It's easy to make fun of our ancestor's limitations, but more interesting to examine our own. As example...
The simplest logic reveals that the marriage between violent men and an accelerating knowledge explosion is unsustainable. Our descendants will marvel at how little interest we showed in this equation. Assuming that we have descendants of course.
A couple of things struck me as funny in this -- the author's easy dismissal of silly old phrenology or his rejection of a simplistic correlation of brain weight to intelligence even while he plunges headlong into a "scientific" explanation of female simple-mindedness. (The debunked stereotype about Napoleon's height and character is a less-sexist bonus.)
And judging from the scanned images of this magazine article, the New York Times appear to have decided that print publication fonts and layouts were perfected in the 1920s and that little further work was needed.
Hard to find much (any) scientific method in this « scientific answer »!
Well I agree with one point - No, in 2023, in certain circles, you can't question 'science'. Remember, it's settled.
It's easy to make fun of our ancestor's limitations, but more interesting to examine our own. As example...
The simplest logic reveals that the marriage between violent men and an accelerating knowledge explosion is unsustainable. Our descendants will marvel at how little interest we showed in this equation. Assuming that we have descendants of course.
Proof that "scientists" still have their prejudices!
A couple of things struck me as funny in this -- the author's easy dismissal of silly old phrenology or his rejection of a simplistic correlation of brain weight to intelligence even while he plunges headlong into a "scientific" explanation of female simple-mindedness. (The debunked stereotype about Napoleon's height and character is a less-sexist bonus.)
And judging from the scanned images of this magazine article, the New York Times appear to have decided that print publication fonts and layouts were perfected in the 1920s and that little further work was needed.