Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

Psychology, evolution, science, etc. The paperback edition of my second book, The Ape That Understood the Universe, hit the shelves in 2019.

United Kingdom
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2009.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. Original Article: People who use alternative therapies are more likely to refuse conventional treatments. As a result, they have lower survival rates. (N = 1,901,815) Note that the researchers controlled for cancer type, clinical stage, comorbidities, etc.

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  2. One of the most important events in the history of the planet – an event that caused forests to turn into fields, skyscrapers to sprout from the ground, and footprints to appear on the moon. And we don't really know what drove it! Figure:

  3. An aluminium-foil boat floating in sulfur hexafluoride: a colourless gas that's heavier than air (and that makes your voice deeper if you breathe it in – it's basically the opposite of helium).

  4. 3. velj

    Another viral animal video that makes me wonder whether psychologists have been seriously underestimating the cognitive abilities of our furry cousins.

  5. 3. velj

    The evolution of intelligence in humans and other great apes, estimated by blood flow to the brain. All the great apes have gotten smarter since our last common ancestor; we've just taken the trend much further.

  6. 2. velj

    A pufferfish deflating. When threatened, pufferfish rapidly suck in enough water to make themselves much larger and harder to eat: a great big inedible ball. As a backup plan, most also contain tetrodotoxin, which for humans is 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide. Cute, though!

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    Natural selection builds mechanisms that human engineers still struggle to match. Exhibit A: The neural structures underpinning head stabilization in this hawk. (Head stabilization has the same function as image stabilization in cameras: to maintain a steady view despite motion.)

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    This is the kind of muddled conclusion people reach when they start thinking of groups of people as individuals, rather than focusing on actual individuals: It's OK for this woman to abuse this man because *other* men abused other women in the past.

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    The fact that hundreds of millions of people have been spared the agony of losing a child - or of dying themselves as children - is surely the single greatest humanitarian achievement of our species.

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    Wow, this is incredible: A guy controlling a robotic arm with his mind at a distance 😮 Ten years ago, this would have been science fiction; now it's science fact. Wonder where we'll be in another ten years...

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    "Suppose you spent all your copious free time as a scientist activating for climate change, working as a drug addiction counselor, teaching in prisons, or saving endangered species. None of that counts." [4/4]

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    "The game is no longer to advance candidates who are themselves 'diverse.' The game is to stock the faculty with people of a certified ideological stripe, who are committed to advancing this cause. Tom Sowell need not apply." [3/4]

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    "Before the twitter mob goes nuts, the point today is the nature of the diversity statement. I'm not arguing against 'diversity' either in its plain English sense, or in its current political meaning as a euphemism for racial, gender and sexual-identity quotas." [2/4]

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    Wokeademia "You can disagree with classical liberals but still agree they should not be forced, as a condition of employment, to abjure their beliefs, express other beliefs, and participate in activities that advance other political views." [1/4]

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  15. 31. sij

    "Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the “spring forward” to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year." Original Article:

  16. 31. sij

    When we think about the solar system, we tend to imagine a stationary sun surrounded by planets in circular orbits. Here's a more accurate way to view things...

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    Homeopathic firefighter

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    Can you be too smart for your own good? Apparently not. For some measures, greater intelligence in youth is associated with somewhat better outcomes later in life; for others, it's unrelated. But it's almost never associated with *worse* outcomes.

  19. 31. sij

    Children's answers to the question "What is politics?" HT

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