http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:28:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/comment-page-1/#comment-17322 Jim Savage Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:25:20 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/#comment-17322 www.otterjoy.com/OtterHistory.html http://www.otterjoy.com/OtterHistory.html

]]> http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/comment-page-1/#comment-17321 Jim Savage Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:23:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/#comment-17321 Wonderfully sarcastic. Do you ever dream ? Your quip about training otters can be controverted by checking out Broaden that petrified mind of yours. Wonderfully sarcastic. Do you ever dream ? Your quip about training otters can be controverted by checking out
Broaden that petrified mind of yours.

]]> http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/comment-page-1/#comment-5525 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Fact Checking via Google Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:49:28 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/#comment-5525 [...] The ‘1421’ myth exposed. Rips large gaping holes in Menzies’ book (previously discussed on Savage Minds). This site was the result of an undergraduate seminar at UC San Diego (UCSD) in which students read Mao: The Unknown Story and compared the sources with those from other books and articles on modern Chinese history – with rather devastating results. (What a great teaching project!) Here is a page devoted to criticizing the statistical methods used in The Bell Curve. [I am completely unqualified to evaluate the math on this site, but it seemed worth including in the list.] [...] [...] The ‘1421’ myth exposed. Rips large gaping holes in Menzies’ book (previously discussed on Savage Minds). This site was the result of an undergraduate seminar at UC San Diego (UCSD) in which students read Mao: The Unknown Story and compared the sources with those from other books and articles on modern Chinese history – with rather devastating results. (What a great teaching project!) Here is a page devoted to criticizing the statistical methods used in The Bell Curve. [I am completely unqualified to evaluate the math on this site, but it seemed worth including in the list.] [...]

]]> http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/comment-page-1/#comment-4313 Kerim Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:47:59 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/#comment-4313 I lost interest in the book after reading <a href="http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2005/10/gavin-menzies-and-ming-voyages.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. I lost interest in the book after reading this.

]]> http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/comment-page-1/#comment-4247 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » The Invention of the World: Islam in the West Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:22:43 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/#comment-4247 [...] About « 1421 [...] [...] About « 1421 [...]

]]> http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/comment-page-1/#comment-4243 k’alebøl » Columbus beaten by Ming Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:10:35 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/03/17/1421/#comment-4243 [...] It doesn’t really matter whether Columbus was that posterior construct, Catalan, or not; the Mings got there first, using trained otters. Trevor ap Patnarthur on 2006/3/21 @ 19:57 in Splog, Of the sea, Late Middle ‹‹ Trebucheting China from the moon ‹‹ [...] [...] It doesn’t really matter whether Columbus was that posterior construct, Catalan, or not; the Mings got there first, using trained otters. Trevor ap Patnarthur on 2006/3/21 @ 19:57 in Splog, Of the sea, Late Middle ‹‹ Trebucheting China from the moon ‹‹ [...]

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