How many of today's shootings and stabbings don't end up as murders because of modern medicine?

Mark Pagel came out for race realism: 
 
http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_2.html#pagel

If the intent is actual education then they should make classes less relevant to the modern world.

I recently saw somwhere a picture of a neanderthal skeleton side by side with a regular skeleton, and the knees on the neanderthal looked knobby as hell.

I stumbled across this 'analysis' of the Flynn effect by John Horgan, a former senior science writer at Scientific American, and thought that some here might find it amusing: 
 
http://www.stevens.edu/csw/cgi-bin/blogs/scientific_curmudgeon/?p=39

"I don't think you can ever get enough traffic safety" 
 
The essence of the modern American educational experience crystallized in one sentence.

I think you're right. It's the kids who started using cells at an earlier age. If only they knew - or could understand - how boring they are.  
 
And soon those tiny eyepiece video monitors will be everywhere...

"walking on a college campus is a surreal experience, gone are the days when a stroll between buildings entailed a possible encounter with a stranger, eye contact with humans of unknown provenance. Rather, it is a time when you withdraw into a familiar cocoon and pull out the cell phone to talk to those who are near and dear" 
 
I was on the campus of my alma mater a few weeks ago and as I strolled about I was stunned by exactly what you describe: almost every student on a cell phone, or listening to an ipod, or texting on cell phone while listening to an ipod. The concentration of people doing this was surreal for me, I felt like a spaceman visiting another planet (a feeling heightend by the fact that as far as I could see I was the only man on campus wearing a suit).

This guy has an amusing take on the edge question: 
 
http://writingstatic.blogspot.com/2006/01/most-dangerously-banal-ideas-of-2006.html

The first time I saw a photo (black and white) of my Norwegian grandfather when he was young I can remember asking my dad "Who's the Chinese guy?" It's just how some Norwegians look, and it doesn't remind one (or me, at least) of Asians if they are blond or older. My blond haired uncles and father, for example, have eye features that strongly resemble my grandfathers, yet you would never say their eyes looked Asian, you would only say their eyes looked puffy.

He sired the mothers of Storm Cat, AP Indy, and Gone West.

I've never gotten around to reading it but this is the definitive book on the subject: 
 
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/reviews/MILANA_R.html

In Seattle, parents of high-achieving students are threatening to boycott the state academic standard test (which would potentially put certain schools out of no child left behind compliance) if spending on programs for gifted children isn't changed...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2001786513_boycott09.html

I've found good gamblers get this right when first asked. If you can't figure it out simply write out all the posibilites for a scenario when the prize is behind a given door...

I don't see why it is necesscary or rational to transform changes in cultural traits over time from a human process into a process where the cultural traits themselves are responsible for the changes, i.e. "Dawkins points out the corollary that, like genes, memes are essentially selfish. The properties that we expect memes to evolve are those that enhance their own survival and reproduction". Dawkins gives as examples of memes as tunes, catch-phrases, clothes, fashions, ways of making pots. So then I suppose it's reasonable to say "Pants are essentally selfish. The properties we expect pants to evolve are those that enhance their own survival and reproduction." Or "The phrase "bling bling" is essentially selfish. The properties we expect the phrase "bling bling" to evolve are those that enhances its own survival and reproduction."

Ted Bundy had a high IQ. Just a thought.

As someone who is a big fan of Stove (and who agrees with his takedown of Popper) I think it should be pointed out that Stove did believe in evolution, and thought Darwin was one of the most brilliant thinkers who ever lived. That he then writes a book called "Darwinian Fairytales" (which is mostly an attack on certain assertions of Neo-Darwinists) is, well, classic Stove.

Jason

He was also an atheist.