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Sorry if I came across as smarmy.

Related: the relationship between marijuana use and the development of schizophrenia has long been known, although these reviewers conclude it is those who are predisposed towards schizophrenia who use marijuana as adolescents. ______________________...

Marijuana isn't a teratogen to humans: It isn't even a teratogen to our closest cousins. (Well all right they didn't try it on sheep, but chimpanzees are the next best thing:) Um... so Angela, I was wondering... When historians look back over the 21st century to explain why Western...

Post hoc ergo proptor hoc. The kind of person turned on to marijuana is less socialized to behavioral norms and values, less disciplined, less purposeful, and less industrious. Knowing many adolescent potheads I find it very hard to imagine that these people are not heavily prone to depression...

I'm not surprised that they have such an ancient origin - arthropods are considerably older than mammals. Bats might have been reasonable hosts, with their large, communal sleeping arrangements, but there have been many warm-blooded animals throughout evolutionary history which shared the same den.

Do you have other stories to tell about this? What you describe feels like the psychology I grew up with. In fact, I psychology today is finally beginning to come into its own, in a way far surpassing the findings in the 70's. Part of this is the way many fields will gradually find their way...

Here's a question: What was there to do at the symposion besides drink and ogle the dancers? (Please don't answer "have philosophical conversation" because we're already drunk.) Egyptians had senet. Romans had ludus latrunculorum. Persians had shatranj. Vikings had hnefatafl. What did the...

I don't know that intuitive leaps would be expected of someone who isn't intuitive; INFP would have made more sense. The MBTI isn't useless, but I do wish more people knew about the HEXACO. Psychology is, in many ways, a struggling science. The few things it has rigorously discovered often...

I loved the MBTI growing up, but it's badly outdated, and there's really no justification for using it anymore. But I am very high in Openness to Experience, and very low in Emotionality as measured by HEXACO inventories. (This is something like an extreme version of the MBTI NT - I'm neither...

What kind of mind-altering substances have Europeans been using early on in history and prehistory? For example: Cannabis is indigenous to India and central Asia; when did it make its way to Europe? The hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe semilanceata is native to many areas of Europe. Is...

In a sense, there are no poor people anymore. Even the wealthiest medieval king couldn't have dreamed of living in a house filled with glass, with boxes that played moving and speaking pictures, invisible hearths providing warmth and cool air on demand, surrounded by more books than he could...

That's OK. It still looks like you understand them both.

Oh! Have you read Carroll Quigley? Have you read Stark & Bainbridge's Future of Religion?

They may still be generating nothing. So long as the return on investments outpaces inflation by even a small margin, a person possessing hundreds of millions of dollars can have 50% or even 80% of their income taxed away and still live quite comfortably. Even if I were not particularly smart...

That's an excellent resource; thank you for linking it! (...Why do people downvote your posts when you make such self-evidently useful contributions?) It must have been interesting when Christianity was the new religion of foreign monks and scattered converts. Today we experience Christianity...

Love is motivating, but the fact that it motivates does not imply that it provides meaning. I would say that, if I had to chose a subjective feeling as a source of meaning (rather than philosophical arguments regarding objective facts), then awe and cosmic awareness would seem much more natural...

That may well be part of the story, but growth hormones are a modern development. Dutch heights were increasing long before the 1970's. -Vandemonian, earlier in this thread

Really? Good for you! I do have to admit that Inglehart's findings are more solid - Hofstede played it fast and loose with the data in order to fit a preconceived theory, which is why (for instance) power distance and individualism correlate negatively with one another even when controlling for...

That may well be part of the story, but growth hormones are a modern development. Dutch heights were increasing long before the 1970's.

Ygorcs, I've read the post you mentioned on Quora, finished the 1913 article "The Natives of Kharga Oasis," along with a few articles I found elsewhere, and I'd like to form a careful response to this post of yours. Although it's clear that you're remarkably well educated on the subject, I do...