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The people of Madagascar still look "black" to me, whatever their true ancestry is. Anyway, your map does not reflect the higher IQ of Sierra Leone for some reason.

Well, archaea are closer to eukarya than bacteria. I don't know the answer though.

Assuming Bering Strait is not a puppet, I'll point out that Madagascar and the few nearby islands do not fit the pattern despite being right off the east coast and being populated with what look like Africans.

edited a lot The above has the cure being "for" the ailed rather than the ailment, which might be grammatically okay, but you could misconstrue "for" like "to" or "in": the best cure in Christianity, to Christians.

I just stumbled upon information relevant to autism and psychosis. Firstly, schizophrenia has earlier onset in men, and it starts to look like autism apart from having a much later onset. Secondly and more interestingly, both autism and schizophrenia are comorbid with OCD, and severe OCD with poor insight mimics the loss of contact with reality in psychosis as they begin to view their compulsions as rational and reasonable. Despite this, however, the following study found that "ultra high risk (UHR)" individuals, considered to have "transitioned" upon their first psychotic episode, may be less likely to transition if they meet criteria for an OCD diagnosis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670932/ other sources used: http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-connection-between-ocd-psychosis/

A detained, living prisoner could be a workhorse. Not only would this reduce costs, but it's true justice if the profits go toward fighting his own crime. Furthermore, it might be only one more thing to dread, or a source of meaning, depending on his personality type and by proxy his guilt or innocence.

My textbook said that Moses made the Hebrews monotheistic, preceded by veneration of the Mesopotamian pantheon.

I've wondered whether the angels make Christianity polytheistic in all but name.

If we ship his "unique case" to another country with no return and pretend we killed him, will he still learn?

This is too clear cut. Autistic traits are normally distributed in the population, hence the "It's a spectrum". Those diagnosed can have extremely high inflammation compared to other psychiatric disorders, which probably contributes to depression, and I imagine the influence of poor diet on inflammation could make it a confounding variable. Furthermore, omega-3 fatty acids can improve autism (and schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, ADHD, and borderline). This doesn't mean they'll be 100% non-autistic after a dietary intervention. Autism is comorbid with depression, but bipolar disorder is a psychotic illness that worsens with age. The relationship of autism to psychosis is contentious AFAIK. The link should go to Dr Badcock's blog post about the "extreme female brain" study. He contends that the apparent comorbidity of autism with psychosis in the study, at least among the boys, could be due to misdiagnoses. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201506/testing-the-extreme-female-brain-theory-psychosis

This is getting trivial and irrelevant. The death penalty is not punishment in the operant conditioning sense.

They may accept their punishment as just at a later time.

Whether it exceeds the diagnostic threshold or not, some degree of psychological disorder underpins nearly any crime, namely antisocial personality, for which there currently is no cure and currently the best treatment is punishment. edited to add supporting evidence https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/head-games/201305/is-there-criminal-mind-what-does-it-look http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2856971/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12539904

Per Raider we should kill everybody suspected of stealing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy "During high school he was arrested at least twice on suspicion of burglary and auto theft. When he reached age 18 the details of the incidents were expunged from his record, as is customary in Washington and most other states.[34]"

The study below summaries the findings regarding the prevention of schiophrenia or psychosis in prodromal subjects. I provide quotes of what I found most relevant. It looks as though omega-3 fatty acid treatment was more effective at delaying transition to psychosis in prodromal individuals, but IMO it's likely partially or wholly due to better patient adherence to a side-effect free regime. Furthermore, it treats a wider range of disorders and with fewer side effects, which might make it preferable when the diagnosis is uncertain. Early signs, diagnosis, and therapeutics of the prodromal phase of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders (Larson, Walker, Compton, 2011) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2930984/ The following experiments were conducted on prodromal patients, the prodrome being described earlier in the paper. In one texperiment using risperidone: In a later, better designed experiment using olanzapine: Here is other published research that I haven't read yet. Treatment implications of the schizophrenia prodrome (2011) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136161/ Omega-3 fatty acids and schizophrenia: evidences and recommendations. (2013) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24424237 Prediction and prevention of the first psychotic episode: new directions and opportunities (2014) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974689/

Do the hurt victims always prefer death to a life sentence? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/03/he-mutilated-my-child-says-father-who-attacked-grinning-serial-killer-in-court/ Maybe it's a natural instinct, wanting the bad person dead and gone permanently, rather than a sense of just punishment.

Ironically, you'll probably fear it more if you're actually innocent. edit Then again, I'm an atheist.

Let us not forget that most blacks in the US descend from slaves who were forced to be illiterate by law. It is silly to take one slice out of that timeline and think, "Maybe they're just slightly different biologically."

The common approach seems to be shooting down natural explanations until it is taken for granted that no natural explanation will suffice. This appears to be a shortcut around the apparent problem that without an outlined natural mechanism, theism seems to explain anything and predicts nothing. Gods are not conceived as natural forces but as minds. However we seem to use mentalistic reasoning, wherein mental states have cause and effect power, to predict the bodily behavior of other people via what a psychiatrist calls "theory of mind". Given that gods are minds, mentalistic reasoning is probably necessary for theism to yield predictions. Some people claim their gods communicate through ordinary experiences. The god, with special insight into the recipient's life, could communicate with a language only the recipient would understand, but I don't see why it should communicate in this manner exclusively. The simulation hypothesis comes to mind, which some argue predicts that our universe will evidence computational constraints if scientists can look closely enough. Alas the simulation hypothesis only makes these predictions by going beyond the traditional mind-only creator.

The mods make it look meaner than it was. I suppose you could just reverse score a measure of water to measure antiwater. If we're only talking volume, then zero in your measure indicates the tube is empty whereas zero in mine indicates it's full. Moles would be trickier since I'm not sure there's a ceiling density.

Insulting remark removedI could also fill the tube with water, and the drops would be no more. Both the drops and the antidrops are patterns superimposed on a set of variables. Perhaps these variables are the coordinates of the particles, or the distances between particles, or a P(empty/full) variable that pertains to each unit of space - I don't know - but it's not obvious why any variable value should be the one that exists except as an arbitrary determination, nor is it an obviously important determination when the superimposed patterns are far more interesting than the individual values.

If the hole doesn't exist apart from the surrounding material, then it is a property of the hole that it is surrounded by material. Can a bowl exist if not surrounded by (relatively) empty space? Similar dilemmas arise elsewhere. A law or principle is as much what it permits as what it restricts. A permission may be imposed on a background of restrictions, or vice versa. Your variables must have at least two possible values for you to superimpose anything on them. It's not obvious why any value should be considered the value that exists.

You seem to think that what's real is only the substrate, for example the fundamental particles. Wouldn't you acknowledge that by saying there is a hole, I am describing something real that has a hole? I am arguing that that empirically that real thing is nothing apart from its hole, or its color, or its size. It's real because it has those properties, and without those properties it would not be real because it would not be itself.

Why should I support a hypocritical country? You would want muslims to turn in their violent Islamist leaders, but you aren't willing to do the same yourself. I have to wonder what you would do in the Milgram experiment. These same books full of genocide and bigotry are also full of absurd commands that nobody follows today. Furthermore, Christians should follow Jesus first and foremost, but they do not. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi "I know of no one who has done more for humanity than Jesus. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Christianity … The trouble is with you Christians. You do not begin to live up to your own teachings. " - Gandhi

I'm sorry. It was somewhat tangential. I did recently wonder whether turning in George W Bush for his war crimes would alleviate some of the tension. It makes us look like hypocrites.