5474a
1yr ago
Pollock's paintings have a considered colour palette, rhythm, harmony, scale, and originality/novelty, all elements that factor into the aesthetic and historical assessment of art. It's not the greatest art mankind ever made but it represents a new development for its time. On those bases it's arguably better than Basquiat, who retrod a path laid down decades earlier by abstract expressionists like Pollock without notably refining or extending it.
5474a
1yr ago
The researchers from the London School of Economics, Dr Neil Cummins and Professor Gregory Clark, said the name checks showed that social mobility in England is hardly greater than in medieval times, and that people inherited their social status even more than they inherit their height.
Dr Cummins said: ‘Just take the names of the Normans who conquered England nearly 1,000 years ago. Surnames such as Baskerville, Darcy, Mandeville and Montgomery are still over-represented at Oxbridge and also among elite occupations such as medicine, law and politics.
‘What is surprising is that between 1800 and 2011 there have been substantial institutional changes in England but no gain in rates of social mobility for society as a whole.’
Excuse the Daily Mail link, at least the quotes are from the source.
Of course going down the indigenous rabbit hole in a European country leads you to places where indigenous either doesn't mean anything (mythology) or doesn't mean anything useful to modern society (Neanderthals, out of Africa).
5474a
1yr ago
SponsorBlock is an extra Firefox addon I found recently that automatically skips over the "first a quick message about our sponsor" sections in Youtube videos.
Agreed. It seems pretty obvious that it's nature plus nurture. We only have direct input into the nurture side so that's where our effort is concentrated. Altering the nature side is possible but it's not a practice anyone wants systemised. Top bracket IQ score? Well done, take your pick of breeding partner from MENSA's singles beauty pageant, lol. Sorry, your high school sweetheart is assigned to the Capped Human Achievement Division. Ouch.
Edit: Also the most vigorous offspring being the result of outbreeding between dissimilar parents presents a conundrum for race-centric HBD'ers. Do they value human diversity, or human quality? My impression is they're uniformly against race mixing while using quality as the justification for that position.
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