While the first real post for this blog is still in process, I have compiled a partial list of the topics I envision writing about in the coming months. If any of this interests you, please stay tuned.
- The relative propensity of various religions for violence.
- What the Nativity would look like if it happened in 2008.
- Appropriate rules of electronic etiquette (including email, cell phones, and instant texting)
- The development of biological engines
- The true market value of jewelry-class diamonds and how they became a cultural fixture
- Why women wear engagement rings and men don’t - shifting/static gender roles during courtship
- Evolution of Continental and American place settings and utensil usage
- Ethnic breakdown and analysis of America’s Next Top Model Contestants
- Critique of Project Runway’s fundamental premise
- Rules of the city, or the unspoken urban mores that allow people to live in close proximity
- The Coming Catastrophe – bioengineering, oil shock, global warming – what’s going to change the way we live the most and the soonest?
- Animals in zoos: Morality and social commentary
- The nature of irrationality – under what conditions can we fairly say that someone is acting irrationally?
- The fairness of death penalty-certified juries
- The symmetry of attraction – comparison of key indicators of attraction and arousal betwixt straight males and females
- Mortality rates – differences between published rates and life on the street, and what that tells us about descriptive statistics and the ways they are used
- Altered states of consciousness – particularly hypnosis and lucid dreaming
- What does it take to get on a reality TV show? Alternatively titled: “How do you prove you’re an emotionally stunted extrovert in a two-minute audition video?”
- Coping mechanisms in extreme situations – how do people learn to survive emotionally in environments defined by violence, death, and extreme deprivation?
- The argument against physical determinism – why it is/isn’t just kinetic interactions
- The death of poetry and what has taken its place
- Why the rich rule the world and nothing ever changes
- Memory alteration and its implications for free will, social design, etc.
- What happened to China’s communist fire?
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