Month: January 2010
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On signals & design
Somehow SR’s email address was added to Newsmax’s mailing list for ad buys. The pitch is that one will reach affluent readers. But they undermine their message by formatting their HTML emails in a garish 1997 Frontpage-generated style. I thought they were being ironic, but I think they’re sincere. Share/Save
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The Royal Society on In Our Time
In Our Time has several episodes up on The Royal Society. You can listen online at the link, but I’d recommend that you just subscribe on iTunes to IOT.
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The geographical distribution of autism in California
Geographic distribution of autism in California: a retrospective birth cohort analysis:Prenatal environmental exposures are among the risk factors being explored for associations with autism. We applied a new procedure combining multiple scan cluster d…
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Random acts of ill-health
Stochastic epigenetic variation as a driving force of development, evolutionary adaptation, and disease:Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory is based on exquisite selection of phenotypes caused by small genetic variations, which is the basis of quantitati…
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We are a social animal
Occasionally we get emails like this: Up until now I thought I was the rarest of all ducks. A conservative atheist. I read Heather MacDonald’s piece in the Wall Street Journal today and was pleased to find I am not alone. I would love to know more about the organization. Yours truly, [name omitted] One…
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Singularity Institute Research Challenge
The Singularity Institute is having a fundraising drive right now. Here are the details:…the Singularity Institute has launched a new challenge campaign. The sponsors, Edwin Evans, Rolf Nelson, Henrik Jonsson, Jason Joachim, and Robert Lecnik, have …
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The “Jews” of Afghanistan?
Hazaras Hustle to Head of the Class in Afghanistan: For much of this country’s history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite minority sidelined for generations, and in some instances massacred, by Pash…
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PRDM9 and the evolution of recombination hotspots
This week in Science, three papers report that the product of the gene PRDM9 is an important determinant of where recombination occurs in the genome during meiosis. Though this may sound like something of an esoteric discovery, it’s actually pretty rem…
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Nicholas Wade & Razib Khan on bloggingheads.tv
Here. Or embedded: We talk about The Faith Instinct. Share/Save
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Nicholas Wade & Razib Khan on bloggingheads.tv
Here. Or embedded:We talk about The Faith Instinct.
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Estimating black-white racial tension from 1850 to present
As a New Year’s gift, here is a free copy of an entry I put up on my data blog (details on that here). It’s a quantitative look at the history of race and culture in America, together with qualitative examples that illustrate the story that the numbers…