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Intolerance vs Intolerance

2018.09.02 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

I would enthusiastically support ‘Story Time by the LGBT+ Community.’ I do not support ‘Drag Queen Story Time.’ My concern is one of intolerance vs intolerance.

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Posted in: Books, Education Tagged: Anger Mongering, Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative, Tolerance

The 10 Books Everyone Should Read

2017.12.13 by Bookscrounger 5 Comments

What are the 10 books that every well educated person should read? It depends on the definition of ‘well educated’.

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Posted in: Books, Education, Knowledge Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Lifelong Learning, Teaching, Wisdom

Human Connections: Social Matrix Algebra

2017.11.01 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

We don’t readily understand the complex ways we are all tied together; social matrix algebra, a matrix algebra practical application, can help.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Partisan Politics, Wisdom

What to Say to a Rape Victim

2017.08.03 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
What to say to a rape victim, to someone who struggles with violaton and shame

What do you say to the rape victim, what can you tell her that might help her begin the process of healing? After 30 years in the emergency room, this is my best attempt.

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Medicine, Wisdom

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

Temporary Insanity

2017.06.29 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
Anger, rage, temporary insanity

Temporary insanity affects us all, at stages in our lives and at points in our day. It is an example of how we struggle against our genetic behaviors.

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Posted in: Biology, Education Tagged: Anger Mongering, Sociobiology, Wisdom

The Bookscrounger Returns

2017.06.05 by Bookscrounger 9 Comments
Monkey Reading a book in a tree.

I’m back, the Bookscrounger returns. Where I’ve been, and where we’re going.

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Posted in: Biology, Books, Education Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Football Mentality, Small Evolution, Sociobiology, Teaching, Wisdom
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