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• Why Do Very Smart People Often Tend to Be Quiet?

  The original question was, Why Are Some Extremely Smart People Extremely Quiet?” You can read the thread here on Quora, incidentally one of my favorite sites. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Quick and Dirty Definition of Wiscom

  Wisdom = (something like this): Accurate Pattern observance and formation. Accurate pattern recognition. Accurate hypothesis creation. Accurate hypothesis... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Dônđän Wu Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Min Nan Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Mandarin Language

  This piece ran earlier, but it underwent a huge revision to improve it and this is the new, improved version in case you missed it the first time.Method and... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Cantonese Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Skolt Sami Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Classical Japanese Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Tamil Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• RIP David Bowie

  Wow, that really hit me with a shock.He had been very ill with cancer for the last 18 months, but they had kept it a pretty good secret. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bigfoot News Holidays 2015 Edition

  

  Honestly, I do not have the foggiest idea what that is. But the more I look at it, the more I think that is a Sasquatch. Look at that thing. It has no... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sly and the Family Stone, “Everybody Is a Star”

  

  That’s Sly and his brother and sister Freddy and Rose along with Larry Graham on vocals. Cynthia Robinson was playing trumpet. She’s one of the greatest female... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Latin America Has to Fight and Win!” by Andre Vitchek

  If you want to know what is going on in Latin America right now, this is all you have to read. What’s funny is that I have been telling the truth about Latin... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Am I Conservative Or Liberal?

  joku:vaan writes:So how you define liberal or conservative? From the perspective of your typical Leftist liberal, guys like Robert Lindsay are pretty... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Interview with Me Up

  This is not really an interview with me – instead I am one of the interviewers. Nevertheless I had quite a bit to say about the Alt Left, since it is one of my... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Are Stupid (But You Knew That)

  A 2010 study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, for example, found that the IQs of young adults who described themselves as... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Commenter Steve’s New Blog

  A Bee in My Bonnet.It only has one post so far, one about the deplorable sex attacks in Cologne and other cities in France on New Year’s Eve. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Repost: New Movie About the Fake Holodomor

  Those of you who are not familiar with the Holodomor lie that holds that 7-10 million Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death by Stalin in 1932-1933 in... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Robert Stark Interviews Alt Left Writer Randall Burns

  Here.This is a most interesting interview. It was conducted by email and not by voice over Internet radio so there is only a transcript and nothing to listen to... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Malayalam Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY