Gene Expression
Archives for September, 2009
How’d that acquisition work out?
Posted by Razib Khan on September 30, 2009 Lewis Is Said to Be Leaving Bank of America. Years ago I’d read that there was some social science which suggested that M&As were encouraged by the incentive structure of CEO careers; that is, the upside for a CEO in relation to a successful M&A are higher than for their firm. As for the downsides,…
Stephen Hawking steps down
Posted by Razib Khan on September 30, 2009 Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK. H/T Anthropology.net
The root of all anti-evolutionism
Posted by Razib Khan on September 29, 2009 The Religious Landscape Survey has a lot of data various denominations. Recently I noticed something weird about Mormons; they are very anti-evolution, as well as anti-universalist in their views on salvation, according to this survey. These are notable views because Mormons don’t have well established attitudes on evolution from on high (which is why Mitt…
One more day to vote for GrrlScientist
Posted by Razib Khan on September 29, 2009 Read about it here
Creation finds distributor
Posted by Razib Khan on September 29, 2009 I missed this from last week, Newmarket picks up Jon Amiel’s ‘Creation’.
Religion & cognitive neuroscience
Posted by Razib Khan on September 29, 2009 Neuroanatomical Variability of Religiosity: We hypothesized that religiosity, a set of traits variably expressed in the population, is modulated by neuroanatomical variability. We tested this idea by determining whether aspects of religiosity were predicted by variability in regional cortical volume. We performed structural magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in 40 healthy adult participants who…
Ag subsidies + ag science = :-(
Posted by Razib Khan on September 29, 2009 From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit: Three years ago, a technological breakthrough gave dairy farmers the chance to bend a basic rule of nature: no longer would their cows have to give birth to equal numbers of female and male offspring. Instead, using a high-technology method to sort the sperm of dairy bulls,…
The bleeding of American Catholicism
Posted by Razib Khan on September 29, 2009 I remember back in the early 1990s that there was some talk about the United States going from a plural majority Protestant nations, to a Roman Catholic one at some point in the early 21st century. This in itself wouldn’t be that big of a deal today, Canada already has more Catholics than Protestants (44%…
Crazy genetic mutant, alien….
Posted by Razib Khan on September 28, 2009 Darren Naish has the full story. In a bygone age without scientists who…know stuff, these sorts of finds would become the germ of myth. As it is we cobble together a bunch of banal facts and likelihoods into something far less exciting, but more likely to b a true description of reality.
The adventure of the Cohen Modal Haplotype
Posted by Razib Khan on September 28, 2009 The past 10 years have seen a lot of ups & downs in the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) hypothesis, which suggests some veracity to the Biblical narrative whereby the priestly caste status of the Jewish people is passed down patrilineally from Aaron, the brother of Moses. But could there be multiple Aarons? Possibly. Extended Y…