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Chick Pride Worldwide
•�February 18, 2017
•�200 Words •�10 Comments
Cold Winters Theory applies to birds: Links to the relevant papers in Emil Kirkegaard's post. As Lazy Glossophiliac points out, yet another bullseye for folk stereotypes: "Fascinating that Corvidae would be the smartest birds because stereotypically it's ravens. Well, and owls." Someone should do a meta-study of IQ or r/K-selection differences across the animal kingdom... Read More
Bambi Eats Bird
•�September 23, 2013
•�100 Words •�3 Comments
One of the best possible arguments against vegetarianism in just 1:24 minutes. They like steak too. Most herbivores are herbivores because their teeth can't chew through fur and tough skin, not because they are humanitarians. (In the conventional meaning of the word). But put some little defenseless critter in front of them, and they'd be... Read More
Review of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond
•�December 3, 2009
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While trawling through my computer archives, I stumbled across this book review of Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" from five years ago. Overall, it's a great book, better than his follow-up "Collapse", which is also interesting - especially in the psychological aspects of "collapse", like creeping normalcy and "landscape amnesia" - but far from... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.