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Change is in the air  permlink

Category: Culture

G.M. to Seek Bankruptcy and a New Start: It also places the government in uncharted territory as a business owner, as it takes a 60 percent ownership stake in the company during its restructuring. The commanding heights are back. We're...

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The rise of empirical economics  permlink

Category: Culture

In the wake of my post on Predictably Irrational, The Last Temptation of Risk: THE GREAT Credit Crisis has cast into doubt much of what we thought we knew about economics. We thought that monetary policy had tamed the business...

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Bernie, the man & the madness  permlink

Category: History

Fortune has a massive profile of Bernie Madoff's life, career and scam. Some new material too....

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How religious are Albanian and Bosnian Muslims?  permlink

Category: Culture

There are some really weird comments about Albania below. Part of these confusions have to do with ambiguities as to the religious identity of Albania, traditionally majority Muslim, but after decades of Communism very secular. What exactly are the religious...

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Inbreeding & the downfall of the Spanish Hapsburgs  permlink

Category: Genetics

The Hapsburgs are one of those royal families who are relatively well known, and in the minds of the public are to a great extent the emblems of the downsides of inbreeding. To painting to the left is of Charles...

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Decline in inbreeding over time  permlink

Category: Genetics

Genetic Future points to a new paper which suggests that inbreeding is declining over time. Their methodology involved surveying different age cohorts and noting the decreased levels of homozygosity among the youth. Dienekes points out that the use of living...

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America, the way we are  permlink

Category: History

Most Americans are not aware that the debtor status of our nation is not particularly novel; we have been a debtor nation for most of our history. This fact serves as one of the major linchipins in Eric Rauchway's Blessed...

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Similarities & differences: American Indians & Real Indians  permlink

Category: History

After reading American Colonies: The Settling of North America, I was struck by the incredible similarities in British modus operandi in North America and India the 17th and 18th centuries. These two imperial domains seem very different, but recall that...

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The Lost White Civilization of China  permlink

Category: History

The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn't Care to Listen To: An exhibit on the first floor of the museum here gives the government's unambiguous take on the history of this border region: "Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of...

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Europe is white, that's why they won't have a Barack Obama soon  permlink

Category: History

The New York Times has a piece up, After Breakthrough, Europe Looks in Mirror, which quotes people who wonder when Europe will have its own colored head of state. Let's ignore for a moment that the longest serving Prime Minister...

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