Deep Thought

By tfk on May 28, 2009.

Justice Learned Hand was not Native American.

More like this

Dear My Senator, Not In My Back Yard

A letter Dear My Senator, Thank you very much for being one of the 90 senators who voted for Amendment 1133 to H.R. 2346. I have long felt, as I'm sure you do, that keeping terrorists out of my own backyard is of vital importance to the security of our Great nation (not to mention to the security…

A Question About Genetically Tracing One's Ancestry

Over at Pandagon, Pam's aunt had her ancestry traced using mitochondrial DNA ('mtDNA'). The results given to her aunt were that she is: 51% Sub-Saharan Africa (she didn't get any information as to country) 37% European (we have known ancestry in Ireland and England) 12% Native American (likely a…

Admixture, ancestry and its ascertainment among Puerto Ricans

Earlier this week I posted a link to new research on the genomics of Mexican populations and the impact of selective evolutionary pressures within the last 500 years. I also pointed to the fact that despite Argentina's self-conception as a European settler nation, a non-trivial Amerindian…

Mystery Birds: Pacific Golden-Plover, Pluvialis fulva, and American Golden-Plover, P. dominica

tags: Pacific Golden-Plover, Pluvialis fulva, American Golden-Plover, Pluvialis dominica, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Pacific Golden-Plover, Pluvialis fulva (left), and American Golden-Plover, Pluvialis dominica (right), photographed on Fir Island, Skagit County, Washington…

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

Science 2.0

Science Codex

More by this author

ID and the age of the earth

April 12, 2013

Disco. 'tute "research" director Casey Luskin is sad. Congressional Quarterly wrote about creationism and didn't say nice things about "intelligent design" creationism. Casey insists that ID shouldn't be lumped in with young earth creationism or geocentrism, asserting: the vast majority of leaders…

Polls and the line between truth and conspiracy theory

April 5, 2013

In the poll on conspiracy theories I mentioned a few days ago, I mostly focused on the item about vaccines, mentioning in passing the fact that Democrats (and liberals) bought into far fewer conspiracy theories than Republicans (or conservatives). I didn't point out that, of the "conspiracy…

Vaccines and the Republican War on Science

April 3, 2013

Ever since Chris Mooney's Republican War on Science was published in 2005, folks have been looking for a way to argue that Democrats are just as bad. The standard example for this counternarrative, one which Mooney even offered in his book, was vaccine denial – the claim that vaccines cause autism…

An evolution the GOP likes

April 2, 2013

"The president says that the jury's out on evolution. Here in New Jersey, we're counting on it." –Bruce Springsteen, May 21, 2005 "Folks in Dover [PA] aren't sure about evolution. Here in New Jersey, we're counting on it." –Bruce Springsteen, August, 2005 "This issue [marriage equality] is in a…

Social movements and science denial

April 1, 2013

The University of Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Social Movements is hosting a dialogue on science and politics, and I'm rather pleased with my contribution: "Will Climate Change Denial Inherit the Wind?" Do check out the other essays in the dialogue, especially Jeffrey Guhin's discussion of…