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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 2671 Views: 637026 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:58 pm Subject: Coincidences |
This is the Cabinet of Curiosities. It's the one area where you can post up something odd and fascinating without commentary. It's a place to come to get inspired to think new thoughts.
I recently ... |
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Topic: Homeopathy | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 42 Views: 59353 |
Forum: Health Posted: 10:10 am Subject: Homeopathy |
Unobserved reality must exceed observed reality, (whether of the scientific, or individual subjective, variety.)
Surely then homeopathic cures must already be taking place, and have been doing so l ... |
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Topic: This Really Makes me Sick! | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 99 Views: 119265 |
Forum: Health Posted: 3:13 pm Subject: This Really Makes me Sick! |
I don't think diseases are actually "invented", but I do think that conditions are matched to new medicines, after which these conditions are given a nice new name (for instance ADHD),
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Topic: This Really Makes me Sick! | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 99 Views: 119265 |
Forum: Health Posted: 3:00 pm Subject: This Really Makes me Sick! |
The answer lies in sunshine.
Or mental exercise, (aka 'cognitive stimulation'), to stimulate the hippocampus and prevent it deteriorating. See: http://brainworldmagazine.com/dr-majid-fotuhis-hi ... |
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Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare. | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 38 Views: 27597 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:16 pm Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare. |
When attention is drawn to the advantages of (early) modern humans compared to Neanderthals it is often described as a competitive advantage. But why?
When you consider the very low population dens ... |
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Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare. | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 38 Views: 27597 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:56 pm Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare. |
Isn't ambush hunting more efficient?
It is, when the landscape provides cover for ambushes. e.g. well forested areas. But if the forests are cleared and become grasslands, there aren't many places ... |
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Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare. | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 38 Views: 27597 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:13 pm Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare. |
Isn't ambush hunting more efficient? | |
Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare. | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 38 Views: 27597 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:47 pm Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare. |
You may well be correct in doubting the efficacy of vaccination programmes.
I originally raised the issue of the effect of incoming diseases to indigenous populations because of an interest in what ... |
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Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare. | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 38 Views: 27597 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:13 pm Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare. |
The usual metaphysics from Ishmael:
I do not believe in race-killing epidemics. ... His reference to his father may be evidence for a Lamarkian view of inherited bigotry of course. Modern va ... |
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Topic: Questions Of The Day | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 4524 Views: 775248 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 1:45 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day |
Lefties of the 1820's were Free Market Fanaticks
The Communist Manifesto contains a paeon of praise to the innovative and revolutionary powers of the bourgeoisie. Only ideologues feel the need t ... |
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Topic: Going Walkabout | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 644 Views: 261551 |
Forum: British History Posted: 11:37 am Subject: Going Walkabout |
Incidentally I wouldn't get too carried away by the 'blooms/arrives early' aspect: The point is not that it is 'early', any more than other blossoms are 'late', but that it blooms first, when travelli ... | |
Topic: Questions Of The Day | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 4524 Views: 775248 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:46 am Subject: Questions Of The Day |
So, as a good liberal, you'd put the welcome mat out would you
I am interested in the concept of belonging, and have already posted comments on this, that's all. I suspect it is a Venn diagram ... |
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Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 1575 Views: 314252 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:41 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier |
you and your gang of thugs
Where did this come from? Did you have a particularly nasty experience as a child on a bus? |
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Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 1575 Views: 314252 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:39 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier |
As compared to what?
Instability. It is a piece of conventional wisdom among 'small statists' that private investment by profit seeking private firms produces the best results. Yet in unregulat ... |
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Topic: Questions Of The Day | |
GrouchoMarxthespot Replies: 4524 Views: 775248 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:26 am Subject: Questions Of The Day |
This is the twisted self-serving image your tribe has of itself, reinforced by its constant repetition by every avowed member. But your boorish claims to "scepticism, and logic and a commitment t ... | |
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