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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
June 30, 2009
Category: Culture
A little under 10% of South Africa's population are Cape Coloureds. They speak Afrikaans and generally worship in Reformed Christian churches, but exhibit discernible non-European ancestry, in particular African ancestry. In the United States anyone who manifests African ancestry is...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Culture
A friend of mine has a new weblog, Low Carb Art and Science, which some of you might be interested in (or not). I do think it is ironic since this is an individual who presumably is in favor of...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:46 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Blog
A new version of FireFox is coming out today. You can already test drive the latest pre-release already. I've been using Chrome since last year for 95% of my browsing needs because of the speed. I miss plugins, and there...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:49 AM • 7 Comments •
June 29, 2009
Category: Culture
Arnold Kling highlights this section from a Scientific American article, The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts: But behavioral economics experiments routinely show that despite similar outcomes, people (and other primates) hate a loss more than they desire a gain,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Culture
I don't post much on contemporary politics, mostly because I don't have much value-add, but also because so much of it from the blogosphere is simply a critique of the mainstream press. In fact I think the mainstream press is...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:32 AM • 5 Comments •
June 28, 2009
Why should government welfare mean less religion?: This was a question that Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde tackled by in 2004. They analysed the data from a range of countries, and found that the greater proportion of GDP that was...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:14 AM • 13 Comments •
June 26, 2009
Category: Genetics
Richard Wrangham has done a podcast over at World Science (see my review of Catching Fire). You can ask questions in the forum, Wrangham will be participating all week....
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:27 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Blog
She's trying to leave New York for Antarctica. What you have to do to make it happen is vote for her essay....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:46 AM • 1 Comments •
June 25, 2009
Category: Culture
I was out and about doing errands when a friend called me to tell me that Michael Jackson had died. My first reaction was to utter an expletive. I wasn't sad, I didn't think this was a false report. I...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:59 PM • 14 Comments •
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