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...Minutes: Your ideas are intuitive but not obvious. How do you come up with them? Do they dawn on you while you’re making breakfast or are you a slave to your desk until you’ve got one? (i.e is it like turning on a light bulb or pounding in a nail?)Steven Pinker: Nail, definitely nail. I notice things but I only understand them when I try to write about them.2. FM: Speaking of analogies, yours make your theories very accessible. Where do those come from?SP: I’m actually trying to study...
...University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven-block stretch. "Two years ago this place was packed like sardines," she says. "You couldn't move. Either you got run over by [police] horses or climbed on light poles...
...stayed for the full two hours debating with the man on the stepladder. I asked the man holding the less-offensive sign (John 14:6) what they hoped to accomplish by talking to a crowd of inebriated people in costume. “We’re shining the light of the Lord into this dark place,” he explained. When I asked Eric why he stayed and debated, he shrugged: “They caught me having...
...approach,” Lalueza-Fox said. While Neanderthals followed a different evolutionary path to their redheaded appearance than modern humans, their pale skin and red hair provided certain advantages comparable to that of northern Europeans today. At high altitudes, where there is less UV radiation, homo sapiens have light skin to help absorb sufficient Vitamin D for healthy bones. Red hair has no apparent evolutionary advantage, although some have suggested that it could be useful for sex selection, according to Lalueza-Fox. “From experience, the Darwinian fitness of redheads is exceptionally high,” redhead...
...Simpson. However, the last known blackmail case involving a member of the royal family was successfully hushed up for many years. In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son to King Edward VII, paid £ 200 to secure indiscreet letters he had sent to a prostitute. The case came to light only five years ago when a letter to his lawyer was sold at auction...