Archive for December 2009

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The Mystery of Boskop

December 31, 2009

 
Discovery reports on a species of Homo that lived 10,000 years ago and may have had an average IQ of 150.  
In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch. The location was Boskop, a small town about 200 miles inland from the [...]

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Population Studies Without HBD

December 30, 2009

 
The cover story of this month’s Foreign Affairs is “The New Population Bomb” by Jack Goldstone.  There are four “population bombs” that the author sees which will change the world.  First is the decline of the European nations.  Second is the aging of industrialized populations.
Part of the reason developed countries will be less economically dynamic [...]

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Article on Chinese/Russian Border

December 30, 2009

 
Slate has an article up about two cities on the Chinese/Russian border.  Basically, the Chinese are trying to establish good relations while the Russians are angry and suspicious.
BLAGOVESHCHENSK, Russia—Across the Amur River, which forms the border between Russia and China, the city of Heihe gleams. The brand-new Yuan Dun shopping center juts into the water, [...]

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Let the Market Decide

December 29, 2009

 
On TV right now there’s nonstop discussion about how much we should balance liberty against security when deciding who gets on planes. Putting aside the fact that the threat of terrorism is nothing compared to the amount of people victimized by NAM crime, the best solution to this problem is to let the market [...]

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British Painting Prodigy

December 29, 2009

 
From The Guardian.
Kieron Williamson kneels on the wooden bench in his small kitchen, takes a pastel from the box by his side and rubs it on to a piece of paper.
“Have you got a picture in your head of what you’re going to do?” asks his mother, Michelle.
“Yep,” Kieron nods. “A snow scene.”
Because it is [...]

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We’re Just a Few More “Resources” Away

December 28, 2009

 
This is modern liberalism
Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.
The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, [...]

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First, They Came for HBD Books…

December 26, 2009

This was the message I got last week when I tried to get to my website from a hospital bed.
Content Blocked
The requested URL http://hbdbooks.com/ has been blocked because it belongs to one or more of the following categories:
Political Extreme / Hate / Discrimination
This site is restricted based on your company’s corporate resource usage policy. Please [...]