Stephen Hawking steps down permlink
Category: Science
Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK. H/T Anthropology.net...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:21 PM • 6 Comments •
Gene Expression
Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices
Search
Recent Comments
- Paul Jones on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- Jason Malloy on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- John Emerson on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- razib on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- Nador on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- yann on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- Dredd on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- John Emerson on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- Oran Kelley on What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- Ben Steele on Moral dimensions of political tribes
Archives
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
Categories
- Anthroplogy
- Ask a ScienceBlogger
- Biology
- Blog
- Cognitive Science
- Culture
- Economics
- Environment
- History
- International Affairs
- Medicine
- Politics
- Psychology
- Religion
- Science
- Space
- Technology
- Transhumanism
- philosophy
Q & A
- Parag Khanna
- James Flynn
- Jon Entine
- Gregory Clark
- György Buzsáki
- Heather Mac Donald
- Bruce Lahn
- A.W.F. Edwards
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- Joseph LeDoux
- Matthew Stewart
- Charles Murray
- Steven Pinker
- James F. Crow
- Adam K. Webb
- Justin L. Barrett
- David Haig
- Judith Rich Harris
- Ken Miller
- Dan Sperber
- Warren Treadgold
- Armand M. Leroi
- John Derbyshire
Books
- Principles of Population Genetics
- Genetics of Populations
- Molecular Evolution
- Quantitative Genetics
- Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
- Evolutionary Genetics
- Evolution
- Molecular Markers, Natural History, and Evolution
- The Genetics of Human Populations
- Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits
- Epistasis and Evolutionary Process
- Evolutionary Human Genetics
- Biometry
- Mathematical Models in Biology
- Speciation
- Evolutionary Genetics: Case Studies and Concepts
- Narrow Roads of Gene Land 1
- Narrow Roads of Gene Land 2
- Narrow Roads of Gene Land 3
- Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution
- The History and Geography of Human Genes
- Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory
- Population Genetics, Molecular Evolution, and the Neutral Theory
- Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
- Evolution and the Genetics of Populations
- Genetics and Origins of Species
- Tempo and Mode in Evolution
- Causes of Evolution
- Evolution
- The Great Human Diasporas
- Bones, Stones and Molecules
- Natural Selection and Social Theory
- Journey of Man
- Mapping Human History
- The Seven Daughters of Eve
- Evolution for Everyone
- Why Sex Matters
- Mother Nature
- Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
- Genome
- R.A. Fisher, the Life of a Scientist
- Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology
- Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics
- A Reason for Everything
- The Ancestor's Tale
- Dragon Bone Hill
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- The Selfish Gene
- Adaptation and Natural Selection
- Nature via Nurture
- The Symbolic Species
- The Imitation Factor
- The Red Queen
- Out of Thin Air
- Mutants
- Evolutionary Dynamics
- The Origin of Species
- The Descent of Man
- Age of Abundance
- The Darwin Wars
- The Evolutionists
- The Creationists
- Of Moths and Men The Language Instinct
- How We Decide
- Predictably Irrational
- The Black Swan
- Fooled By Randomness
- Descartes' Baby
- Religion Explained
- In Gods We Trust
- Darwin's Cathedral
- A Theory of Religion
- The Meme Machine
- Synaptic Self
- The Mating Mind
- A Separate Creation
- The Number Sense
- The 10,000 Year Explosion
- The Math Gene
- Explaining Culture
- Origin and Evolution of Cultures
- Dawn of Human Culture
- The Origins of Virtue
- Prehistory of the Mind
- The Nurture Assumption
- The Moral Animal
- Born That Way
- No Two Alike
- Sociobiology
- Survival of the Prettiest
- The Blank Slate
- The g Factor
- The Origin Of The Mind
- Unto Others
- Defenders of the Truth
- The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
- Before the Dawn
- Behavioral Genetics in the Postgenomic Era
- The Essential Difference
- Geography of Thought
- The Classical World
- The Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Fall of Rome
- History of Rome
- How Rome Fell
- The Making of a Christian Aristoracy
- The Rise of Western Christendom
- Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
- A History of the Byzantine State and Society
- Europe After Rome
- The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
- The Barbarian Conversion
- A History of Christianity
- God's War
- Infidels
- Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
- The Sacred Chain
- Divided by the Faith
- Europe
- The Reformation
- Pursuit of Glory
- Albion's Seed
- 1848
- Postwar
- From Plato to Nato
- China: A New History
- China in World History
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Children of the Revolution
- When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World
- The Great Arab Conquests
- After Tamerlane
- A History of Iran
- The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- A World History
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Human Web
- Plagues and Peoples
- 1491
- A Concise Economic History of the World
- Power and Plenty
- A Splendid Exchange
- Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD
- Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
- A Farewell to Alms
- The Ascent of Money
- The Great Divergence
- Clash of Extremes
- War and Peace and War
- Historical Dynamics
- The Age of Lincoln
- The Great Upheaval
- What Hath God Wrought
- Freedom Just Around the Corner
- Throes of Democracy
- Grand New Party
- A Beautiful Math
- When Genius Failed
- Catholicism and Freedom
- American Judaism
Blogroll
- GNXP Classic
-
- Razib Khan
- Razib at Comment is Free
- OneSTDV
- Beta Revolution
- Your Religion Is False
- Arikia Millikan
- Upturned Earth
- Hyena Con
- Mark Wethman
- Secular Right
- Talk Islam
- Stuff Scientists Like
- Dan MacArthur
- Chet Snicker
- Matt
- John Hawks
- The American Scene
- Dienekes
- Hsien-Hsien Lei
- Ruchira Paul
- Steve Sailer
- Jason Soon
- Michael & co.
- John Emerson
- Sepia Mutiny
- Agnostic
Recent Posts
- What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
- Katz
- Best paper title I've seen in a while
- To crush your enemies, and steal their cattle for your sons!
- William Gunn is looking for another job
- Against multiculturalism (multireligionism)
- Andrew Gelman's "Applied Statistics"
- Mosque offended by alcohol & roast pig...in New York City
- Bernie Madoff only squandered $21 billion
- Materialism leads to inequality
Space:
NOVA: Is there life on Mars? permlink
Category: Space
I notice that the NOVA documentary, Is there life on Mars?, is viewable online (from December 2008). Check it out....
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:28 AM • 0 Comments •
Who supports the space program? permlink
Category: Space
I just listened to a radio segment on public sentiments toward the Apollo space program expenditures in hindsight. The polling had a small N, 3 people in Los Angeles on the street. But it got me wondering: who supports the...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:25 PM • 7 Comments •
Hawaii, going long on space tourism permlink
Category: Environment
Hawaii Looks to Space Tourism to Aid Recession Woes: According to the Honolulu Advertiser, the state would start by spending up to a million dollars developing a spaceport. But Hawaii isn't alone: The state is already facing heady competition from...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:20 PM • 4 Comments •
Habitable planets & Alpha Centauri permlink
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 •
Mars Science Laboratory on schedule! permlink
Category: Space
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech I rarely post anything on space because I really don't know much more than the average reader of this weblog; no value-add from me. But yesterday I ran across an article which reported the financial overruns in...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:15 AM • 0 Comments •
Mercury permlink
Category: Space
Flyby of Mercury Answers Some Old Questions: Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the Sun, but it has water in some form. It has volcanoes. It appears to have an active magnetic field generated by a molten...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:17 AM • 1 Comments •
The Phoenix has landed permlink
Category: Space
As you probably know, the Phoenix has landed on Mars. No problems so far. I assume the best place to track the data as it comes back is the NASA mission page for Phoenix. Here are the mission goals: --Determine...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Stephen Hawking is not a dumb cripple permlink
Category: Space
I too defend space cadets, what is mankind without a dream? I remember back in the late 1980s a speech by Joseph P. Kennedy II as he stood on the floor of the house of representatives and asked his fellow...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:17 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Earth like planet detected? permlink
Category: Space
Since Chad Orzel hasn't posted on it, I figured I'd link to this story about a Nature letter which announces the discovery of a planet 5.5 times as massive as our own! This is pretty cool, I was a big...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
