did you thump your chest and hurl vegetation until she presented her rump?
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
hurlin' vegetation baybehh
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks for the new yorker article. i watched the "gender" debate between pinker and elizabeth spelke for a class a few months ago (http://edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html). spelke kind of pwned pinker imo.
― strgn, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
as an only child, i don't really have any problem with julie and mark's forbidden lust
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
plus his hair:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/2005/0805/images/pinker1.jpg
― strgn, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Short postscript to moonship & Maria's posts yesterday: yeah I was on/off whether to bring up determinism too -- I'm pretty much pro, but (similar to what Maria said) then I'm then veering into metaphysics and I can't argue it well.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
in my mind, 'mismeasure-of-man' (not 'determinism') is the key word moonship brings up in relation to evolutionary bio and everything mentioned in this thread so far that i can make heads or tails of. and not just 'mismeasure,' but the practices of science, beyond 'mis'.. i'm just diving into sts at this point (bruno latour etc), but it's helping me dig on the idea of the practice of science in sociological (where it all begins amirite) systems. (disclaimer: liberal arts major speaking).
― strgn, Thursday, 12 June 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
full disclosure of bias: i majored in anthropology & sociology, and am applying to grad schools in archaeology. so i'm not an expert but i am opinionated! (and irritated by the "it's either science or bullshit" point of view.)
that's kind of amazing hair, by the way. i would probably want to believe someone who looked like that if i saw him talk. i've only read the blank slate, thought it was interesting. (my father actually found it comforting. he said it meant his parenting could only screw us up so far, and he was glad to be not totally responsible for how we turned out. thanks, dad!)
― Maria, Thursday, 12 June 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha, reading The Stuff of Thoughts yesterday, I saw something that made me wonder if he's an ilxor lurker: talking about datives etc, he used the example sentence (something like)
Norm was given the pashmina
-- which struck me as an unlikely name/object combination to occur in two places independently... :)
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 19 September 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
peven stinker
― mark s, Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
Lolita Express passenger!
http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
Me (dumb guy): They wrote "exposes Pecker." Heh, heh.You (smart guy): Thanks to my graduate degree in psycholoinguistics and studies with Noam Chomsky, I notice they wrote "exposes Pecker." Heh, heh. https://t.co/e5yE5ovYVG— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 10, 2019
― j., Sunday, 10 February 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
I thought this book review did a good job of summarizing his strengths and weaknesses as a writer (see the second half):
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/07/pinker-rosling-progress-accentuate-positive/
― o. nate, Monday, 11 February 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
lol pic.twitter.com/BeAzo1FLoM— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) August 6, 2023
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 August 2023 21:39 (eight months ago) link
Peven Stinker strikes again
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 6 August 2023 21:59 (eight months ago) link
would love to see this dude meet a horrific violent end
― brimstead, Sunday, 6 August 2023 22:01 (eight months ago) link