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9 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Goiter is caused by iodine defiency, traditionally most common in mountainous regions like the Alps. "In the village of Rude, near Zagreb, goiter was detected in 85% of children...The girls from this village were not considered pretty if they had »no neck«." The village angel: Image
In many mountainous places goiter is apparently common enough to be considered beautiful in girls. North Italian painters like the Venetian Andrea Mantegna had a habit of painting the Virgin with one: Image
From Hans Holbein: Image
The fact that so many beautiful women were painted with these things seemed to suggest that the villagers of Rude may may not have been the only ones to consider them sexy: sci-hub.se/https://www.li… Image

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9 May
Manuel Eisner is an historian of homicide who had the idea to use rates of regicide to infer homicide rates among less important people before records became available ~`1200. The worst time to be a European king was the 7th century: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo… Image
King killing became cool again in the 11th century state building era when royal deaths in battle reached their peak as Harald Godwinson was shot in the eye/Harald Hardrada was killed at Stamford Bridge/his older brother King Olaf II died at Stiklestad. Image
The 11st century numbers are somewhat inflated by the Caliphate of Corboda who imported a very high East Mediterranean rate of king killing into Europe Image
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5 Apr
During tests of working memory the pupil dilates while storing information and slowly constricts back to normal as answers are delivered. Interestingly, it turns out that more intelligent people tend to have larger pupils even before the tests start: sci-hub.se/https://www.sc… Image
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On a similar note, blink rate is also associated with mental effort and IQ, with more intelligent people displaying a reduced need to blink even at baseline. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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21 Mar
This old post details the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on reducing aggression and improving skin quality. There's something I left out though: I think you can spot people with high omega-3 levels using cues from their personality, voice, and skin
The highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids are found in fish consuming populations like the Japanese and Norwegians. In these people you see a distinctive combination of ultra-low homicide rates and skin which seems to magically reflect light: Scandinavians don't much sunburn.
The Japanese must have the best looking skin the world, but I think this is a bit concealed by their darker coloring. Every now and again you’ll see a half white Japanese person with skin so reflective and amazing it interferes with the photo
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6 Mar
The founder of The Nation of Islam, Wallace Fard Muhammed, claimed himself to be half black and half white, born in Mecca. His followers claimed he was God Incarnate; most others see him as a white imposter. In truth, he was Pashtun by way of New Zealand.
The FBI investigated Fard in the 1950’s, 20 years after he mysteriously disappeared. They combed through files of criminals with similar names until they found a “Wallie Dodd Ford”, a small time opium dealer imprisoned at San Quentin in the 20’s. The fingerprints matched.
Further detective work by historians discovered this Fard's 1917 draft card in which his birthplace was given as Shinka, Afghanistan.
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19 Feb
The NYT doxxing Scott Alexander for no real reason was wrong, but most of the defenses of SSC that I've read recently disgust me about as much as the original article did because they're all playing dumb: Alexander was clearly sympathetic to the idea of Race-IQ differences.
The modern liberal worldview is large, but cannot survive the revelation that there are racial differences in IQ. Any respectable outlet that indirectly promotes this viewpoint is an existential threat and it is rational for liberals to seek these out and destroy them.
In other words, according to the modern American consensus all published writers adhere to, Metz's attack on a rising threat would be commendable (other than the doxxing). It's only distasteful if you are sympathetic to Race/IQ connections, as most of his defenders secretly are.
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16 Feb
What caused the big Baby Boom of 46-63? The explanations most often given are economic, but the fundamental cause seems to be contraceptive failure: married couples didn't actually want families as large as they were having:
As the excerpt indicates, the problem was accentuated by a decline in the average age of marriage in those NW Euro countries west of the Hajnal line that had previously delayed it:
Histories of homosexuality often emphasize the war as a major turning point, when guys realized they weren't the only one and were exposed to prostitutes in major cities. Straight guys seemed to have a similar awakening, although they talked about it less.
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