Culture:
I don't get political punditry permlink
Category: Culture
Palin's Move Shocks G.O.P. and Leaves Future Unclear: Many Republican strategists have argued that it would be difficult for someone to run for governor in 2010 and turn around immediately, while running a state, and run for president in 2012....
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Posted by Razib at 11:01 AM • 3 Comments •
US Job Losses in a historical context permlink
Category: Culture
Excellent chart via Calculated Risk. It looks like we're in a whole different territory of anti-superlatives in terms of length & depth in regards to the employment drought.......
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Posted by Razib at 11:46 PM • 1 Comments •
The evolution of blogging permlink
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Lots of chatter about The Blogosphere 2.0, a post which has 7 bullet points: - The A-List Doesn't Matter Anymore - It's all about niche blogs - Blogger Burn Out - Reader burn out - MSM yawns - Huffington Post....
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Posted by Razib at 7:54 PM • 2 Comments •
The genetics of the descendants of the Garamantes permlink
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First Genetic Insight into Libyan Tuaregs: A Maternal Perspective: The Tuaregs are a semi-nomadic pastoralist people of northwest Africa. Their origins are still a matter of debate due to the scarcity of genetic and historical data. Here we report the...
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Posted by Razib at 6:12 PM • 0 Comments •
The evolution of God permlink
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Nicholas Wade is moderately skeptical of Robert Wright's new book, The Evolution of God: Robert Wright's new book, "The Evolution of God," has a provocative title. But it's a disappointment from the Darwinian perspective. He doesn't mean real evolution, just...
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Posted by Razib at 12:04 PM • 2 Comments •
Who are the Cape Coloureds of South Africa? permlink
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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...
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Posted by Razib at 8:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Low carb diet weblog permlink
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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...
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Posted by Razib at 3:46 AM • 3 Comments •
Neurotypicals are irrational beasts permlink
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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,...
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Posted by Razib at 9:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Dana Milbank vs. Nico Pitney permlink
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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...
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Posted by Razib at 8:32 AM • 4 Comments •
Michael Jackson: the king is dead permlink
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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...
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Posted by Razib at 8:59 PM • 14 Comments •