Category: misc
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On Feminism
A quote from David Gelernter, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats) p. 145 “In Summer 2006, at an academic meeting, Harvard’s president Lawrence Summers wondered whether the far larger number of male than female scientists might not reflect some built-in property of most men versus most women. He didn’t…
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Three feet on the floor
A quote from David Gelernter, America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats) “Before the cultural revolution, there were no coed college dormitories with young men and women living in bedrooms on the same flour. Before the cultural revolution, visiting between men and women students on campus was regulated by ‘parietals,’…
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North, South, and Slavs
A quote from Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History) p. 190 “But there was a division even then between Europe north and Europe south. The south – Italy south of Lombardy, the parts of France that spoke Provencal, Spain, Portugal, and (to some extent)…
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Galen: Woman is a Mutilated Male
A quote from Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History) p. 21-22 “The female body, on the other hand, was very deficient. In her mother’s womb, the female had received insufficient heat, so she was softer, more liquid, underdone. Periodic menstruation proved that she as…
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Inventing the Flat Earth
Quotes from Nancy Marie Brown, The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages p. 129 ‘The error begins with the Italian poet Petrarch, who is known for two things: developing the sonnet, and coining the therm “the Dark Ages”. Sometimes called the first…
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Neuroscience Reverses Copernican Revolution
Quotes from Karl H Pribram, The Form Within: My Point of View p. 8 “A major thrust in our current changing view of humanity has been growing understanding of what our brain does and how it does it.” p. 8 “This revolution has many of the earmarks of the Copernican revolution of earlier times. That…
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This is no way to do science
A quote from Karl H Pribram, The Form Within: My Point of View p. 386 “As an example in the 1950s, Clark Hull, professor of psychology at Yale University, tried to build an efficient causal input-output, behaviorist theory that would encompass the works of Pavlov, Freud and Thorndike. Hull developed equations in which the terms…
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Parapsychology in the Cold War
Quotes from David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival p. 90 “The CIA, like other branches of the defense establishment, had begun to harbor fears of ‘psi gap’ vis-a-vis the Soviets, the consequences of of which could prove as devastating (according to some) as the missile gap and the…