love thy vulva

How I learned to cast off shame and love my vulva

это The Guardian, дружок

там же: Why sniffing your partner’s used clothing could make you happier

to hate Donald Trump

ZeroHedge цитирует Op-Ed в WSJ:

This all leads to an important question—one that will be dismissed indignantly today, but not by historians in the long run: Is it possible to hate Donald Trump but not the average American?

- WSJ Op-Ed Cracks The Code: Why Liberal Intellectuals Hate Trump

как говорится, с похвальной прямотой

local copy / перевод / жж

euphemism

born on the wrong slope of the bell curve - The Nurture Assumption, стр. 128

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth
To hear your child make such a fuss.
It isn’t fair—it’s not the truth—
He’s fucked up, yes, but not by us.

see also This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

Евзерихин

Эммануил Ноевич Евзерихин

two quotes

Heaven grant that this Burthen you carry, whatsoever it is, may have as easy an out–coming as it had an in–going.

- Desiderius Erasmus, The Colloquies vol. 1, To a Woman with Child.

"When an astronomer tells me that he has discovered a new planet, I would be the last man to brush the fly off the end of his telescope."

- God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer

hotfreebooks

техника

это новый мост через Делавер, штат Нью-Йорк, Upper Delaware Scenic Byway

Naughty Sweetie

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me

from the album The Fabulous Sidney Bechet

@ Jazz 101

прохладно

12°C

deepity

Deepities and the Politics of Pseudo-Profundity

see also Deepity (Rational Wiki, many examples) and This column will change your life: deepities (Гвардеец, как обычно дурацкая статья, но кстати упомянут тов. П. Коэльо).

gender bender

. Transgender cyclist says there is "absolutely no evidence that I have an unfair advantage" after winning women's world championship
. If misandry and misogyny become hate crimes, that covers the whole of the human race.

конечно не я придумал, Google возвращает About 7,530,000 results

вот, к примеру, из Urban dictionary

how very interesting


вот еще Actress and comedian Amy Schumer said that she felt “really bad” for women that are more attractive than her in a recent podcast appearance.


meanwhile Hungary's far-right Prime Minister bans gender studies at university because it is 'an ideology not a science'

see also Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much)

Пшезьдзецкий конец

Подолгу зависая над этим замечательным романом, немногие знают, что польский драматург, писатель, сценарист и филантроп Пшезьдзецкий до сих пор жив, ему 91 год.

@ Сергей Лукьяненко




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последние лучи солнца

Последние лучи солнца, Осиновый лес. Исаак Левитан, 1897

фото: Paramus, NJ, © yhs, Nov 2009

on Plomin's Blueprint

Families and schools are what we think of as “nurture” and one interpretation of Blueprint is to see it as a salvo in the ongoing nature-nurture debate—a devastating, war-winning salvo. But it doesn’t follow that Plomin thinks the environment, as distinct from nurture, has no effect on the way people turn out.

The environmental inputs that matter most, according to him, are what he calls our “non-shared” experiences—“unsystematic, idiosyncratic, or serendipitous events,” often mediated by our genetic predispositions. So when Plomin says genetics is by far the greatest systematic force in making us who we are, he isn’t saying the environment has no effect. It’s just that the environmental inputs that do have an impact are, for the most part, unsystematic.

- Is Sociogenomics Racist?

статья довольно занудная. почему-то в Quilette сплошной лонгрид, надо бы сузить.

homeopathy of racial identity

Elizabeth Warren Carries Native American DNA – She’s Running!

the best comment is by Chris:

The homeopathy of racial identity.

Also its amusing that people who believe race is a social construct and also believe that a DNA test can discern minuscule components of one’s biogeographical heritage (which it clearly can), and even more alarmingly think that such a tiny genetic component might have moral, practical or political significance.

Elizabeth Warren <0.1% native = native.
Chimpanzees 98.8% human = ?

@StefanMolyneux

What Are We Like

What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature:

. We view minorities and the vulnerable as less than human
. We already experience schadenfreude at the age of four
. We believe in Karma – assuming that the downtrodden of the world must deserve their fate
. We are blinkered and dogmatic
. We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts
. We are vain and overconfident
. We are moral hypocrites
. We are all potential trolls
. We favour ineffective leaders with psychopathic traits
. We are sexually attracted to people with dark personality traits

lots of links to original research

настроение

replicated findings

Finding 7. Most measures of the “environment” show significant genetic influence

How can measures of the environment show genetic influence? The reason appears to be that such measures do not assess the environment independent of the person. As noted earlier, humans select, modify, and create environments correlated with their genetic behavioral propensities such as personality and psychopathology.

...

Finding 9. Most environmental effects are not shared by children growing up in the same family

It is reasonable to think that growing up in the same family makes brothers and sisters similar psychologically, which is what developmental theorists from Freud onwards have assumed. However, for most behavioral dimensions and disorders, it is genetics that accounts for similarity among siblings.

- Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics by Plomin et al.

see also Commentary: Why are children in the same family so different? Non-shared environment three decades later

Salary Man

Salary Man                  Kindergarten Teacher   Dancers

From the series "Showa Shokugyo E-zukushi" ("Pictures of Vocations in Showa Era"), Vol.1. No. 22. "Salary Man".

By Sanzo Wada 1883-1968

Salaried workers in a commuter train. They are called "Salary Man" in Japan and basically regarded as hapless being.

This print series which depicted the new and the old, dying occupations in Japan in early to mid 20th Century was very popular and even featured on the Asahi Newspapers every time the new design was published. The series was interrupted by W.W.II. After the war, Kyoto Hanga-in made the continuation of the series as limited editions.

сила существительных

Ветер осени
В воду опрокинуты
Краски неба

@ сила существительных

girl’s racist poem

Girl’s racist poem sparks row in southwestern Germany - это BBC, google возвращает первой строкой при поиске "Ida Marie Müller".

еще один англоязычный источник, проявивший к событию интерес, и замеченный google - St. Lucia Times Online News, там поместили материал с почти таким же заголовком: Girl’s racist poem sparks row in Germany. приятно видеть, что маленький остров в Карибском море проявляет живой интерес к событиям в Европе.

остальные ссылки на странице - на материалы на самых разных языках, английского больше нет. вот Радио Свобода: "Не нашел девушку, пустил в дело нож". Расистские стихи разделили Германию