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October 31, 2006
Category: Blog
Vote early and vote often for Shelley Batts. Shelley makes her pitch here. Shelley is a hard working graduate student with moral fiber. Q: Is it permissable for believers to aid a kuffar in amassing riches? A: It is permissable...
Posted by Razib at 6:08 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Genetics
I was going to continue with my review of chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies today, but time does not permit. This section was to focus on the orgination of advantageous mutations from the stochastic cauldron of...
Posted by Razib at 10:35 AM • 0 Comments •
October 30, 2006
Category: Blog
O believers! If kuffar flesh is beauteous it is permissable for the faithful to partake of it without nikah.... Q: Is a beauteous kuffar female permissable or unclean? A: Lo! A beauteous kuffar female is both permissable and unclean! If...
Posted by Razib at 11:32 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Blog
My friend John Derbyshire chronicles his spiritual devolution over the past few years.......
Posted by Razib at 3:04 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Heterogeneous Genomic Molecular Clocks in Primates: The rate at which mutations accumulate in a genome, referred as a "molecular clock," is an instrumental tool in molecular evolution and phylogenetics. Different types of mutations occur via distinctive molecular pathways. In particular,...
Posted by Razib at 10:05 AM • 4 Comments •
October 29, 2006
Category: Genetics
Assume that you have a new mutation, totally novel. What's its probability of going extinct in one generation? That is, it doesn't get passed on.... Consider, you have a population of N individuals. Fix the population size across nonoverlapping generations....
Posted by Razib at 2:51 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Religion
The Washington Post has a fun profile of Sam Harris. This part cracked me up: "If the Koran were exactly the same," he said, toward the end of the night, "and there were just one line added to it, and...
Posted by Razib at 1:23 AM • 43 Comments •
October 28, 2006
Category: Blog
This week's Ask a ScienceBlogger: What's the most underfunded scientific field that shouldn't be underfunded?... I'll say old fashioned biological anthropology. There's a reason that a pall was cast over thsi field after World War II, but we need to...
Posted by Razib at 4:32 AM • 4 Comments •
There is a working paper out which reports on the nature of the religiousness of the professoriate. Some data of interest.... * Proportion of professors with "No religion" - 31% (vs. ~10% for the general public) "I don't believe in...
Posted by Razib at 3:44 AM • 9 Comments •
October 27, 2006
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