January 31, 2009
5-part interview with Greg Cochran permlink
Category: Evolution
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, is now available from Amazon & fine local bookstores. Over at 2 Blowhards one of the authors Greg Cochran has done a 5-part interview: part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5....
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Posted by Razib at 4:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Which netbooks are good? permlink
Category: Technology
I'm thinking of getting a netbook. Any recommendations/experiences?...
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Posted by Razib at 4:47 AM • 29 Comments •
Pajamas Media goes down.... permlink
Category: Blog
Well, it isn't just the old media that's having issues. A few days ago Culture11 folded. Now it looks like Pajamas Media network is shutting down (they're going to go into vlogging fulltime?). I got a few links from PM...
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Posted by Razib at 1:59 AM • 7 Comments •
January 30, 2009
Interracial sex or Mendelian segregation? permlink
Category: Genetics
Over at The Root Keith Adkins has a post, Sandra Laing: Born Black with White Parents: I'm no geneticist or biologist, but it looks like Sandra is a product of an black South African and maybe a white Afrikaneer. I'm...
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Posted by Razib at 4:15 PM • 9 Comments •
By other means necessary? permlink
Category: Evolution
My friend Aziz Poonawalla has a post up, is evolution sufficient? No, it's not the standard Creationist cant: The implication of such rapid evolution is that we should actually notice it on human timescales. And that there is actually is...
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January 29, 2009
Australian Aboriginal morbidity & mortality permlink
Category: Genetics
A few years ago PLoS Medicine published Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States. The results were: -- Asian-Americans, per capita income of $21,566, life expectancy of 84.9 years. -- Northland low-income rural...
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Posted by Razib at 4:09 PM • 12 Comments •
Has it awakened? permlink
Category: Science
Mars Rover Disoriented Somewhat After Glitch: More strangely, the Spirit had no memory of what it had done for that part of Sol 1800. The rover did not record actions, as it otherwise always does, to the part of its...
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Posted by Razib at 1:59 AM • 4 Comments •
January 28, 2009
Navigenics, a joke? permlink
Category: Genetics
Read Genetic Future on Navigenics crappy new product. Better yet, link to the post yourself to crank up the google ranking, you're doing potential consumers a service....
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Category: Culture
There are now some articles which are detailing the other Ponzi schemes which are coming out in the wake of l'affaire Madoff. One thing that is notable: the next biggest scam is an order of magnitude less significant. That is,...
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Posted by Razib at 5:07 PM • 12 Comments •
MAOA & aggression permlink
Category: Genetics
Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation: Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) has earned the nickname "warrior gene" because it has been linked to aggression in observational and survey-based studies. However, no controlled experimental studies have tested...
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