{"id":27566,"date":"2010-09-24T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2010-09-26T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T19:38:11","slug":"friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-september-24th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/24\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-september-24th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fluff \u2013 September 24th, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1. First, a post from the past<\/strong>: Historical Dynamics and contingent conditions of religion <\/a><\/p>\n

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2. Weird search query of the week<\/strong>: “porn makes you straight.”<\/p>\n

3. Comment of the week<\/strong>, in response to Swedes are not sexist or nativist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been living in Sweden for somewhat more than a year now. I previously lived in Canada, the USA, and Germany. From those countries, the Swedes are at least in my impression the most backward thinking nation I\u2019ve encountered. Nowhere else have I heard so often the replies \u201cBecause we\u2019ve always done it like that.\u201d or \u201cThat\u2019s just how we do it in Sweden,\u201d when I inquired about the reason for a particularly dumb procedure or policy. (An example: You won\u2019t get a contract for a phone unless you\u2019ve paid taxes for at least 7 months. WTF, I wonder, is that business of the phone company? And let me not get started about the rental situation in that country, but hey, they\u2019ve always done it like that.) I always want to tell them, if we\u2019d all be thinking that way, we\u2019d still live in the stone age. But then, the Swedes are way too polite to tolerate my bickering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

4) Poll question<\/strong>….
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