Month: July 2017
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SLC24A5 is very important, but we don’t know why
The golden of pigmentation genetics started in 2005 with SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in zebrafish and humans. Prior to that pigmentation genetics was really to a great extent coat color genetics, done in mice and other organisms which have a lot of pelage variation. Of course there was work on humans, mostly…
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Rome fell fast, and so did we
The fall of Rome has obviously been a topic of much interest and discussion. It is, after all, a conversation about the fall of civilization as we knew it. If you read my blog you are probably aware that I lean toward a thesis of genuine and rapid fall. One of the most revelatory books…
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Open Thread, 7/3/2017
Reading The Enigma of Reason. Pretty good so far. Not incredibly surprising to me so far. To be clear, their argument is somewhat orthogonal to the whole ‘rationality’ debate you may be familiar with from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work (e.g., see Heuristics and Biases). One of the major problems in analysis is that…
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How much bigger Americans are in two generations
Average American Size 2015 Men Women Height 69.2 inches (175.8 cm) 63.7 inches (161.8 cm) Weight 195.7 lbs (88.8 kg) 168.5 lbs (76.4 kg) Waist 40 inches (101.5 cm) 38.1 (96.9 cm) Average American Size 1960 Men Women Height 68 inches (173 cm) 63 inches (160 cm) Weight 166.3…