Curt Doolittle

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  • PARETO’S TRUTH FROM EVIDENCE —“At the bottom of the Wealth curve, he wrote, Me

    PARETO’S TRUTH FROM EVIDENCE

    —“At the bottom of the Wealth curve, he wrote, Men and Women starve and children die young. In the broad middle of the curve all is turmoil and motion: people rising and falling, climbing by talent or luck and falling by alcoholism, tuberculosis and other kinds of unfitness. At the very top sit the elite of the elite, who control wealth and power for a time – until they are unseated through revolution or upheaval by a new aristocratic class. There is no progress in human history. Democracy is a fraud. Human nature is primitive, emotional, unyielding. The smarter, abler, stronger, and shrewder take the lion’s share. The weak starve, lest society become degenerate: One can, Pareto wrote, ‘compare the social body to the human body, which will promptly perish if prevented from eliminating toxins.’ Inflammatory stuff – and it burned Pareto’s reputation.”—

    Our job is VIA NEGATIVA: “To Eliminate Toxins”

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-07 09:18:00 UTC

  • RT @inpathos: @curtdoolittle ‘s Propertarianism is the most intriguing political

    RT @inpathos: @curtdoolittle ‘s Propertarianism is the most intriguing political prose since Moldbug, specially in its (very Nietzschean) s…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-06 14:24:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1202957025640144896

  • “Young men on marijuana and young women on birth control. Perfect production of

    —“Young men on marijuana and young women on birth control. Perfect production of a consumer base.”— Micah Pezdirtz

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-06 09:06:00 UTC

  • NEGATIVA IN INTELLIGENCE: GENETIC LOAD CAUSES STUPIDITY A somewhat popular post

    http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2012/07/genetics-of-stupidity.htmlVIA NEGATIVA IN INTELLIGENCE: GENETIC LOAD CAUSES STUPIDITY

    A somewhat popular post from ’12 that made the rounds. It follows my understanding that the size of the brain largely determines its capacity for intelligence and that the accumulation of defects causes stupidity, rather than, intelligence being a specific modification. This would mirror the data in that intelligence seems to be produced by many sequences. Or conversely, that many sequences can inhibit intelligence.

    http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2012/07/genetics-of-stupidity.html?Updated Dec 6, 2019, 8:33 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-06 08:33:00 UTC

  • Dec 5, 2019, 9:44 PM

    https://save-send-delete.blogspot.com/2014/06/im-glad-comanche-lost-and-other-things.html?fbclid=IwAR0l2kCNOBimkgkHtsEtvYVNA7ZFm1ndF3oeUYiXMkuBlZjszCBPCFJiu44Updated Dec 5, 2019, 9:44 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-05 21:44:00 UTC

  • IF THIS HOLDS UP, THAT’S THE END OF LONG TERM USE OF THE PILL – AND IT EXPLAINS

    IF THIS HOLDS UP, THAT’S THE END OF LONG TERM USE OF THE PILL – AND IT EXPLAINS … A LOT.

    Key brain region smaller in birth control pill users

    Neuroscience News

    Summary: A new neuroimaging study reveals women who take oral contraception have reduced hypothalamic volume compared to women who do not take the pill. Smaller hypothalamic volume was associated with increased negative emotions and depression risk.

    Source: RSNA

    Researchers studying the brain found that women taking oral contraceptives, commonly known as birth control pills, had significantly smaller hypothalamus volume, compared to women not taking the pill, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

    Located at the base of the brain above the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus produces hormones and helps regulate essential bodily functions including body temperature, mood, appetite, sex drive, sleep cycles and heart rate.

    Structural effects of sex hormones, including oral contraceptive pills, on the human hypothalamus have never been reported, according to the researchers. This may be in part because validated methods to quantitatively analyze MRI exams of the hypothalamus have not been available.

    “There is a lack of research on the effects of oral contraceptives on this small but essential part of the living human brain,” said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, professor of radiology at the Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and medical director of MRI Services at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. “We validated methods for assessing the volume of the hypothalamus and confirm, for the first time, that current oral contraceptive pill usage is associated with smaller hypothalamic volume.”

    Oral contraceptives are among the most popular forms of birth control and are also used to treat a host of conditions, including irregular menstruation, cramps, acne, endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. According to a 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, from 2015 to 2017 approximately 47 million women aged 15-49 in the U.S. reported current use of contraceptives. Of those, 12.6% used the pill.

    In his study, Dr. Lipton and colleagues recruited a group of 50 healthy women, including 21 women who were taking oral contraceptives. All 50 women underwent brain MRI, and a validated approach was used to measure hypothalamic volume.

    This shows the brain scans of the hypothalamus

    Brain MRI depicting hypothalamus in red. The image is credited to the study author and RSNA.

    “We found a dramatic difference in the size of the brain structures between women who were taking oral contraceptives and those who were not,” Dr. Lipton said. “This initial study shows a strong association and should motivate further investigation into the effects of oral contraceptives on brain structure and their potential impact on brain function.”

    Other findings from the study, which Dr. Lipton described as “preliminary,” were that smaller hypothalamic volume was also associated with greater anger and showed a strong correlation with depressive symptoms. However, the study found no significant correlation between hypothalamic volume and cognitive performance.

    Co-authors are Ke Xun Chen, M.D., Sandie Worley, B.S., Henry J. Foster, B.S., David Edasery, M.D., Shima Roknsharifi, M.D., and Chloe Ifrah, B.A.

    Funding: The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and by The Dana Foundation.Updated Dec 5, 2019, 8:59 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-05 20:59:00 UTC

  • RT @BlackAmerican33: @MartianHoplite @curtdoolittle Reciprocal; Those who are no

    RT @BlackAmerican33: @MartianHoplite @curtdoolittle Reciprocal; Those who are not able to behave in a Super Majority African American Regio…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-05 16:23:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1202624432801505282

  • “Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of th

    —“Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of the general populace and did not appear to be easily swung by the normal appeals to a leader’s desire for… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=522374538359441&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-05 16:18:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1202623173071638528

  • “Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of th

    —“Caesar writes that he had a problem with the Druids. They had the respect of the general populace and did not appear to be easily swung by the normal appeals to a leader’s desire for wealth or to consolidate power. This made them difficult to control.

    Caesar writes that in the end the only way to control them was to order that the Druids ‘groves’ be cut down. The normal understanding of this translation from Latin into ‘groves’ is a collection of trees but this may not be right.

    Perhaps those ‘groves’ were in fact stone circles.

    In order to remove the Druids as an alternative power base that was frustrating Caesar’s attempts to control the British Isles he had to remove their totems of power and rob the Druids of their equipment or arenas to rob them of their respected position in society.”—

    Groves were groves. The circles were evolved from home (hearth) burials. Stone circles (i think) from extending home (hearth) burials.

    —“megalithic constructions began as early as 5000 BCE in northwestern France[3], and that the custom and techniques spread via sea routes throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region from there.[4][5] The Carnac Stones in France are estimated to have been built around 4500 BCE[6] and many of the formations include megalithic stone circles. The earliest stone circles in England were erected 2500-3000 BCE[7] during the Middle Neolithic (c. 3700–2500 BCE). Around that time stone circles began to appear in coastal and lowland areas towards the north of the United Kingdom. The Langdale axe industry in the Lake District appears to have been an important early centre for circle building, perhaps because of its economic power.[citation needed] Many had closely set stones, perhaps similar to the earth banks of henges, others were made from unfounded boulders rather than standing stones. Recent research shows that two oldest stone circles in Britain (Stenness and Callanish) were constructed to align with solar and lunar positions.[8][9]

    Some sites do not contain evidence of human dwelling.[citation needed] This suggests that stone circles were constructed for ceremonies. The variety of the stones excludes the possibility that they had astronomical observation purposes of any precision.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-05 11:17:00 UTC

  • RT @zbingledack: @curtdoolittle @nosilverv We do recognize by utility, and langu

    RT @zbingledack: @curtdoolittle @nosilverv We do recognize by utility, and language shows the lines along which a society has divided up th…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-12-04 17:15:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1202275227398496263