Tiger mom for some, not for others
In a rumination on the “Tiger mom” phenomenon, Andrew Gelman suggests:
…Back when I taught at Berkeley and it was considered the #1 statistics department, a lot of my tenured colleagues seemed to have the attitude that their highest a…
Swedes not so homogeneous?
Credit: David Shankbone
The more and more I see fine-scale genomic analyses of population structure across the world the more and more I believe that the “stylized” models which were in vogue in the early 2000s which explained how the worl…
Personal genomics around the web
Just some pointers. Dr. Daniel MacArthur has put up a guest post where I outline my own experience with personal genomics. Cool times that we live in. Also, Zack Ajmal has started posting higher K’s of HAP participants. He’s now in the second batch. My parents will be in the third. Lots of Tamils and […]
My genetic odyssey
I have a guest post at Genomes Unzipped, summarizing what I’ve found via ancestry analysis over the past 6 months with the results from 23andMe. It is in many ways a brief overview of the detailed posts which you’ve see in this space.
Counting beans the proper way
Apropos of several of my recent posts, The New York Times has an interesting article up, Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers. Basically it outlines the difficulty of enumerating different racial and ethnic groups for different purposes in a mor…
Moderates are dull, liberals are smarter, conservatives are middling
Long time reader Ian comments:
A comparison with “the American public” isn’t really appropriate – to even be in the pool where you’re thinking about an academic career, you need to have a college degree. And that population if memory serves, …
Inferring and visualizing patterns in genomic data
I’ve been playing around with ADMIXTURE and EIGENSOFT with the the HapMap data set along with a few friends & family merged into it. It is interesting to see how the intuitive inferences you make from ADMIXTURE bar plots differ somewhat from …
Why race will matter after we all get our full sequences
In my post “Health care costs and ancestry”, a commenter says:
“Race” is a concept that should have died with disco. I imagine it will soon be feasible for every patient to have their genome analysis included in their medical file and t…
Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History
Link to review: Jacob’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History.
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Link to review: God’s Contintent, Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis.
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis
Link to review: God’s Contintent, Christianity, Islam and Europe’s Religious Crisis.
The neo-Malthusian petro-kings
One of the major problems with natural scientists when they “project” into the future they often do not take into account the power of innovation to change the fundamental parameters of the game. I believe this was part of the issue at the …
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Link to review: Slow and diverse food.
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Link to review: Diplomacy among the aliens.
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East
Link to review: Diplomacy among the aliens.
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
Link to review: The Price of Altruism.
The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene
Link to review: The wisdom of Seinfeld.
The academy is liberal, deal!
A new article in The New York Times, Social Scientist Sees Bias Within, profiles Jonathan Haidt’s quest to get some political diversity within social psychology. This means my post Is the Academy liberal?, is getting some links again. The data wi…