"Discussing American science literacy without mentioning evolution is intellectual malpractice" that "downplays the controversy"…
[Rajen Sheth, Google Apps senior product manager] suggested that customers upgrade their browsers to pretty much anything else.
For a species so famous for being adaptable to its environment, we certainly abhor change. Especially a change that involves any amount of money being spent.
For the record: my own jury is still out about this whole iPad thing; and/but for what it's worth, any praise and/or criticism from anyone that hasn't actually yet used the thing… Well, there's this little thing called credibility.
Salinger's other books don't equal the influence or sales of "Catcher," but they are still read, again and again, with great affection and intensity. Critics, at least briefly, rated Salinger as a more accomplished and daring short story writer than John Cheever.
…makes me want to read the rest of his werks.
As children grow older, they become more selective in their helpfulness. Starting around age 3, they will share more generously with a child who was previously nice to them. Another behavior that emerges at the same age is a sense of social norms.
I constantly make judgments about whether people I meet are smart, just like I constantly make judgments about whether people I see are attractive.
“Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you think our guys could have invented, say, credit default swaps? Give me a break! They couldn’t have done the math.”
Fucking smart guys…
…and here sit the 28 percent of the American people who still thought Mr. Bush was doing a heckuva job at the end, gnashing their teeth, hoping and praying for something horrible to happen such as an infestation of locusts or the disappearance of the sun, something to make the president look bad, which is not a good place for a political party to be, hoping for the country to slide into chaos. When you bet against America, you are choosing long odds.
I am dutifully reporting that I am swiping and re-posting this as it appears here in Precious Roy’s Flickr photostream:
The description that appears under the photo on Flickr:
The title was: “What happened to the dinosaurs?”
(bonus points for the elephant humping the dino/reptile, though)
Keith and I were two of the judges at the science fair at the elementary school today.
Wow. Just… Wow!
Why do we use floats for layout, anyway? clear. That’s pretty much the whole answer. The unique in-flow/out-of-flow nature of floats means they interact with each other and with the normal flow, which means they can be cleared, which makes them useful.
First and foremost: an uncritical read of this book will leave you feeling cynical and a bit cheated. It ranks up there with E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene[1]. It would be very easy to find yourself getting defensive about the material presented in here; especially if you believe humans to be some special exception among animals.
Meanwhile, with a more critical approach, you will find that you cannot get Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal
Don’t ask about their intentions though; we need to remember that evolution is goal-less, after all. Put most succinctly:
We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.
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