Kevin Drum provides a nice summary of Friday's long posting about weighting.
Cosma Shalizi tells us that his wife's boss is on the NAS Panel on firearms. Right now I'm thinking of a line of clothing emblazoned with: "I got smeared by Glenn Reynolds and all I got was this lousy t shirt". Someone who got more than that is Steve Levitt, who has just been awarded the John Bates Clark medal.
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There are a few things that the French love, but all Americans--liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats--love to hate. In particular, I'm thinking of
1. Mimes
2. Jerry Lewis
3. Postmodern philosophy
I mentioned before Cosma Shalizi's excellent discussion of heritability; add to that now his summary of g.
I'm not sure whether it was prompted by James Watson's little outburst (for which he has apologized "unreservedly") o