"So cute it hurts...."
Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.
June 30, 2007
Ratatouille permlink
Category: Blog
Saw Ratatouille today. Never once checked the time. Very good film. So far Yahoo Movie critics & users give it an A-, and it seems like it'll win the box office. Much recommended (Pixar animation is the bomb obviously, but...
Posted by Razib at 7:29 PM • 9 Comments
June 29, 2007
The Normal Distribution permlink
Category: Science
Chris of Mixing Memory has a must read post up about the normal distribution. The man did the tedious work of encoding mathematical notation and symbolism into HTML, so he should take a bow....
Posted by Razib at 5:39 PM • 1 Comments
iPhone. Atheists are oppressed. permlink
Category: Blog
Update: iPhone, iPhone, iPhone? Jobs is God? iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone!!! iPhone. iPhone. iPhone? iPhone-iPhone. iPhone iPhone. Apple Store, wet my pants. iPhone iPhone iPhone. iPhone!!!! iPhone iPhone. iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone. Jobs does not exist!...
Posted by Razib at 2:58 PM • 4 Comments
June 28, 2007
Domestication of humans by the cat permlink
Category: Genetics
There's a paper to be published on domestic cat phylogenetics in Science tomorrow. National Geographic has a summary, but Forbes has a more thorough treatment. The short of it is that the maternal lineages (mtDNA) of domestic cats seem derived...
Posted by Razib at 3:43 PM • 18 Comments
The Neandertal genome, part n permlink
Category: Genetics
John Hawks has the details on a new paper (DOI might not work yet) coming out in PNAS. The researchers trying to reconstruct the Neandertal genome are reporting biases in degradation which is aiding their task. Scientific American has a...
Posted by Razib at 2:49 AM • 1 Comments
June 27, 2007
Baby vs. the cobra permlink
Category: Blog
Via Sepia Mutiny....
Posted by Razib at 10:23 PM • 1 Comments
Why bother with Jews and other odds and ends permlink
Category: Culture
Someone named Schvach Yid left an irritated comment in response to my post about the term Judeo-Christian. He also sent me a short email clearing up the fact that Judaism is more than legalism, and that it is steep to...
Posted by Razib at 4:10 PM • 5 Comments
On the bones permlink
Category: Evolution
John Hawks has an excellent decomposition of the story yesterday in The New York Times about paleoanthropology and biology....
Posted by Razib at 1:54 PM • 0 Comments
June 26, 2007
Paleontology & genetics - ebony & ivory? in The New York Times permlink
Category: Evolution
John Noble Wilford in The New York Times has a piece titled The Human Family Tree Has Become a Bush With Many Branches, which reflects the current consensus thinking that the hominid lineage was until recently relatively diversified, with a...
Posted by Razib at 10:05 AM • 3 Comments
June 25, 2007
Nick Wade on recent evolution human in The New York Times permlink
Category: Genetics
Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally (The New York Times):No one yet knows to what extent natural selection for local conditions may have forced the populations on each continent down different evolutionary tracks. But those tracks could turn out...
Posted by Razib at 11:45 PM • 7 Comments
Selection on a quantitative trait permlink
Category: Genetics
On occasion I've decided I'll quickly review some population genetic concepts. These are really "background assumptions," but sometimes comments make it clear that they're not in the "common" background. So to the left you see two normal distributions, assume these...
Posted by Razib at 2:20 PM • 0 Comments
Mathematical biologist Martin Nowak interviewed permlink
Category: Genetics
Agnostic translates an Italian interview with mathematical biologist Martin Nowak. Here are my posts read relating to Nowak's work. His book Evolutionary Dynamics is one of the best coffee table books for nerds out there (nice sturdy hard cover and...
Posted by Razib at 3:31 AM • 0 Comments
Villages 400,000 years ago? permlink
Category: Evolution
Strange. Rise of man theory 'out by 400,000 years'. I'm skeptical, not that I know anything in detail about palaeanthropology aside from books and a few advanced courses. In any case: Our earliest ancestors gave up hunter-gathering and took to...
Posted by Razib at 1:22 AM • 4 Comments
HIV, hominids, humans, chimps, gorillas and evolution permlink
Category: Genetics
By now you've probably heard/read about the relationship of HIV resistance and hominoid evolutionary genetics. The original paper in Science that started it off is titled Restriction of an Extinct Retrovirus by the Human TRIM5α Antiviral Protein; quite a mouthful....
Posted by Razib at 1:04 AM • 0 Comments
June 24, 2007
Judeo-Christian, an abuse of language? permlink
Category: Blog
I've always been ill at ease with the term "Judeo-Christian." As someone from a Muslim cultural background I was minimally familiar with the tenets and principles of the Islamic religion. As someone who was socialized with both Jews and Christians...
Posted by Razib at 12:30 PM • 34 Comments
June 23, 2007
Atheism(Lonelygirl15) = AngryLittleGirl permlink
Category: Blog
Agnostic says that Lonelygirl15 reincarnated as AngryLittleGirl. I haven't watched any of the other clips, but I found this shit hilarious: She's like a somewhat less ugly version of real-life Jacqueline Passey. Interestingly, the actress playing AngryLittleGirl is convincing due...
Posted by Razib at 3:08 PM • 13 Comments
