The Social Pathologist

The things you see at Royal Ascot. On ladies day no less! It's all class. Elgar's Britain is dead. So sad. (From The Dai...

Recently Ferdinand Bardamu put up quite a good post arguing the merits of a guaranteed living income . Voxday has also put up a couple of ...

Australia is blessed with sun to the degree that Canada is blessed with snow. It's exceptional for it not to be sunny here.  As a conseq...

Most of the manospehere has rightly condemned the slutwalk phenomenon for the idiocy that it is.  In the end what the sluts are protesting a...

Shoppers' shock as man proposes in mall food court........... and is REJECTED. Cringe. He may not feel that great at the moment but h...

In the post on engine design, commentator R Brockman made the following comment; The interesting question is whether there are multiple sta...

Men usually find some degree of happiness in the satisfaction of their desires. The hungry man is a happy when fed, the thirsty man, after a...

In the post on engine design, commentator R Brockman made the following comment; The interesting question is whether there are multiple...

To tell the truth, I'm not actually that interested in the Dominiqe Strauss-Kahn controversy. High powered officials have a long history...

Modern auto engines are marvelously complex pieces of machinery. Over a century of improvement has resulted in engines that are lighter, mor...

In the previous post, I tried to illustrate, using the engine example, of how optimising for one paramenter in a multiparametric system, may...

Modern passenger car engines, such as this one , are conservatively designed.  Their components are not stressed to their limits in order to...

There are several intellectual assumptions which I feel are at the root of many of society's maladies. One of the them is what I would c...

One of the reasons why I think the Modern West is in decline is because the political theory upon which it is premised is based on a misunde...

A week or so ago, Roissy linked to another series of female facial composites . Here, beautiful actresses were paired together over several ...

Following up on the previous post I thought I would link a few studies on the subject of homophily. (I've decided not to provide an ex...

Apologies to my readers in not getting back to you earlier. Let's just say its been an incredibly hectic few weeks and jet lag has not h...

I want to perform a little experiment. Pick the odd man out from the picture below. It's not meant to be a trick question and spend le...

Just want to let my readers know that I will be away for the next two and half weeks. Will resume blogging after then.

Many Australians don't like the Japanese for what did to our Servicemen and their behaviour towards our allies. Still the generation th...