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Took my 10 year old outside and watched the sun rise. We focused on how light and color interact and tried to describe it. He said, "The green comes back as the sun wakes up and smiles.". He was still working in his journal last night before bed.

I'm so glad to see you back. You were my first favorite SG, and are reclaiming the crown easily.

Hm. You may insist you're boring these days, but, if nothing else, you still appear to me as one of the prettiest girls in all creation.

I second Candaxis 's question. I loved using coconut oil after the shower but it was giving me deep, painful blemishes. I use it before I wash my face now.

I love your routine. It sounds so serene. I always tell myself I will get up earlier so I am not so rushed but it never happens. Have you always been an early riser?

820 AM

ROCK ON WITHCHER BADSELF!

I once read a book in which evolutionary psychology was described as being something akin to "Just So Stories" (remember Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories"?).

The book was called "Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature" by Steven Rose, Leon Kamin and Richard Lewontin.

Rose (a Biochemist and Professor of Neurobiology), Kamin (a Psychologist) and Lewontin (an Evolutionary Biologist) argue against biologically reductivist explanations of human behavioural / psychological traits. They also spend a brief part of the book arguing against culturally reductivist explanations. For them, any form of reductivism whether biological or cultural is misguided.

They specifically attack the Sociobiology of EO Wilson and the biological reductivism of Richard Dawkins.

The book also spends a bit of time attacking the notion that IQ is hereditary and criticising Cyril Burt (arguing that Burt's classic research on IQ heritability in twins was based on data that he had made up) and a couple of his followers Arthur Jensen and Hans Eysenck (both of whom have claimed that there are genetically determined IQ differences between black and white people). Kamin was among the first to demonstrate that Burt had faked his IQ research data.

It has been a fair few years since I read this book (I first read it back in the early 1990s when I was at university studying for a joint honours degree in Biochemistry and Philosophy) so my memory of the book may not be 100% accurate.

Personally, I don't find it credible that a full explanation of human behavioural / psychological traits can be put together without including the role of both genetic and environmental factors. Even if Rose, Kamin and Lewontin aren't completely correct they make a very important point. Claims by scientists to have found biological explanations for human behavioural / psychological traits are often treated as firm fact by the media and are not subject to sufficent scrutiny, when the actual research data may only support conclusions of a more equivocal nature.

Don't believe it for a second. ...It's a conspiracy to shake your confidence.

So glad to see you on here again!

welcome back lil dude

So what would this diet consist of. I am a firm believer we should eat by how are teeth formed which coincides with your evolutionary diet.

And Balaam said unto Balalaika, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to cure mine maladies, and, behold, thou hast brought (them) altogether.
Frous in Numbers 11:23

Still miss you.

Who am I supposed to e-stalk without you?

indeed, chica. indeed.




see you out on the dance floor.

karma can be good, karma can be bad...its best when its good!

Ever read a book called "Stolen Continents" by Ronald Wright?

Probably won't tell you much you don't already know about the Mayans and their Meso-american pals down south but may learn you up a think-notch or two about the Iroquois and Cherokee.