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Monthly Archives: March 1999

Hong’s Theory of Social Bell Curves

16-Mar-99

I guess I haven’t told you about this theory yet, have I? It recently came up again in a conversation, so I might as well write it down here. As grand as it might sounds, it’s a very informal analogy of a distribution curve to characteristics of a society, mostly used to compare a homogeneous [...]

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Something about Genes

16-Mar-99

I was reading an issue of BusinessWeek some time ago and found an interesting article (“It’s All in the Genes? Ha!,” BusinessWeek, March 16, 1999, pp. 100-102). It’s about the theory that challenges the established genetics community which believes that the genes are the only agents that transfer the traits from the previous generation to [...]

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