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February 28, 2009
Category: Culture
There are nearly 500 complete responses to the survey from last week. Here's a CSV file of the results. Below the fold are the frequencies as well as N's. I might report some trends in the data, but a lot...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:54 PM • 30 Comments •
You can watch me talk to Greg Cochran about his book The 10,000 Year Explosion on bloggingheads.tv this weekend.... There's something interesting about the front page of bloggingheads.tv right now....
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:45 AM • 9 Comments •
February 27, 2009
Category: Culture
Matt Yglesias says: There's no denying that this is a pretty amusing poster. Still, it reminds me that I think the film engaged in a bit of revisionism when it portrayed the Autobots as humanoid-shaped robots capable of change into...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:49 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Genetics
Polish Genetics & Anthropology points out that the Estonian Genetics Project is reporting: The more than 25,000 blood samples collected already make it possible to conduct various background studies. For example, comparing the genetic data of Estonians with other European...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:09 AM • 14 Comments •
February 26, 2009
Category: Evolution
I just got pointed to Confronting Evolution's Racists Roots via my RSS. This is a common tactic. And it might work for unsophisticated people on the margins. Just like a tract like "Christianity's racist past" would also sell. Or, "Socialism's...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:12 PM • 11 Comments •
February 25, 2009
Category: Biology
So says John Hawks in Slate....
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:25 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Culture
How bank bonuses let us all down: ...Because banking is not about true risks but perceived volatility of returns: you earn a stream of steady bonuses for seven or eight years, then when the losses take place, you are not...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:57 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Genetics
A few days ago I mentioned that the story about a bumper crop of twins in a German town in southern Brazil was notable because of the elevated frequency of identical, not fraternal, twins. A reader points out that that...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:38 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Culture
Mark Chu-Carroll has an excellent smack-down, Financial Morons, and Quadratics vs. Linears. Mark notes: There's one minor problem with that argument: it doesn't work. A couple of weeks ago, some idiot at JP Morgan circulated a chart that was supposed...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:26 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Blog
Just a heads up, the old "AlphaPsy" weblog is now Cognition & Culture. One of the contributors is Dan Sperber, who I interviewed a few years ago....
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:12 AM • 0 Comments •
