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March 31, 2008
World religions - numbers over time.... permlink
Category: Religion
Well, it turns out that there isn't a handy-dandy reference for the numbers for various religions in the past. Mark Kirkorian over at The Corner linked to my earlier post where I expressed skepticism about the contention by the Vatican...
Posted by Razib at 3:33 PM • 5 Comments
The accommodation of religion permlink
Category: Religion
The Islamic Republic of Harvard?: But the decision put Harvard in the awkward position of having to arbitrate what constitutes legitimate religious practice. Marine claims there was a "moral and ethical responsibility" for the administration to act on this request,...
Posted by Razib at 2:04 AM • 6 Comments
Why genome wide scans aren't all that permlink
Category: Genetics
Dan MacArthur at Genetic Future has the details. Some of the stuff coming out of genomics reminds me a lot of what you see with social science; lots of sexy studies which turn out not to be as significant upon...
Posted by Razib at 3:56 PM • 2 Comments
More Muslims than Catholics...again permlink
Category: Religion
Update: Follow up post with some numbers and logic laid out. Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican: Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and...
Posted by Razib at 3:22 PM • 17 Comments
Impersonating Dan Dennett on religion permlink
Category: Culture
At my other weblog a long post on religion: On the most recent bloggingheads.tv you can watch Paul Bloom explaining why he thinks the propensity for theism is an innate bias of our species. Several years back Bloom wrote a...
Posted by Razib at 1:37 PM • 0 Comments
Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence permlink
Category: Evolution
I have a review copy of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; but I'm not planning on reading it at this point. See John Hawks for why. Sometimes interdisciplinary work sheds new light on old questions because...
Posted by Razib at 1:09 PM • 0 Comments
March 28, 2008
Katz update permlink
Category: Blog
Just an FYI, but Kat photos will be delayed by a day or so this week. But if you are interested in katage, check out this week's South Park....
Posted by Razib at 11:53 PM • 2 Comments
Gene Genie #24 permlink
Category:
Greg Laden has Gene Genie #24 up. I'll be hosting #30 at the end of April.......
Posted by Razib at 11:28 PM • 0 Comments
Geert Wilders & defaming Islam permlink
Category: Religion
Michael C. Moynihan has a article up at Reason, In Defense of Geert Wilders: In response to the controversy surrounding Fitna, Wilders' website was knocked offline by his American host, Network Solutions; he has been repeatedly denounced by the government...
Posted by Razib at 1:41 PM • 63 Comments
Uyghurs are hybrids permlink
Category: Genetics
Another paper is out which falls under the category of using genetics to understand human history; Analysis of Genomic Admixture in Uyghur and Its Implication in Mapping Strategy:The Uyghur (UIG) population, settled in Xinjiang, China, is a population presenting a...
Posted by Razib at 10:55 AM • 18 Comments
March 24, 2008
Minorities + minorities? permlink
Category: Culture
Do minorities feel they have more in common with each other rather than whites? See Inductivist....
Posted by Razib at 1:38 AM • 0 Comments
March 21, 2008
Muslim fundamentalists, then and now permlink
Category: Culture
It was in the 7th century of the Christian Era many of the events which shaped the course of Islamic sectarianism occurred. The major one you are aware of is the Shia-Sunni split; the reality of the origins of this...
Posted by Razib at 6:44 PM • 3 Comments
Kate Beckinsale treats? permlink
Category:
Guess what Kate Beckinsale prefers over sushi.......
Posted by Razib at 5:32 PM • 14 Comments
Patterns of admixture in Latin American mestizos permlink
Category: Genetics
New PLOS paper, Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos. Nothing new, but pushing the ball forward.......
Posted by Razib at 3:02 PM • 2 Comments
