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Got these pix via a forward. Thought it might be a nice change of pace.......
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February 29, 2008
Rewriting Islam permlink
Category: Religion
Lots of articles on the radical reinterpretation of the Hadith in Turkey. The Hadith serve as the basis for Islamic law, and orthopraxy more generally. I am on the record as saying that texts don't in the end determine anything,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:05 AM • 3 Comments •
Selection, but for what??? permlink
Category: Genetics
In my post below about a possible locus to look at to explain the normal variation in hair form we see around us a reader asked: I was once suckered into giving a course on animal ecophysiology (I was told...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:27 AM • 15 Comments •
February 28, 2008
Delegate calculator permlink
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If you haven't, check out Slate's delegate calculator. It looks hard for HRC.......
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:44 PM • 1 Comments •
Science blogs, what are they good for? permlink
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John Hawks as a long post on the kerfuffle over "good" science blogging. I think John is right to emphasize the importance of search engine traffic for "specialist" posts; there's a significant long tail effect here....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:25 PM • 0 Comments •
William F. Buckely was a racist permlink
Category: Politics
Many are quoting this from an editorial by William F. Buckley Jr.: "The central question that emerges...is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:55 AM • 22 Comments •
Mitty Romney is hyper-typical for a Mormon permlink
Category: Religion
The Audacious Epigone crunches the Pew Religion Survey and comes up with some more insights.......
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:00 AM • 1 Comments •
February 27, 2008
Why is hair kinky? permlink
Category: Genetics
I saw this paper in Nature Genetics, Disruption of P2RY5, an orphan G protein-coupled receptor, underlies autosomal recessive woolly hair: The genetic determinants of hair texture in humans are largely unknown. Several human syndromes exist in which woolly hair comprises...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:24 PM • 12 Comments •
Maybe it's agriculture - soft sweep TRPV6 permlink
Category: Genetics
Parallel Selection on TRPV6 in Human Populations (Open Access): ...The selective footprints, however, are significantly differentiated between non-African populations and estimated to be younger than an ancestral population of non-Africans. The possibility of a single selection event occurring in an...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:03 PM • 0 Comments •
February 26, 2008
Where are brown people short? permlink
Category: Culture
In the comments to my post, Why brown people are midgets, a reader pointed me to this paper, which tabulates and analyzes some data from the 1960s for males. There isn't anything too surprising in the data set; Punjabis are...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:18 PM • 1 Comments •
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