Comments on: SSC Gives A Wedding Speech http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Monday Miscellany: Addiction, Affirmative Consent, Anecdata | Gruntled & Hinged http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-151457 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:22:08 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-151457 […] I failed to put this in the last link roundup, but two friends got married, Scott wrote a toast, and the vows were lovely. I offer you my favorite part (besides the part where two wonderful […]

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]]> By: Toby Bartels http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147792 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:48:34 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147792 If you have a Y chromosome, then it’s (probably) identical to your paternal grandfather’s. Also, your mitochondrial DNA is (probably) identical to your maternal grandmother’s.

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]]> By: Toby Bartels http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147770 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:10:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147770 Queen Elizabeth is also descended from Charlemagne. (So am I, according to our family genealogy, although I haven’t checked the branch that’s supposed to go to Charlemagne.) http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Descendants_of_Charlemagne

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147676 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:13:17 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147676 I’d marry Slate Star Codex

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]]> By: Eric Rall http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147671 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:58:38 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147671 Probably not, for the reasons Taymon mention. I think male-line inheritance was more driven by cultural gender roles: the concept of a married woman joining her husband’s family and the concept of rulership being in the male sphere combine to mean that passing your lands and titles to your daughter really means passing them to your son-in-law.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147590 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:51:17 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147590 I’m currently in a PhD program and my advisor/PI very much fulfills the role of mentor to me and the other graduate students under his care. I tend to think of it as a science apprenticeship, though perhaps not as intensive as those of yore (I’m only in my second year, so I’m still taking classes and therefore has extra-lab academic things to do, but we meet for a couple hours a week to discuss my research, papers he’s had me read, etc.). There are over a million grad students in the US right now, and I don’t think my current setup is that uncommon among them, so mentorship may be more popular than you might think.

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]]> By: veronica d http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147588 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:40:42 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147588 s/portage/protoge/

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]]> By: veronica d http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147579 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:07:27 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147579 Plus few things mark status quite like having a young, amazing, hopeful talent that follows you. If your portage thrives, then you sit back and gather the accolades.

Plus, when you are ready to retire, they hit the prime of their career. In patronage based cultures this can affect very much the quality of your life.

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]]> By: Corey http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147574 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:48:06 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147574 anon1: Protégés are allies. Humans like allies.

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]]> By: James James http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/22/ssc-gives-a-wedding-speech/#comment-147487 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:53:31 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=2875#comment-147487 “Charlemagne probably does. I was able to follow his descendants on Wikipedia for quite a while before I got bored.”

That said, he doesn’t seem have that many descendants — many of the branches die out. Charlemagne lived 1200 years ago. 1500 years sounds a bit low even just counting Europeans.

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