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Cafe Chat: Open Thread January 2019

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Hello, time for another thread dedicated to discussing whatever, within  the rules . Feel free to talk about anything of interest here, perhaps enjoying some coffee or a cup of tea while you're at it.

History of homegrown Japanese science finally adds up

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This is a good though somewhat old article from the Japanese times that tries to correct the false notion that scientific development in Japan stagnated during the Edo period, and that it wasn't until the Media restoration that Japan modernized its science.  Aside from the information in this article, I would go on to say that there had been many changes to Japanese society in terms of economics, infrastructure, laws, social organization, as well as scientific practices such as silviculture, as well as plantation forestry.  Much more needs to be said and will be said on this blog in a while for now I simply present excerpts from the article as well as a link. Article snipped due to potential copyright issues. Please contact me if you own this article and need me to reduce the amount of material reproduced. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2003/08/...

Cafe Chat: Open Thread December 2018

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Hello, time for another thread dedicated to discussing whatever, within the rules . Feel free to talk about anything of interest here, perhaps enjoying some coffee or a cup of tea while you're at it.

Black Démolition

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Part of my series of classic AR re-publishing, and re-posts. https://www.amren.com/news/2006/04/black_dmolition/ Bruno Gheerbrant, American Renaissance, June 2005                                                                                 Congolese Belgians Like the rest of Europe, Belgium is in the process of transforming itself. In Brussels, the symbol of this transformation is a neighborhood not far from a big downtown intersection called Porte de Namur. Long ago, the neighborhood had a Belgian name, which no one can remember. Now it is known as Matongé, a street name in Kinshasa, in the Congo. Over the last several decades, Africans have gradually taken over. Until the early 1990s, Matongé was a pleasant place to visit. African students — mostly from the former Belgian...

Jared Taylor: The Biological Reality of Race

In this video Jared Taylor explains why some people argue that race is not a real biological reality but a sociological optical illusion.  He addresses how this idea is wrong and what it is partly based on: The idea that races don’t exist, and are a sociological optical illusion defies common sense. The idea that most of human variation occurs within races, and not between races is misleading. The differences between races are significant, just like the small differences between men and women lead to differences in important traits. Race differences are differences in averages between groups.  Just because there is greater variation within sexes, for traits such as height, than between sexes, it does not mean that an average height difference between sexes does not exist. People who deny that races exist would also have to deny that dog breeds exist. For dog breeds even though most of the variation is within a breed, it does not mean there are no significan...