Transparent Eye

The NY Times has an article, Brain Power – In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable, that discusses research on the use of intuition on threat detection, and references Antonio Damasio’s work.

Cool article in Harvard Magazine about using DNA studies of Y chomosomes of modern British men to elucidate what happened during the Ango-Saxon invasion of England after the fall of Rome. The Romano-British male population left few descendents in English areas, so the invaders didn’t just rule as an elite, they displaced the original population. It must have been a devastating time to be alive.

Good news! You can go to the restroom while they play God Bless America. A fan was ejected from Yankee Stadium for insufficient reverence, and sued and won. I’m not normally in favor of litigation, but in this case I am. God Bless America is an inferior song, saccharine through and through. It combines religion and nationalism in a way that is, if not quite ugly, does tend to give them impression that God is specifically on our side. It’s not the national anthem, but was added to the playlist in many places after 9/11. It’s time to strike it out.

The GOP class of 1994, which came in to revolutionize Washington and be more moral than thou, falls to Earth.