate bowl, beat the cream with a mixer on high speed until the cream forms stiff peaks.

Gently fold the cream into the egg mixture.
After ladling into cups, garnish with a beef bone.

Serves: 8.

Consider substituting shrimp bouillon or shrimp base for the beef bouillon for the less popular but nonetheless tasty shrimp nog. For this, you may garnish with shrimp tails or even crab claws.

I just got a gift in the mail from somebody that I didn’t expect a gift from. Now, I’m...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:08:00 -0500

I just got a gift in the mail from somebody that I didn’t expect a gift from. Now, I’m in a Larry David-esque situation, where I know the socially correct thing to do is to reciprocate and buy them a gift, but I always feel kind of threatened into niceness this time of year. Even worse, since it’s nearly Christmas already, it will be difficult to get them a gift in time, so I just come out of it looking like an ass. Yay! I heart Christmas. I heart fake thoughtfulness too.

Gift giving at Christmas comes in two flavors. The first is genuinely heartfelt, warm and fuzzy giving. The other flavor, the one I will focus on here, is giving out of a sense of obligation and forced neighborliness. People give out all kinds of stupid cheap presents that no one wants because they think they have to, but the recipient of these things just throw them away or put them in their garages, never to be seen or used again until they can give it away the next year. In the end, we’re just trading money. Or worse yet, trading candles or clearance tea sets. I want the gift giving run amok to stop. I just want to get a few people presents and I don’t want to feel like an asshole if I don’t give every co-worker a nice pen or a coffee cup. I don’t want their coffee cups or pens, so why the hell are we doing this?

Because reciprocity is a fundamental building block of human relations. By giving away pens and coffee cups, I am not showing my acceptance of a cultural tradition, or my belief in Jesus. What I am actually doing is showing others that I am not free riding. That’s all it comes down to. Christmas is the perfect season for moochers. Every year, douchebags rake in the goods while doing the absolute least bit of work and spending (which is often zero). We hate them for it. We secretly despise them and think they are cheap bastards. But we say stupid things like, “But I like to give presents more than I like getting them!” so that we look like likable angels when in fact, we are pissed that we spent over a hundred dollars on gifts for co-workers, neighbors and distant friends and got squat in return. Christmas is a game. If both co-operate, then the holiday stays alive. Free riding defectors ruin it for others by gaining in the short run, but risk not getting anything the next year. I think we should all defect. We should all stop giving and expecting gifts from acquaintances and co-workers. Concentrate on giving to those people that really mean something to us. If nothing else, just to screw Wal-Mart.

Today is the Winter Solstice! The sun will make its comeback again… I don’t know if...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:52:58 -0500

Today is the Winter Solstice! The sun will make its comeback again… I don’t know if that’s good news for Los Angeles or not.

This is but one reason Humanity is shit

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:15:00 -0500

This is but one reason Humanity is shit:

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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:02:00 -0500

biocanvas: Pyramidal neurons (the main excitatory cells used in...

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:55:47 -0500

biocanvas:

Pyramidal neurons (the main excitatory cells used in cognition) from the brain of a mouse.

Image by Celine Plachez, University of Maryland School of Medicine.

geocrusader80: UPDATE - Language Map of Europe for Twitter...

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:50:22 -0500

geocrusader80:

UPDATE - Language Map of Europe for Twitter users…According to this map, it looks as the users of Twitter tend to be located around major transportation infrastructures.

“Western Europe glows bright in the Twitterverse as the most linguistically diverse section of the world. Switzerland is a mix of blue (Italian), red (German), and purple (French), with some light blue (Dutch) shadings. Lime green (Catalan) emerges in northeast Spain. Twitter use seems to peter out in Europe somewhere east of the Czech Republic, but the service looks to be pretty popular in Moscow as it is lit up in teal (Russian).”

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/11/worlds-languages-according-twitter/44690/

This update has the language legend on the left.

“I really liked these maps both for their cartography but also for their demonstration that linguistic and national borders can be seen online as well. There has also been a tendency for fine scale mapping of Twitter data so it is nice to get a global perspective.”

http://owni.eu/2011/12/09/the-best-maps-of-2011/

“Particularly relevant to Spain is the dominance of yellow Catalan over pink Castilian in Catalonia, a fact which clearly illustrates Spain’s multilingual nature, and the centrality of language to Catalan identity.

The closeness of the modern world presents a clear motive for language-learning. When we have the means of global communication, why allow language to remain a barrier? As far as this concerns me, I find Fischer’s map genuinely inspirational: comparing the overlapping linguistic boundaries of continental Europe with the linguistically homogenous, grey UK makes me more determined than ever to dedicate myself to learning languages, in order to embrace the modern international identity.”

http://www.institutohemingway.com/Language-the-final-frontier-10291.html

Glee Sucks

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:04:19 -0500

Glee Sucks