debitage : The Utility of Polygamy

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2011-09-24 19:50:00

One reason to oppose polygamy is that spouses have a declining marginal utility, and it's best to set up a roughly egalitarian distribution. Your first spouse adds the most happiness to your life, but each additional spouse isn't ...

debitage

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2003-04-05 06:12:00

A few weeks ago I read an article (I don't recall where or who the author was) about the Sokal Hoax. Some years ago physicist Alan Sokal submitted an article to the postmodern journal Social Text arguing that gravity is a ...

debitage : Immigration as Trespassing

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2009-09-18 13:56:00

Slacktivist has an interesting post that I think springs from a false premise. His core argument is that nativists like Joe Wilson would be threatened if we started referring to undocumented immigrants as "trespassers," because ...

Paleontoriano: Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Engineered ...

Gonzalo Lieghton., paleontoriano.blogspot.com
2012-02-03 17:20:00

These flakes are on average thicker across their surface area than debitage flakes, and more uniformly thick. ... However, relative to size, the maximum thickness of Levallois flakes is actually less than debitage flakes.

debitage : 04/22/2007 - 04/29/2007

Stentor, brunchma.com
2007-04-22 07:00:00

But I do understand economics. And if believers in global warming are so certain that it is going to occur that they are willing to impose taxes and other coercion in order to combat it, why aren't they buying up all the land 300 ...

debitage : The environmental implications of border-drawing

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2010-01-24 20:41:00

The particular boundaries of our existing 50 states of the US are in some ways irrational historical relics, so there's an argument to be made for re-drawing the subdivisions of the country, as places like England and France ...

debitage : 02/10/2008 - 02/17/2008

Stentor, debitage.net
2008-02-10 08:00:00

Lately I've been doing a lot of reading about the idea of constructed preferences, and a recent poll of Floridians' views of evolution give me a good opportunity to say something about it in this blog. My starting point is a debate ...

debitage : 04/12/2009 - 04/19/2009

Stentor, debitage.net
2009-04-12 07:00:00

Julie writes an interesting meditation on the idea of some white Americans -- she uses her childhood home of Orange County, California, as a paradigm -- feeling like they lack culture. The OC she describes is sort of an ...

debitage : 01/27/2008 - 02/03/2008

Stentor, debitage.net
2008-01-27 08:00:00

The Last Acceptable Form Of Discrimination Is All Of Them. In response to the rightly-ridiculed news that some Mississippi legislator wants to ban restaurants from serving fat people, Rachel at The F-Word asks, "for all of you ...

debitage : Banning Meat

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2009-12-15 15:11:00

I disagree with Keith Burgess-Jackson's post about a possible ban on meat in three ways, even though both of us are advocates of plant-based diets. First, I disagree with his empirical prediction that we're likely to see a ban ...

debitage : This blog has moved

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2010-03-04 22:02:00

This blog has moved. This blog is now located at debitage .net/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to debitage .net/rss.xml ...

debitage : "Anymals"

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2009-12-24 16:51:00

"Anymals". I recently read an academic article by Lisa Kemmerer* in which she used the term "anymal" to refer to non-human animals. Google brought me to another article in which she gives an extended defense of the word.

debitage : The Right to Choose the Lesser Evil

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2010-02-03 22:53:00

I recently finished Kristin Shrader-Frechette's book Environmental Justice, which aims to apply the sort of liberal-egalitarian perspective dominant in political philosophy -- her particular version is referred to as the "Principle of ...

Debitage | A Thinking Reed

Lee, thinkingreed.wordpress.com
2008-10-30 01:17:52

Via Lynn, I discovered a previously unknown (to me) blog, Debitage , that has a lot of interesting posts on the environment, philosophy, politics, religion, and other topics. Of particular interest to me, there are several good posts ...

debitage : Michael Steele's two immigration policy rationales

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2009-10-19 17:32:00

Arguments against immigration generally take one of two forms: rule-of-law and ethnocentric. Rule-of-law arguments usually purport to oppose only illegal immigration -- i.e. the "just wait in line" theory -- though there is some ...

debitage : Michael Bay Is Not Postmodernist

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2011-07-11 14:59:00

Michael Trinklein attributes several glaring geographical errors in the latest Transformers movie to filmmaker Michael Bay's indoctrination into postmodernism at Crossroads School. I don't know anything about Crossroads, but ...

Why Levallois? A Morphometric Comparison of Experimental ...

Nicolas Guex et al., science.journalfeeds.com
2012-01-23 22:00:00

A Morphometric Comparison of Experimental 'Preferential' Levallois Flakes versus Debitage Flakes. by Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett. Background. Middle Palaeolithic stone artefacts referred to as 'Levallois' have caused ...

debitage : Why Not Polygamy?

Stentor, blog.debitage.net
2011-07-13 20:01:00

Why Not Polygamy? The worry that making marriage gender neutral would lead to demands to make marriage number-neutral is one that I've rarely seen a good response to. It's widely taken for granted among liberals that, ...

Stonehenge Thoughts: More geology on the way...

Brian john, brian-mountainman.blogspot.com
2012-01-15 12:34:00

In order to test this provenance whole-rock geochemical analysis has been undertaken on samples of debitage from the Stonehenge landscape and from the Pont Saeson area, including Craig Rhos-y-felin. These data are ...

Trip to the Source of the Green Stone (Blog by Lauren) | People of ...

Gabe, projectexploration.org
2011-12-08 11:33:37

When they got closer they realized the hill was actually a stone-tool-making site covered in debitage , ( Debitage is a technical word for the flakes that are chipped off in the process of creating stone tools.) Source of the "green ...