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May 31, 2006
Category: Science
Percentage of Students Earning Degrees in Science and Math Has Fallen, GAO Tells Lawmakers ($$$), but this is all you need to know: The GAO reported that 27 percent of students obtained degrees in those fields, which are known as...
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Category: Science
Apropos of this week's Ask a Science Blogger, AMERICANS SUPPORT FREE ACCESS TO RESEARCH. Not that their opinion matters!...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:50 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
The title is tongue in cheek, some researchers now are suggesting that speciation may be proportional to a particular energetic value. R.A. Fisher wanted an "ideal gas law" for evolutionary genetics, but this is ridiculous! In any case, one issue...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
This lion research is just cool. Hey, I'm human, I'm a sucker for cats, and the bigger the better: Understanding the phylogeographic processes affecting endangered species is crucial both to interpreting their evolutionary history and to the establishment of conservation...
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Category: Evolution
The American Journal of Human Genetics has a paper in its pre-print section titled "A geographically explicit genetic model of worldwide human settlement history." I quickly skimmed it (and uploaded it into the GNXP forum). I have serious issues some...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2006
Category: Genetics
PLOS Genetics has a nice review titled The Jewels of Our Genome: The Search for the Genomic Changes Underlying the Evolutionarily Unique Capacities of the Human Brain. It is short and pithy and hits the major points (e.g., SNPs vs....
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
I was pointed to this research (via David) that is just out about the correlation between variation on DRD4 and "sexual arousal." From the press release: Interestingly, some forms of variants in this gene were shown to have a depressing...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:20 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2006
Category: Culture
I don't know what to think about this year's idol winner, but hey, perhaps he won't be a closeted gay man always in image control mode because of his "secret" (not that there's anything wrong with that!). As for the...
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May 25, 2006
Category: Culture
My friend Manish Vij just started a new brown themed weblog, aptly titled UltraBrown. Anyway, this entry is hilarious. Talk about seeing the world only through your own lens! When I was in San Francisco once someone came up to...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:37 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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