Casual evening mezze in Northern Phoenicia. Olives 2000 year old trees.
Asides
HEURISTIC: In any profession, when someone becomes rich and/or famous and starts socializing or attending organized gatherings w/the rich & famous & members of the IAND*, you can start counting the time until the big blowup. * International Association of Name Droppers
After 4 days of diluvial rain from angry Zeus, Baal & other gods, stuck at home running Monte Carlo genetics simulations while eating stuffed grape leaves and busting IQ and race idiots on Twitter, finally the storm ended … and a lot of snow covering Mount Lebanon.
Psychologists use “IQ” to politely put people & entire races in boxes with the label “idiots”, and stick them there for a lifetime. They ruin people’s careers and potentials. Politely. I call psychologists (& IQ mountebanks) idiots to their face. Not politely.
The ONLY test of intelligence that counts is to see if the person detects Wittgenstein’s ruler situations: 1) When you use a ruler to measure the table, you are also using the table to measure the ruler. 2) The more unexpected the measurement, the more you apply W’s ruler.
Someone who hates ideas.
GENETIC PUZZLE While working on a paper w/ @pZalloua , some strange attributes of Ashkenazis & Lebanese: PCA1 puts Ashkenazis betw Lebanese Christians, Leb Druzes, Separdis, Cypr & Armenians/Caucasus, at Corner of North Levant-Armenia. [Left: publ paper;right: the new study] It is refined further elsewhere: there is no such thing as “Sephardic” other than for theological stuff: Morroccan/Maghrebi, Mediterranean/Italian, Mizrahi, Yemeni, Georgian, Iranian/Iraqi (went to India), etc.
Fat Tony Quotient = Intelligence
When I went to finance, I discovered that those who *tawk* about money were the ones who didn’t have it, couldn’t make it, or wanted a lot more but couldn’t get it. Same problem with IQ. Those who insist on measuring IQ are … the most stupid.
Arabs have no olive oil, Mediterranean stuff
