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Inquisitive and harmless wyvern. Interested in human nature and human natures; cultural evolution and genetic evolution.
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The Meiji government translated 10,000 technical books (applied science, industry, etc). Then, Japan became an industrial powerhouse. Must be the greatest industrial policy inve...
What gives life meaning? Pew asked in 17 nations "what gives you meaning in life?": There's a big difference between Westerners and East Asians. 1. East Asians get less meaning...
We keep failing to take seriously the ideas sincerely believed by devout Muslims. Article on the ideas of Sinwar and other leaders of Hamas: They frequently talked of implementin...
Why so many wars in the Middle East? 1. Dictatorships. Wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen started in the 2011 Arab Spring as uprisings against autocrats -- the only way to change go...
French opinion on the rioters: 78% no impunity for minors 77% financial punishment against parents 75% strip dual nationals of French citizenship 71% reduce migration 69% cut soc...
Education is killing South Korea: -world's highest % go to college -costly cram schools -low share of vocational students (18% vs OECD average 44%) -> stress for students -> ad...
An old complaint against academia was that it promoted moral relativism. This now seems quaint and old fashioned. Turns out it encourages moral absolutism. Many students become se...
In the Nordic countries, PISA scores of students with at least one parent born in the country are ~55-80 points higher than those of "other students" (i.e. immigrants). Unselectiv...
Remarkable that despite decades of Foreign Aid money put into education systems, in many countries most 10-year-olds are illiterate. World Bank measures of illiteracy (euphemistic...