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The Fundamentalist Xtians should not be allowed to hijack the language of Christianity. They are at least as much heretics to Christianity as the Arians and Gnostics of early Christian days.
Biblical inerrancy is not possible.
The books both above and below show the limitations of language and the impossibility of Biblical Inerrancy.
How can language be misused? Using General Semantics, this book was Written to explain Nazi propaganda and still used as a textbook
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This book explains why the above books on Christian Fundamentalism are politically important in America today.
Modern Society measures risk & predicts possible futures. The book below is a higly readable history of insurance, statistics and modern financial instruments.
Compare this to religion, in which it is presumed that the perfect society was known in the past and all that is necessary to do is to return to that perfect society.
Fascinating, highly readable and fun book on modern mathematics and its limitations. If you are interested in ideas, this is your book!
This is a collection of Hofstader's Scientific American articles. Again, a very fascinationg and highly readable book, requiring no mathematical background. (Buy it used - it is one of the books that will keep disappearing.)
Older, very fascinating book on mathematical ideas. Did you know there are three kinds of infinity?
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| Wednesday, July 27, 2005 |
| Expensive gifts that can't be resold impress women |
Man! I wish I had known this back when it mattered. From Reuters.
Forget expensive presents or costly jewelry. Wining and dining is the best way for men to woo women, scientists said Tuesday.
Researchers at Imperial College London developed a mathematical formula and modeled courtship as a sequential game to find the best way to impress the ladies.
Their results show that offering an expensive present signals the man's serious intentions but he must be wary of being exploited by gold-diggers who will dump him after receiving the gift.
"Guys are less likely to offer expensive gifts to females they don't have a long-term interest in. And girls won't be impressed with cheap gifts. By offering expensive but worthless gifts, such as dinner and theater trips, the male pays no cost if the invitation isn't accepted," said Dr Peter Sozou, of University College London (UCL).
If women are not interested they are unlikely to accept the invitation, according to the research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. So expensive gifts work - if the women are interested. If not, an offer of an expensive gift that cannot be resold avoids the danger of Golddiggers.
This is news that will save men a lot of money, and will cost jewelers some sales. The right women are not damaged, and the wrong ones are weeded out.
Gee. This is GOOD research!
The following is from the originally published report by The Royal Society .
What are the characteristics of a good courtship gift?
We address this question using evolutionary game theory. A man may be able to indicate his long-term commitment to a woman by offering her a gift which is very costly to him. But he faces the danger of being exploited by a gold-digger who intends to dump him once she gets the gift.
The results from this study show that an "extravagant" gift which is costly to the man but worthless to the woman can solve the problem. The study shows also how an alternative version of the model may be applied to other animal species with no paternal care, again demonstrating a potentially important role for costly but worthless gifts.
The Royal Society has made this article, from Proceedings of The Royal Society B, free to view on-line. If you are interested in finding out more about Royal Society publications, please visit our publishing page.
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In response to huge interest in this article, we've now released it in full on the web.
You can read it at http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3283
Who would have thought the science community would provide the new agony aunts and uncles of 2005?
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In response to huge interest in this article, we've now released it in full on the web.
You can read it at http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3283
Who would have thought the science community would provide the new agony aunts and uncles of 2005?