Gavan Tredoux
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Data Science & Statistics, Sir Francis Galton, Sir Richard Francis Burton, JBS Haldane, Behavior Genetics. Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
St Louis, MO
Joined June 2009
1. Francis Galton invented a digital printing electric telegraph, explored the blank spots of Africa, wrote a best-selling book on the Art of Travel, and the instructions which accompanied Burton and Speke in search of the Nile.
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What absolute twaddle. Completely made up numbers.
#Otd 1649: Cromwell sailed for Dublin with 35 ships. Ireton landed 2 days later with 77! By end war <41% Irish population died (some say 83%!). Also transported c 50,000 as 'indentured labourers' & war resulted in famine, worsened by bubonic plague! Brutal
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Surely an opening for a business supplying a team of skunks to deploy strategically. Or their essence.
A visibly drunken vagrant blocked the entrance to our office today for several hours, trapping staff inside and refusing to let staff into the building. It took nearly three hours and multiple calls to police to get a “totally wasted and belligerent” vagrant who was openly.
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After Niels Bohr fled by way of Sweden to the USA in 1943, one of his first major acts was to meet with Churchill and later with Roosevelt to urge them to share the Manhattan project with the USSR, so that there would not be an arms race (!) and "trust" between the allies would
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Another way to sanity check crime in the UK is the current clearance rates for common offenses. These are astonishingly low. For example, Burglary (residential) 3.9%. Now if crime has gone down so much, that should free up a whole lot of police time. Doesn't look like it's being.
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Interestingly the Oneida cult had more members in Connecticut, where Noyes was based, than they had in their Oneida location. Noyes is a very perceptive analyst, suggesting that a large part of the fervor leading up to the Civil War was driven by the same forces which gave rise.
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John Humphrey Noyes was a very interesting character. He invented "viriculture" completely independently of Galton and practiced it in his Oneida cult (you, go with her). After his death the cult reinvented itself in the best American tradition as a cutlery manufacturing
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One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable. ---François Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
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"We are driven back once more to the conclusion that potential genius is probably about as frequent in one class as in another, and that it emerges in the ratio of its total opportunities.". L.F.WARD, 1906, citing J.M.Robertson. Applied Sociology. Boston: Ginn & Co.
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One of George Orwell's more eccentric turns, after he had "gone native" in his own country, was to defend English cooking.
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Niels Bohr can shed some light on the emerging turn against biology in the 1930s. The physicist was invited to address the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Copenhagen, Elsinore, August 1938. [Printed in Nature, 143, 268 (1939) and his
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'In so far" is an important qualifier here. "Self-control and even conscience seem to be much more modifiable by the influence of education than is intelligence. [So] it seems to be the function of the teacher to form character and to find out about intelligence. In so far as.
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The history of these developments is poorly understood. "Garth (1931), in Race Psychology (McGraw Hill) initiated a reaction against the genetic interpretation of race differences in intelligence. He asserted an environmentalist position that rapidly became the prevailing.
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I adore Anthony Powell, but here he has bought a pig in a poke. But then he did believe in planchette and all that stuff. ". Churchill's neglected childhood left him with a passionate ambition, a ferocious disregard for the feelings of other people, and fits of depression.
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At least, the latter private letter was *published* in 1954. Can't remember when it was dated.
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Most have forgotten that during one of his many wild swings of opinion, Bertrand Russell advocated preemptively nuking the USSR before it was too late and they had the bomb too. That was in 1948 and it was a straightforward argument: the Soviets were a threat to civilization,
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The Situation in Biological Science, proceedings of the famous Lysenkoite conference of 1948, published the following year. Reading the speeches is like attending a faculty meeting. Only with Gulag sanctions thrown in. Down with Mendelist-Morganists and their metaphysical
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The movie "Infinity" romanticizes the life of Ramanujan, a curious Indian mathematician highly rated by GH Hardy (badly played by Jeremy Irons). The most interesting thing about it is that it invents out of whole cloth a scene at a railway station during WWI in which
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Every man will dispute with great good humour upon a subject in which he is not interested. --- Samuel JOHNSON IN BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON, 1781.
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