A while ago I wrote aboutthe way some people think and talk about intelligence as fixed, innate, knowable, and implying something about a person’s worth. A fairly recent academic essay I came across challenges at least the first two of those claims.
Bruno Sauce and Louis Matzel have a paper in the Psychological Bulletincalled ‘the Paradox of Intelligence’ which aims to reconcile two apparently competing themes within the intelligence literature. Read More...
Haemimont Games’ 2018 city-builder Surviving Marsinadvertently proves a thing or two about plans for colonising the Red Planet.
Firstly, there is nothing to do there, not specifically. You have your colonists grow food, which they eat at diners. Then they go to work in the mines, the metal from which other colonists, working in factories, turn into printed circuit boards, etc, etc…
I hope someone told them they can do those things on Earth before they got on those shuttles. Read More...
Reading about Japanese history, this passage caught my attention:
It is notable that in almost every case in which the shogun really counted he proved to have come to the top through irregular, “outside” channels through adoption and not through birth, youth, and adolescence in the Great Interior (Ōoku) of the Edo Castle. To a remarkable degree this was true in daimyo houses as well; innovative and strong individuals were usually adopted into the main line. Read More...
