IC4RUS

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by IC4RUS 8y ago
You're making the assumption that all smart students would want to go and make money (if smart is even a good proxy for skills among college grads). Some are motivated by other considerations, such as impact of work and work/life
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
It actually a fairly large leap, considering that caffeine can impair sleep quality, causing more fatigue or fatigued people could be consuming caffeine to reduce the fatigue. In many people, both may be happening, so teasing out the direct
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
These are certainly bad, but generally well-documented historically. I don't formally study history, but have read about most of these.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
This is a good point - and something ignored by some advocates of universal healthcare (I'm partial to the idea of universal healthcare, but would like to see more honest debate of the issue).
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
Which books? I've read through a fair number of history books published in the US, and they have tended to have a strong focus on the problems caused by colonization while criticizing the idea of 'saving' the locals.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
That's true, but the core explanation is not likely to be what the original poster described.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
That's true, I just meant to express (over-simplistically) that he argued that the mechanism is at the gene-level, which is even farther away from group-selection mechanisms. The sections about emergent group-level behavior are really
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
This sounds like of a 'just so' story, as evolution is not usually considered to act at the group level, but instead at the individual level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection And some evolutionar
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by IC4RUS 9y ago
I'm not sure there is much evidence that mania is in "the same dimension as depression, only opposite." And, in fact, mixed episodes can occur in those with bipolar disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by IC4RUS 9y ago
That's an impressive volume - was it all for the same technology column? And were they articles that required research?