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In Defense of Cousin-Marriage
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In Defense of Cousin-Marriage
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According to Robin Fox, a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, it's likely that 80 percent of all marriages in history have been between second cousins or closer but the practice has fallen out of favor in recent times [^1]. American law in particular treats first-cousin marriage as l...
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How Random am I?
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How Random am I?
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# Human vs. Computer Random Number Generation I've always thought I could be a good random number generator. Let's compete against an actual random number generator and see how random we really are. To make patterns easier to detect, I chose numbers from **1–5** instead of **1–100**. With fewer po...
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Obsession: a twisted love [Movie Review]
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Obsession: a twisted love [Movie Review]
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Obsession is a 2025 supernatural horror film with tinges of comedy. Bear, the protagonist, is unable to confess his unrequited love to Nikki, a friend and his fellow employee at a music store. He then wishes unbelieving that she would “love him more than anyone else in the world” over a one-wish wil...
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Towns
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Towns
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I often find a place to sit and listen to the conversations around me in libraries in towns I visit. Once, in Aspen, I heard a tutor questioning a student about the influence of Machiavelli's background and audience on "The Prince". And another time in a queer part of Arizona, I heard an animated di...
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Captain Fantastic: a review
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Captain Fantastic: a review
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Captain Fantastic is a film that unites both sides of the education debate to see their views reflected on screen. Advocates of homeschooling and unschooling point to the children's intellectual development, broad knowledge, and capacity for independent thought. Supporters of traditional schooling, ...
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The Far Rim
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The Far Rim
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Though the Colorado River proceeds roughly north to south, in Arizona it veers east to west, forming the two rims of the Grand Canyon. The South Rim, benefiting from its proximity to larger cities and transportation routes, is the more accessible of the two. Each year it receives roughly four millio...
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May I correct you?
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May I correct you?
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It is a common teacher's joke to respond to a student who asks, “Can I go to the bathroom?” by correcting them and saying they should ask, “May I go to the bathroom?”. Teachers seem to view the joke as both humorous and important but neither the student’s brain nor his bladder appreciates the distin...
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What if Gru Stole the Moon
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What if Gru Stole the Moon
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In *Despicable Me*, Gru famously steals the Moon. The film treats this primarily as a logistics problem, but the consequences would extend far beyond astronomy. The Moon is responsible for most of Earth's tidal forces, and its sudden disappearance would immediately alter coastlines, ecosystems, ship...
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Embryo Genetic Selection
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Embryo Genetic Selection
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With 1 in 36 babies being born through [in vitro fertilization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation) every year, IVF has been firmly established as reproductive healthcare [1]. Each potential baby is screened for gross genetic disease but otherwise the embryo to implant is usually a...
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Guilt
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Guilt
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Guilt is an emotion you feel when you believe you have caused harm or committed a violation of morality. The brain self-polices even when an infringement is unproved by the rational brain. Guilt attempts to fix the past by punishing the self in the present. Instead of guilt, separate yourself entir...
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Cramming is rational
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Cramming is rational
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Teachers often excoriate students for using cramming as a strategy lamenting the students laziness to use a method that prioritizes extreme short-term retention over long term retention. Psychological science has long confirmed that cramming is inefficient as a strategy for long term learning but th...
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Evolution as a universal force
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Evolution as a universal force
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Almost everyone has heard of Darwin's famous theory that natural variation of traits combines with an adverse competitive environment produces evolutionary selection. It is obvious that animals compete with other species --- humans are no different. But within human societies the same pattern emer...
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Time value of lives
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Time value of lives
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In economics, a fundamental realization came from the idea that future money is worth less than money today.[^1] This is due to the fact that money today has more opportunity — e.g. it could grow due to interest — so a dollar today is "worth" more than a dollar in twenty years. In philosophy, many ...
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You can... just solve some of your problems
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You can... just solve some of your problems
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For a long time, I have been annoyed with the ads on spotify music; In the middle of some relaxing music, comes an annoying blaring ad reminding me about the value of spotify premium. It took me about 20 minutes to solve a problem I have had for years --- My solution was to generate a csv to get my ...
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The Power Process
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The Power Process
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My thoughts on morality have drifted so severely that I cannot in good faith call it "amoral egoism" anymore. In premise form the moral system is very simple: ### P1: Influence and Authority For any moral system to have real authority it must have the ability to influence human behavior. A mor...
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Amoral egoism
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Amoral egoism
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It is obvious that individuals commit actions. These actions are motivated by their desires and their self-interest—for example committing charity improves one’s self-image. Pyotr Kropotkin in an anarchists morality said “If the man who gives away his last shirt found no pleasure in doing so, he wou...
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Quotes and Anecdotes
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Quotes and Anecdotes
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# Quotes of Interest > “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” — [Captain Jack Sparrow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sparrow) > “Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” — [C. S. Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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Marvel is better than DC
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Marvel is better than DC
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So I know a lot of people on YouTube say that they prefer DC over marvel, and I don’t know why. One reason they said was that they have better games. That’s not a good argument because the only good games are Arkham Batman games and have you seen the slate of marvel games for the coming years? Marve...
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It is what it is
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It is what it is
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A couple weeks ago a friend of mine missed a flight. They shrugged and said “it is what it is”. I’ll admit it when you hear such a phrase the words feel thin, and worn. But this is partially due to the overuse of the phrase which distracts from its real meaning. At first glance “it is what it is” l...