There is. I can't think of the name off the top of my head, but there's actually an evolutionary psych professor who forms his ideas primarily around the idea of altruism, peace, and cooperation as important human evolutionary traits and also doesn't follow rote biological determinism. Evolutionary psychology and…

According to this guy, I should be through my Ph.D. program in no time with my 125 pound, dangerously-thin-for-5'11" body. And yet this is still not on par with the evolutionary psych presentations I've seen on rape as a legitimate means of reproduction and homosexuality as evidence of failure to attract a…

No kidding! An evolutionary psychologist gave a lecture when I was an undergrad saying that rape was evolutionarily justified as a means of reproduction and that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were selective mating adaptations to take advantage of female attractions to artistry and eccentricity. Also, as a grown…

It's perhaps more plausible than either sex->happiness or happiness->sex that there's a reflexive loop which could begin at either happiness or sex and create feedback. This is cross-sectional data so there's no real way to test causation. I'd be surprised if that wasn't in the original study, actually. If there's one…

I agree with that sentiment. I think the discourse of "rights and privileges" often calls things a "privilege" as a foreclosure on debate over rights, but there are instances where there are legitimate privileges. Perhaps the word is just overused?

There's already proof that this works from a chain of Philadelphia grocery stores. It's amazing that he's doing this. It turns out that community engagement and an acceptance of slightly lower profit rates can do wonders for food desert neighborhoods. I wish him all the success possible and hopefully he'll be able to…

Isn't a privilege just a right you don't want to share with other people? It's essentially saying I'm entitled to have something that you aren't, and taking it away from me is worse than giving it to you.

I was going to say, "I doubt those long stretches of time were as celibate as they would have you believe." Then I realized that, "I hope those long stretches of time weren't as celibate as they would have you believe," is more accurate.

Brilliant! I'd never made the connection until just now.

Personally, my favorite vampire stories are all congressional memoirs.

On the internet, saturation seems to be a more important thing than number of people who support your ideas. There's a lot of social psychology literature on hostile environments, stereotype threat, and microaggressions which makes a good case for why hate on the internet could be very effective despite not having…

It is very important that the original photographer didn't intend this as a sexist guide to skirt length; it is also important that it has been widely shared in social media as a sexist guide to skirt length. We should approach this conversation from multiple angles, as always, and note that the intended message can…

I'm totally with you on that. I was disappointed it wasn't included. It would be a much more powerful conversation to discuss the intentions and the uses of this photo rather than just call it sexist and be done.

It was posted with those intentions, for sure, but I've since seen it shared from multiple sites where it's been decontextualized and co-opted as a way of actually showing proper skirt lengths. One of the most unfortunate things about the internet is how people will warp a message to fit their cause, and this photo…

I, for one, welcome our new overlords. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu ftagn!

It was a really convenient shorthand for people before the printing press, when abbreviations occurred quite frequently because people had to hand copy entire books. Xmas was a way for Christian monks to write something that saved space, time, and was easily identifiable to anyone who could read at the time.

Isn't Ann Coulter part of the "Xmas is taking the Christ out of Christmas" crowd? Surely the irony won't be lost on everyone.

Maybe I'm missing some group of people who are all composed solely of jagged edges and right angles, but I've always thought "curvy" was poor descriptor when comparing human bodies, which are all curvy to some extent.

Oh, you're totally right. Whoops. I haven't seen a Springdale Cleaners in my neighborhood (Clifton), but maybe I haven't looked hard enough. I was under the impression this happened outside the city proper, though. Maybe I'm wrong?

I know this may be splitting hairs, but there's a major difference between Cincinnati and its suburbs. Springdale is a suburb of Cincinnati, and the suburbs are generally incredibly entitled, conservative bubbles where things like this don't make people bat an eye. The city itself is center-left to left and its…