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March 31, 2007
Day 5 of hot sauce - Mad Dog Liquid Fire permlink
Category: Blog
For Mad Dog Liquid Fire the same critique that I applied to Ass in Space applies. The only difference is that there was a nice tangy smoked flavor to it, so I will actually give it a 4 out of...
Posted by Razib at 10:07 PM • 1 Comments
Day 4 of hot sauce - You Can't Handle this Hot Sauce permlink
Category: Blog
You Can't Handle This Hot Sauce is subject to the same critique as Dave's Insanity. Only not as spicy (though close). 6.5 out of 10. I ate it with rice + Yumm! Sauce + avocado + black beans & onions...
Posted by Razib at 2:31 PM • 4 Comments
March 29, 2007
The importance of labs? permlink
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Steve Gimbel has a post up where he expresses skepticism of the utility of lab sections. Janet, Chad & Chad and RPM all offered responses. All that needs to be said from the various angles that I would have touched...
Posted by Razib at 1:16 PM • 8 Comments
Day 3 of hot sauce - Hottest Fuckin' Sauce permlink
Category: Blog
As some of you might have noticed, I was not impressed with Hot Sauce #2. For day 3, I had pepper-crusted beef, bacon, and arugula sandwiches and spicy mustard with the Hottest Fuckin' Sauce. As you can tell by the...
Posted by Razib at 12:27 PM • 3 Comments
INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali permlink
Category: Religion
Diana, formerly of "Letters from Gotham," reviews Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali at GNXP Classic. Here's her conclusion: And, unlike the chicken littles of the Right blogosphere, I think that is exactly what we are saying, even if in rather...
Posted by Razib at 11:44 AM • 0 Comments
March 28, 2007
The round-eyed Buddha permlink
Category: Religion
Seeing how everyone just loves it when I talk about Buddhism, I point you to a post on my other weblog, the round-eyed Buddha, where I review a book which discusses the relationship of the West and Buddhism over the...
Posted by Razib at 10:08 PM • 0 Comments
The long fuse of mammalian diversity permlink
Category: Evolution
Study Re-evaluates Evolution of Mammals: Until now, however, most paleontologists had favored a "short-fuse" model in which mammals came into their own almost immediately after the dominant reptiles vacated their habitats. Before the extinctions, most mammals were small nocturnal creatures....
Posted by Razib at 4:50 PM • 4 Comments
Day 2 of hot sauce - Ass in Space permlink
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Ass in Space was basically souped up Tabasco Sauce. In other words, it sucked!!!! I have nothing more to say about this lame excuse for a "hot" sauce.......
Posted by Razib at 12:11 PM • 6 Comments
A religious analogy permlink
Category: Religion
The discussion below about the adaptive value of religion was interesting, but it sparked in me an analogy which captures my attitude toward this phenomenon. Consider religions, such as Christianity, as analogs to political parties, such as Republicans. Many of...
Posted by Razib at 3:47 AM • 3 Comments
March 27, 2007
Day 1 of hot sauce - Dave's Insanity Hot Sauce permlink
Category: Blog
So, I tried out Dave's Insanity Hot Sauce with some Tuna pasta yesterday. Here's a comment from Amazon: "I am a real fan of hot sauce, hot peppers and anything that makes my eyes water, and I have to honestly...
Posted by Razib at 1:42 PM • 3 Comments
March 26, 2007
7 days of hot sauce permlink
Category: Blog
Regular readers know that I'm really into smokin' hot sauces. I mean real hot. I'm the guy who the chefs at the local Thai restaurant know well enough to get their habanero paste ready for the medium rare steak flank....
Posted by Razib at 3:36 PM • 16 Comments
European population substructure permlink
Category: Genetics
The American Journal of Human Genetics has an article up examining population substructure within Europe (or, more precisely, the varation of genes), Measuring European Population Stratification with Microarray Genotype Data. From the discussion: PC1 [the largest principle component of variance]...
Posted by Razib at 8:37 AM • 0 Comments
March 25, 2007
Is religion an adaptation? permlink
Category: Genetics
Paul Zed Myers comments on Alan MacNeill's contention: To an evolutionary biologist, such pan-specificity combined with continuous variation strongly suggests that one is dealing with an evolutionary adaptation. Myers sayeth: For another example, people in the US largely speak English,...
Posted by Razib at 8:59 PM • 36 Comments
Sewall Wright, a father of evolutionary genetics permlink
Category: Genetics
Over at GNXP Classic David B has an introductory preface to a series of posts he plans to write on the great evolutionary geneticist Sewall Wright. David sums up: As for my own assessment, for what little it is worth,...
Posted by Razib at 1:07 PM • 2 Comments
