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November 30, 2008
Category: Genetics
A few years ago I blogged about prosopagnosia, "face blindness." Nature Neuroscience now has a new paper finding some correlates with brain architecture, Reduced structural connectivity in ventral visual cortex in congenital prosopagnosia: Using diffusion tensor imaging and tractography, we...
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Category: Science
FuturePundit points me to a research paper, Impact of a new national screening policy for Down's syndrome in Denmark: population based cohort study: Results The number of infants born with Down's syndrome decreased from 55-65 per year during 2000-4 to...
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Category: Genetics
I was waiting for Dan MacArthur to comment on the "ACTN3 sports gene" story because I knew he had done research on this very locus. As usual, he's rather diplomatic, with a post titled The ACTN3 sports gene test: what...
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November 25, 2008
Category: Science
If the title piques your interest, check out a new ScienceBlog of that name. The contributors are familiar faces.......
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Category: Culture
Since the Right is roiling with faction, I thought I'd point you to a new weblog, Secular Right. No need to explain what it's about, the title says it all. John Derbyshire recounts an interesting experience at the H. L....
Posted by Razib at 10:29 AM • 5 Comments •
November 24, 2008
Category: Evolution
An editorial in The New York Times, Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth?: No one is quite sure why the woolly mammoths died out toward the end of the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago. Theories include warmer temperatures that...
Posted by Razib at 12:24 AM • 17 Comments •
November 23, 2008
Category: Culture
Andrew Gelman has commented on his interview performance.......
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November 22, 2008
Category: History
After reading American Colonies: The Settling of North America, I was struck by the incredible similarities in British modus operandi in North America and India the 17th and 18th centuries. These two imperial domains seem very different, but recall that...
Posted by Razib at 1:46 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Blog
The Elf pointed me to Typealyzer where it supposedly analyzes the personality of the weblog. Well, this blog is.......
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November 21, 2008
Category: Culture
In my post yesterday where I compared Catholics & Protestants in New England with Southerners in the McCain Belt, I was struck on the evolution question that in New England Protestants exhibited much more variance than Catholics. More Protestants rejected...
Posted by Razib at 9:24 PM • 5 Comments •
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