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Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Category: Culture
Copenhagen dreaming: In defense of the scientific method: As the Copenhagen conference on the successor to the Kyoto Protocol draws near, I want to lay some meta-thoughts out about the scientific method which I think are important, as a context...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:41 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science
Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK. H/T Anthropology.net...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:21 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Space
Seed's Mr. Space Lee Billings has an interesting piece, The Long Shot: "If planets are found around Alpha Centauri, it's very clear to me what will happen," Marcy said. "NASA will immediately convene a committee of its most thoughtful space...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:38 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Science
The rise in eczema, or asthma, or the general return of infectious disease, reminds one that though we live in a post-Malthusian Age generally, many of the truths of earlier times hold. While with physical technology we can rest assured...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:47 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Science
The GSS has a variable, ODDS1, which represents the question: Now, think about this situation. A doctor tells a couple that their genetic makeup means that they've got one in four chances of having a child with an inherited illness....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:23 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Science
A few years ago I pointed to a paper which surveyed variation in health across the United States as a function of geography. Today Andrew Gelman points to a new map put out by the heath insurance industry. I've placed...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:37 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Science
Association Between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: The median serum 25(OH)D level was 29 ng/mL...and 19%...of participants reported a recent URTI [recent respiratory tract infections]. Recent URTI...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:44 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Science
Seed Magazine has a nice review of the brewing controversy over shoddy statistical methods in the field of fMRI. To some extent science is politics, this is a sexy and appealing field. A friend of mine who is a psychologist...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:19 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Science
Chad is complaining that The Best American Science Writing 2008 is too focused on biomedical science. He finds it especially lame that there's no physics when this was the year of the LHC. Here's what I found in the contents.......
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:08 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Science
Recently I've been having an on-and-off discussion with a friend about the bioethical implications of neo-eugenics. I brought up one particular issue as a thought experiment: how about selective abortion of dark-skinned fetuses among South Asians? The light and dark...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:36 AM • 10 Comments •
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