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Biomimicry & The Ideal Free Distribution

2020.02.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
A complex, biologically inspired motorcycle frame.

Biomimicry is a complicated attempt to arrive at the simple, natural solutions that result from the Ideal Free Distribution.

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Posted in: Biology, Books, Medicine Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Sociobiology

Kicking the Can Down the Road, Cementing Cans

2019.03.04 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Kicking the can down the road, cementing cans.

When citizens want one thing and lobbyists want another, often we end up kicking the can down the road; we should be cementing cans after they’re kicked.

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Posted in: Medicine, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Partisan Politics

Trump’s Narcissism and the Goldwater Rule

2018.11.24 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment
Trump's narcissism, Goldwater rule

Donald Trump’s narcissism is a large concern, but so is the Goldwater Rule, which insists that we should ignore the 300 pound menace in the Oval Office.

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Posted in: Medicine, Politics Tagged: Medicine, Partisan Politics, Trump

Human Genetic Behavior

2017.07.31 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

…And this is why I have foolishly chosen to discuss the taboos of genetic behavior, and ethnic and sexual norms; not to chain people to stereotypes, but to free us all from them. We must recognize our genetic tendencies in order to design around them, and past them; as Bertolt Brecht noted, “When there are obstacles, the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line.”

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Posted in: Biology, Education, Knowledge, Medicine Tagged: Lifelong Learning, Sociobiology, Wisdom

Advice for New Parents

2017.07.20 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments
Child Reading, New Parents

Advice for New Parents: ‘Read to your children’; how an ER doc became a primary care doc, and began changing the world.

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Posted in: Books, Education, Medicine Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Medicine, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

Gender Equity & Pointless Ambition

2017.07.06 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Too often, gender equity pursues a masculine success of domination and pointless ambition, ironically making ‘equal rights’ offensively anti-egalitarian.

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Posted in: Biology, Education, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Wisdom

Sexual Genetics

2017.07.03 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter, a challenge to sexual stereotypes

Sexual Genetics: differences between boys and girls exist, on average. Insisting that the differences are universal, or that they are nonexistent, are both unjust.

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Posted in: Biology, Education, Medicine Tagged: Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Wisdom

Human Prosperity

2017.06.26 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments

Human prosperity has increased dramatically in the past 100 years. But we tend to focus on the glitzy technology, and overlook the big reasons for it.

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Posted in: Biology, Knowledge, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Medicine

Outrageous Lebanese Genetics

2017.06.19 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Lebanese Genetics sounds boring, but the Lebanese may be the most stereotypical ethnic group around, an inheritance from the Phoenicians.

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Posted in: Biology, Medicine Tagged: Medicine, Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Wisdom

Morality as Survival

2016.07.27 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

We tell ourselves, and others, one reason for why we do things, but our choices often betray other, more convincing reasons. Sometimes the secondary reason helps us see morality as survival. This is a serialization from my book, Happiness: A Physician/Biologist Looks at Life. To see the Table of Contents and the dust jacket blurb, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Biology, Books, Medicine Tagged: Happiness: A Physician/Biologist Looks at Life, Sociobiology, Wisdom
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