1. Loss of natural teeth by state. Hey Pete, can you guess which state takes first place? Connecticut is on the other end of the spectrum.
2. Unplanned attempts to quit smoking may work best.
3. The Monkey Chow Diaries: "Let them eat cake" was most definitely the wrong idea.
4. Jane Galt on Superman. So far carbon sequestration is the best idea.
5. How to tell a woman’s real age.
6. Here is an excellent essay on Indian reforms and why the outsourcing boom started.
7. Check out this updated link for Why Men Can’t Dance; many other hypotheses are there as well. Try Why I Don’t Care That Your Mother is Dead, for one, or how about Why Bond Villains Employ Dwarves?
Is Maine the first blue state on this list at #15? Whats actually funny is the percentage – 42%!
The Bond Villain-dwarf thing would be great if it were intended as a parody of evolutionary psychology. As an explanation, not so much.
A better question would be why they prefer sharks with lasers on their heads to simple, more efficient methods of killing. And a better answer is signalling, which can explain the dwarfs, the sharks with lasers on their heads, the large yachts, and the Dom Perignon ’55.
In the top 25 states in the teeth loss statistic, only two were blue in last year’s presidential election: Maine and Pennsylvania.
Yikes!
Are LDS members particularly diligent at dental hygiene?
Klug – interesting that you get so defensive when reading the article of a superior dancer.
RE Indian outsourcing. While they have become more educated, it seems as if the US labor force has become less educated!
The evolutionary psychology stuff is interesting to read but I am very sceptical of it in general. If
our genes influence our behaviour so much why didn’t we evolve a tendency to wash our hands? Or to bathe?
I imagine people with genes for hygeine would have a clear advantage over everyone else, even if they
couldn’t dance.
Duh! on the hands and don’t forget the neck.
Knees and elbows can, too.
I’ve thought lately about the idea of “human chow,” and I’ve read that Amerindians in the far north came up with something approximating that when they invented pemmican, a slow-to-spoil mixture of dried meat, rendered fat and berries. Humans can reportedly subsist off of pemmican for months at a time. The wild berries added to it supply enough ascorbic acid to prevent scurvy.
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