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October 31, 2009
Category: Culture
Andrew Gelman has started a new blog at ScienceBlogs, Applied Statistics. Someone should design him a header, perhaps a fancified Bayes' theorem?...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:01 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Culture
Spotted Piglet Hiccups: Boozy Breslin Clashes With Mosque: The much-hyped, soon-to-open Breslin restaurant, situated in the 12-story Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th, is giving members of the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street some agita. "Five times a day,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:58 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Culture
In a piece that outlines SEC follies: In fact, Mr. Madoff said in the jailhouse interview that, on two occasions, he was certain it was only a matter of days or even hours before he would be caught. The first...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:24 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies: Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:13 PM • 1 Comments •
October 30, 2009
Category: Anthroplogy
Ruchira Paul has a post up, "Religious, superstitious, nonsense" and other harsh words. The point at issue is the fact that a teacher who expressed anti-Creationist views in harsh tones was sued. Ruchira asks somewhat rhetorically as to the sort...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:51 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Anthroplogy
I've discussed menopause as an adaptation and the grandmother effect before. I was also pleased to see the responses of Larry Moran's readers when he presented his standard anti-adaptationist line of argument. I don't want to retread familiar ground here,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:02 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Culture
In the wikipedia entry for "ballad" there's the image with caption to the left. Am I weird for finding that just really, really, funny? I start having these weird flashbacks to lots of pink hair,screaming weirdos, and Every Rose Has...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:57 AM • 2 Comments •
October 29, 2009
Category: Evolution
Carl Zimmer points me an article about a former anthropologist who has some weird ideas about the origin of man: Since his resignation from the university in 1990, however, Horn has changed his tune. Once a staunch Darwinist and tenured...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:22 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Genetics
The Spittoon points to a new paper, Drawing the history of the Hutterite population on a genetic landscape: inference from Y-chromosome and mtDNA genotypes, which I've been meaning to look at more closely. Unlike some attempts to use genetics to...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:15 AM • 4 Comments •
