Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Do you think consciously in:
Words?
Pictures?
Movies?
Visual diagrams?
Non-visual diagrams?
Something else?

***"That hilarious moment when a black talk show host gives DNA results to a white supremacist, 'Hey Bro!'"
....
"The studio audience laughed while Goddard, who is a black woman, told him the news that genetically he is 14 per cent Sub Saharan African, 86 per cent European, which Cobb promptly dismissed as 'statistical noise.'"
http://preview.tinyurl.com/n4hxjqb
Via Wolf Bro on Facebook

The figure I've seen for White Americans with nonwhite ancestry is 20 percent.  However, I suspect this assumes all European immigrants have been of pure White ancestry.

***From Twitter:

Ben Zimmer ‏@bgzimmer My latest for @lexiconvalley: Batman bin Suparman Arrested on Drug Charges. Here's How He Got His Name. http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/11/11/batman_indonesian_man_with_superhero_name_runs_afoul_of_the_law.html

Political Animal ‏@politic_animal In debate on probation, Richard Drax MP suggesting replacing the Border Agency with a 'militaristic' organisation of conscripted offenders.
Retweeted by Moonbootica

Political Animal ‏@politic_animal They would apparently, use the armed forces' cast-off ships and aeroplanes to patrol the borders. Quite frankly, I'm a bit scared.
Retweeted by Moonbootica

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