Richard Harper

@harpersnotes

I should probably leave comedy to the professionals.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Joined February 2009
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    Unemployed people have healthier bio markers than people employed in jobs that suck.

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    If any study of population genetics & race is considered "Nazi science," then why aren't anthropologists writing & circulating open letters against tenured geneticists at Harvard, such as David Reich, rather than untenured junior academics? Why punch down?

    Replying to @nntaleb
    you just can't get anything right can you? The reference was not to individuals but to "Nazi race science". I think the only specific individual I referred to in that exchange was Dr. Josef Mengele. Are you saying Dr. Mengele wasn't a Nazi?
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    6 hours ago

    UCSD's Geisel Library: Fantastic, I learned so much there.

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    Dec 20

    Female in outnumber males by approximately three to one, and have done so for more than a decade. More from :

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    Dec 10

    Study from GSAS PhD student Manvir Singh suggests shamans acted as the first professional class in human society

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    8 hours ago

    Let's lose Afghanistan and save $45 billion per year and lots of deaths and injuries

    "Arguments for continued involvement in Afghanistan largely fall into two overlapping categories. We a) owe it to our Afghan allies or b) Afghanistan will again become a terrorist haven if we leave. The problem is these positions are largely specious."
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    8 hours ago

    This is a very important point

    The neocon are all pretending that they intervened in Syria against Isis, not Assad and Iran
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    8 hours ago

    “The United States since 2001 has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars in the Middle East. Meanwhile, our infrastructure crumbles. Why shifting money into domestic needs is considered ‘populist’ rather than just commonsense, I will never understand.”

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    8 hours ago

    'But there isn't enough water on Mars for colonies' Here's 500 cubic miles of ice in one crater. HT

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    I thought the training other's armies was going to be abandoned after Vietnam. We're still warring with the consequences of having done so in Afghanistan. And re-arming the Iraqi army with arms now in Isis? The allies you train today may be your enemies tomorrow. Just say no.

    Trump's opposition to the covert CIA regime change program in Syria - in contrast to Hillary's vehement support for it (she criticized Obama for restricting it) - was one of the first & biggest reasons the CIA backed Clinton in 2016 & hated Trump
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  11. 9 hours ago

    Alien Covenant Prologue script, also by Kroft, .. (Dec 6th 2018.) ("Better to reign in Hell ..." - Paradise Lost.) (His most recent take. Adjusts his earlier views.)

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    Prometheus Script Reveals truth about Engineers, Black Goo and Deacon, .. (13 minutes. Jan. 2018.) (Never would've guessed.)

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  13. 14 hours ago

    Perhaps agriculture only happens when a former abundance of a region's game animals become almost completely hunted out for a couple of generations or more? -And humans weren't numerous or dense enough to cause widespread prey animal collapse until this inter-glacial period.

    Eemian agriculture?
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  14. Dec 20

    Mendelian Ransomization and vitamin D (four minute video, 2017) ..

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    Dec 20

    Mendelian Randomization integrating GWAS and eQTL data reveals genetic determinants of complex and clinical traits

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    Dec 20

    It's really hard for me to reconcile the claim that "ancient fiction doesn't talk about feelings" with the fact that the first word of the Iliad is "rage":

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    Dec 20

    NBC News: 100,000 Navy personnel had their information stolen by Chinese nationals, the largest federal prosecutor's office was targeted, and NASA was hit too in a stunning hacking campaign. Details here:

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    Dec 20

    Which is the smallest amount (among these) you would accept to leave Twitter (both reading & tweeting) for a year?

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    Dec 20

    Journals that charge APCs should not be allowed to call themselves . They should be called journals

    When I wrote to editors of a number of journals, asking them to better publicize ways authors could obtain waivers of APCs, none responded. Authors needing waivers often don't know how or feel entitled to seek them. Social inequalities in need addressing.
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    Dec 20

    2 days ago posted that she won't vote for white or male candidates in 2020. I pointed out this is racist and sexist. Yesterday she blocked me on Twitter. Today she called Boston College demanding they not have me back as adjunct faculty.

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