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January 31, 2006
Fuller full of himself permlink
Category: Creationism
The Guardian has a piece titled Steve Fuller: Designer trouble, in reference to testimony that the aforementioned professor gave to the Dover court. After reading the article I have to say that I'm not surprised that he testified, he seems...
Posted by Razib at 3:34 PM • 3 Comments
Evolution bites on the web permlink
Category: Evolution
When I use terms not in regular circulation like linkage disequilibrium, or those which I suspect aren't as well understood as I think they should be, like random genetic drift, I usually make reference to the companion website to Mark...
Posted by Razib at 2:53 PM • 0 Comments
Transhumanist delusions about the first derivative? permlink
Category: Transhumanism
In response to a skeptical response to my post below from RPM I have posted an entry on my other weblog asking whether I am deluding myself in thinking that our generation is at an axial pivot in the progression...
Posted by Razib at 1:20 PM • 0 Comments
January 30, 2006
Blogs of the Union permlink
Category: Blog
Radio Open Source is calling for Blogs of the Union (BOTU)posts. So here I go.... Ten years ago the internet was a new and innovative technology that was going to change our lives as it entered into mass culture. Today...
Posted by Razib at 10:30 PM • 10 Comments
Wet or dry ear wax? permlink
Category: Genetics
Life can be really funny. When I was in college I was incorrigibly curious and I asked a Korean American friend if his ear wax was dry (I'd read that East Asians had dry ear wax once) and his response...
Posted by Razib at 2:20 PM • 18 Comments
January 29, 2006
Finding out who your "ancestors" were via DNA permlink
Category: Genetics
Newsweek has an entertaining story which highlights the recent penetration of science into the venerable enterprise of genealogy. The good: ...Adopted at birth, Royer knew nothing about her biological parents. But certain physical traits-wide nose, dark skin-led people to guess...
Posted by Razib at 10:54 PM • 4 Comments
January 28, 2006
Every ratio 3:1!!! permlink
Category: Genetics
Science isn't perfect, it often misses obvious truths. Consider the 2005 Nobel in medicine, awarded for the work of Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren in establishing the connection between Helicobacter pylori and ulcers. After the fact you hear many...
Posted by Razib at 4:11 AM • 10 Comments
January 26, 2006
But it does move.... permlink
Category: Creationism
All of the other science bloggers are talking about the finding that the British might be more Creation-friendly than we'd have thought. My first thought is that we need to be careful about the survey. But my second thought is...
Posted by Razib at 2:43 PM • 28 Comments
Feather development in 3-D permlink
Category: Development
Over the past 5 years Matthew Harris has been doing some interesting research into feather morphogenesis, and he has produced some must watch videos. His work on quantitative modeling of development via the activator-inhibitor system is, I believe, a necessary...
Posted by Razib at 11:16 AM • 1 Comments
January 25, 2006
Earth like planet detected? permlink
Category: Space
Since Chad Orzel hasn't posted on it, I figured I'd link to this story about a Nature letter which announces the discovery of a planet 5.5 times as massive as our own! This is pretty cool, I was a big...
Posted by Razib at 5:10 PM • 0 Comments
Q & A with Judith Rich Harris permlink
Category: Psychology
Judith Rich Harris is author of The Nurture Assumption and the forthcoming No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. Her controversial thesis is that parents don't matter, genes and peers do, in making you who you are as a...
Posted by Razib at 3:55 PM • 0 Comments
Fairies under the rock.... permlink
Category: Anthroplogy
This article about the halting of land development in Scotland because of "fairies" under a rock is illustrative. When comparing nations in regards to belief in the paranormal we often assume that "modernity" and education have banished magical thinking. I...
Posted by Razib at 2:33 PM • 3 Comments
January 24, 2006
"Dangerous Ideas" permlink
Category: Culture
A few weeks ago Edge.com asked prominent thinkers what their Dangerous Idea was. The poser of the question was Steven Pinker, and he's on Radio Open Source today (you can listen on the web, wait 'till 7 PM EDT). I...
Posted by Razib at 12:30 PM • 14 Comments
January 23, 2006
A monkey too smart permlink
Category: Evolution
Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who is a graduate student at a university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the department of "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology." My friend asserted that most people within her department are dumb, overbearing,...
Posted by Razib at 9:18 AM • 9 Comments
January 21, 2006
Evolution + psychology permlink
Category: Creationism
I have a post on the importance of understanding human psychology in relation to evolution and Intelligent Design/Creationism on my other weblog. Related: Ed Brayton has the nitty gritty on what's going on in Utah....
Posted by Razib at 10:43 AM • 1 Comments
Cheap genomes permlink
Category: Genetics
The Harvard Crimson reports on George Church's attempt to develop super-cheap genomic sequencing, though this time he's giving a $10-20,000 price point quote instead of $1,000. Scientific American has a subscription only piece....
Posted by Razib at 9:31 AM • 1 Comments
