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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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)....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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