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September 30, 2008
The Church teaches Muslims evolution? permlink
Category: Culture
The New York Times has an article up about how French Muslim girls are enrolling in Catholics schools, in part because of the relatives freedoms these religious schools offer in terms of their dress vis-a-vis the normal public schools. I...
Posted by Razib at 2:47 AM • 25 Comments
September 29, 2008
Hot peppers & pain permlink
Category: Science
Bayblab has a post up, Which organisms can feel pain?, on capsaicin. The post also points to an article about a man dying after eating habanero chili paste (though the article makes me suspect it was some allergy). Related: 7...
Posted by Razib at 9:18 PM • 5 Comments
Academic fads in graphs permlink
Category: Culture
Agnostic has three posts of interest over the past week: Graphs on the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and other stupid academic fads, Response to criticism on the death of academic -isms and Graphs on the rise of scientific approaches to...
Posted by Razib at 4:22 PM • 0 Comments
Selectives sweeps and the alleles that love them permlink
Category: Genetics
Another paper with another technique to detect positive selection in the human genome, Identification of local selective sweeps in human populations since the exodus from Africa: Selection on the human genome has been studied using comparative genomics and SNP architecture...
Posted by Razib at 8:14 AM • 0 Comments
September 28, 2008
Genetic engineering in the service of social engineering? permlink
Category: Culture
FuturePundit comments on the recent story about the shift away from the "Mediterranean diet" in the Mediterranean, specifically Greece. This is naturally leading to greater obesity. FuturePundit states: Fresh produce and olive oil can't compete with hamburgers and fries. We...
Posted by Razib at 10:53 PM • 34 Comments
The sexes do not differ on science permlink
Category: Science
When I look through the GSS I am struck, and sometimes disturbed, by the way attitudes toward science track various demographic slices. It is no surprise that Fundamentalist Christians tend to be suspicious of science, but blacks and the poor...
Posted by Razib at 3:17 PM • 1 Comments
Comments permlink
Category: Blog
I have turned on moderation for all comments. This means that you may have to wait a considerable amount of time before I publish them on the weblog (I will not be checking and approving on an iPhone for example)....
Posted by Razib at 4:59 AM •
September 27, 2008
None dare call it eugenics! permlink
Category: Genetics
There is some buzz recently about a lawmaker in Louisiana, John LaBruzzo, who is proposing to pay poor women to be sterilized. His logic seems naively reminiscent of Thomas Malthus. It any case, I will admit that I'm generally skeptical...
Posted by Razib at 3:49 PM • 24 Comments
R. A. Fisher and the Adaptive Landscape permlink
Category: Genetics
R. A. Fisher and the Adaptive Landscape: ...My own interpretation is that Fisher was sceptical about the value of the landscape concept as such, because both environmental and genetic conditions were too changeable for the metaphor of a 'landscape' to...
Posted by Razib at 2:36 PM • 0 Comments
Demography + Genetics → insight? permlink
Category: Genetics
Earlier I reviewed a new paper which made some species-wide grand claims about the nature of human demographic dynamics. Specifically, as it relates to the ratio and reproduction of males and females over time. But to me some of the...
Posted by Razib at 8:22 AM • 0 Comments
September 26, 2008
Liberals are conservative with names; conservatives not really? permlink
Category: Culture
Of Names and Politics: The Palin Story (H/T Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science): Characteristic blue state names: Angela, Catherine, Henry, Margaret, Mark, Patrick, Peter and Sophie. Characteristic red state names: Addison, Ashlyn, Dakota, Gage, Peyton, Reagan, Rylee and...
Posted by Razib at 6:58 PM • 15 Comments
10 Questions for Parag Khanna permlink
Category: Culture
I have an interview in the form of 10 questions with Parag Khanna, author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order....
Posted by Razib at 3:58 PM • 0 Comments
Male skew; dude likes ladies permlink
Category: Genetics
PLoS Genetis has a neat paper up which clarifies something which we kind of already knew, Sex-Biased Evolutionary Forces Shape Genomic Patterns of Human Diversity: Like many primate species, the mating system of humans is considered to be moderately polygynous...
Posted by Razib at 9:14 AM • 4 Comments
September 25, 2008
Population substructure in Japan permlink
Category: Genetics
Dienekes points me to a new paper, Japanese Population Structure, Based on SNP Genotypes from 7003 Individuals Compared to Other Ethnic Groups: Effects on Population-Based Association Studies: ....Here, we examined Japanese population structure by Eigenanalysis, using the genotypes for 140,387...
Posted by Razib at 6:00 PM • 0 Comments
Liberals & conservatives; religious edition permlink
Category: Culture
What if there were no God? Politically conservative and liberal Christians imagine their lives without faith: A sample of devout Christian adults, ranging widely in political orientation, described what their lives (and the world) might be like had they never...
Posted by Razib at 3:18 AM • 8 Comments
September 24, 2008
Four Stone Hearth #50 permlink
Category: Science
Yann is hosting Four Stone Hearth #50....
Posted by Razib at 2:31 PM • 0 Comments
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