Saturday 20 March 2010
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Pic courtesy Jetstar I thought I had retired, gentle reader, but now I’m working for Jetstar. I haven’t flown with them for a while, and the...
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It's difficult, gentle reader, to ignore the soap opera in train across the Pacific, and once again, I am drawn like a moth to the fla...
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Fascism as a political movement exhibits four basic criteria. First, fascism it is not an ideology, but an activity. Secondly, it...
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Courtesy www.statesman.com I found this posted in Facebook a few weeks ago, when the faux outrage about mandated vaccination first began to ...
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Completely and utterly off topic, but interesting nonetheless:
http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-05-09/opinion/17294721_1_self-control-experiment-human-nature
I'd heard of this before - and it is hardly a surprising result. I guess the interesting part would be the explanation for this -
"Their performance varied widely. Some broke down and rang the bell within a minute. Others lasted 15 minutes."
I'm sure it's learned skill - the army taught me that - but what part of the early upbringing of those four year-olds explains the wide variation in performance? Nature or nurture - or a combination of both? Maybe some of the kids didn't like marshmallows?
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