n "The Better Angels of Our Nature," Pinker presents data showing that human violence, while still very much with us today, has been gradually declining. Moreover, he says, "over the long sweep of history, women have been and will be a pacifying force. Traditional war is a man's game: Tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages." As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring and ensure that their genes survive into the next generation.
Skeptics immediately reply that women have not made war simply because they have rarely been in power. If they were empowered as leaders, the conditions of an anarchic world would force them to make the same bellicose decisions that men do. Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi were powerful women; all of them led their countries to war.
But it is also true that these women rose to leadership by playing according to the political rules of "a man's world." It was their success in conforming to male values that enabled their rise to leadership in the first place. In a world in which women held a proportionate share (one-half) of leadership positions, they might behave differently in power.
So we are left with the broader question: Does gender really matter in leadership? In terms of stereotypes, various psychological studies show that men gravitate to the hard power of command, while women are collaborative and intuitively understand the soft power of attraction and persuasion. Americans tend to describe leadership with tough male stereotypes, but recent leadership studies show increased success for what was once considered a "feminine style."
Why don't universities filter applicants based on IQ? It would make life so much easier for retards who struggle & eventually dropout, faculty and then students who have the means to succeed
Scientifically speaking, is there any way to fully recover from sleeping 5 to 6 hours a night for over 2 years? When I became a wagie after being NEET / part-time worker until 25, I got a factory job (was told it was a "lab testing" job kek) and was told it was 7 to 4. I knew that I would hate waking up that early and I wouldn't do it but I took the job cause I was desperate. Of course being the piece of shit I was so just started sleeping less going to bed at 11 instead of midnight and waking up at 5:30 then later 6 when the job moved. I fell asleep standing up several times til I got yelled at and started drinking coffee after about 3 months. One cup, free in the break room, every day on my first break. After 6 months I was hiking in the woods and realized I felt completely dissociated from reality. Like I wasn't there. A month later the sleepiness finally disappeared entirely. Just felt more and more numb..sometimes I would lucid dream. I had a few dreams about working in a different place for a single day when my job moved between places, even though that never happened. Also would have dreams of sitting at my computer and suddenly the power goes out and weird numbers start flashing on screens and alarm clocks go off. Or I'm in a forest in a tunnel of trees, every dark, and there's this howling wind and screaming and I woke up with myclonic jerk. This went away over a year ago. Now I just feel numb..if I quit my job and stop drinking coffee and fix my sleep schedule will I ever recover? I used to write music but my creative spark is gone. I've missed over 1500 hours of sleep..I also have tinnitus from exposure to 70dB hissing air for over 4000 hours.
I'm 32. I used to want to go into electrical engineering, but I no longer see the point. I teach elementary school (I don't teach gay shit) in a city where elementary teachers are overpaid. This career is not intellectually stimulating, but it affords me a decent amount of leisire time to program, manufacture PCBs, build stuff, etc. It doesn't really seem like many of the engineers here are particularly thrilled with their life choices either though. Is this just sour grapes? I think it's too late for me. On the other hand, I may well have dodged a bullet.
Can a formal education really compete with maturity and commitment?
Has your school finally sucked all the passion you once had for your subject out of you? Are you doing it for money now?
Where do I find an in-depth explanation of how evolution really works? Specifically I'm curious about things like how much generations are needed for a trait to become stable, what are the probabilities involved and how are quantified, how bad characteristics that don't compromise reproduction are filtered out and how good ones are not lost, how the environment influences genetics. It cannot be just about randomness and natural selection to genetically explain evolution otherwise it would, intuitively, take too much generations for the selection factors to be stable in the meanwhile. I'm curious about how is explained and justified that changes happen relatively quickly.
>To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.
Why is half the US and A hooked on anti-depressants? Yeah, USA is a shithole, we know. Try living here.
Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is literally a symptom of physical addiction, yet nobody tells anyone that these drugs are addicting.
Doctors gave me intravenous morphine in the hospital, and cut my dosage down from 0.4mg to 0.2mg and 0mg, alternating, to prevent physical addiction.
For 0mg, the alternative medication was an intravenous NSAID.
How come antidepressants are not dosed as such?
>inb4 money
Yeah, it'd be a lot better to give a person two prescriptions, and make them take twice as many pills, dickhead.
