Month: December 2012

  • America’s culture of violence

    Although I believe in the individual’s right to own the means to defend himself, I want to say that I do not believe that the reason that there are so many violent shootings in the USA is that too few people own guns. Nor do I believe, that the main problem is that people do…

  • Learning to squat

    You probably don’t know how to squat. In fact, you are probably not capable of squatting for any period of time, even though it is one of the basic human positions, just like standing and lying. Why does it matter? Because, as I recently discovered, squatting is the optimal position for all sorts of things…

  • A comparison of two non-empirical hypotheses

    “Mais où est Dieu dans tout cela?” “[Sire,] je n’ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse.” – Pierre-Simon Laplace   If you ask a pre-modern, pre-scientific person why he believes in God, he would probably mention the need to explain some natural phenomena, living or geological, or perhaps offer some ontological justification. If you ask…

  • Why Paleo?

    We are animals not far removed from the jungle. Genetically, we are identical to primitive man. Our bodies have been shaped by our environment to make the best of the resources available to us. Our genotype (the DNA) only develops a healthy phenotype (our body and mind) in response to the environmental inputs it evolved…