Tag: research
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2025 Research Plan – The Mythology of Violence
As mentioned in the last post, my 2025 reading list is mostly going to be mythology. Challenge: If liberals are right and violence is “learned” (as per Montagu and the Seville Statement) then there should be myths of the origins of the learning of this violence. If conservatives are right and violence gradually evolved from…
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2025 – The Year of the Myth
I’ve never been one to enjoy myth, but I’m on a quest to find a myth of the origin of human violence, or ROBA. I actually don’t believe there is one. I believe it’s been with us since the beginning. So there’s no myth. ROBA is simply who we are. Or, I should say, humans…
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The 2024 Research Recap
I read a lot in 2024. You can see the list here, but yesterday I did a live stream where I review all the 66 books I read. It’s 4.5 hours so it’ll only take up a little more than half your day! Call For Help – Thumbnail and Publishing Templates If anyone is willing…
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2024 Research In Review: 25,590 pages across 66 books
This was a very fulfilling year of reading. Most books I read were non-fiction. I read very slowly, at around 15 pages per hour, and I take a ton of notes. My bogey was 68 pages per day. I hit 25,590 which is 70 pages per day, which was a major grind. I read from…
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A Thorndike Approach to the Science of Violence
I just finished Lynn Thorndike’s History of Magic and Experimental Science, an 8-volume series with 5706 pages total (not including indices). I started reading it April 18, 2023 and got through three quarters of it in 8 months. I finished it today August 6, 2024 almost 8 months later. So on average, to finish this…
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Self-Reinforcing Kinship Mesh Networks Enforced by ROBA
Lewis Morgan’s Ancient Society (1877) is one of the more thorough kinship books written during the late 19th century. It’s worth noting his work because he appears to have been at the cutting of a science of kinship that has basically faded from popular memory. Morgan had previously done enormous legwork in his Systems of…
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Research Recap for the Art of Violence in 2023
Below is a summary of my research in 2023 for my ongoing Art of Violence project. Total Pages Read: 21,575 Average pp/week: 413 Average pp/day: 59 # of Books Completed: 59 Avg. length of books completed: 336 pages (Note that many of those books’ pages were read in 2022 and weren’t added to the 2023…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – A Stuntman’s Take
Many spoilers ahead. Robert Pirsig’s first book tells of the author’s cross-country motorcycle journey with his son Chris in the 70s. Their companions are a couple of technophobes who maintain their motorcycle despire their intense dislike of technological society. They’re the kind who just want to get away from “it all.” This “it all” fuels…
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The Action-Researcher – A Look Back on Two Years of Reading
Every weekday I wake up around 3:30am and read from 4am until 9am. 5 hours of uninterrupted reading allows me to read roughly 600 pages per week. I started this regimen 5 years ago when I started reading the Bible cover to cover (albeit at the time I was only getting through maybe 200 pages…