{"id":14216,"date":"2010-06-21T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2010-06-21T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:51:42","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/21\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/06\/21\/i-won-the-3-quarks-daily-science-prize-top-quark-heh\/\">I won the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize. \u2018Top quark\u2019. Heh.<\/a> &#8220;I&#8221; = Ed Yong. &#8216;nuf said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dienekes.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/brown-eyed-men-perceived-to-be-more.html\">Brown-eyed men perceived to be more dominant<\/a>. Dienekes offers up a more banal explanation, that the disjunction between blue vs. brown-eyed males in dominance perception has to do with a correlation that&#8217;s a holdover from past population differences which are being eliminated through admixture. Plausible enough to me, excepting that I do wonder at models which presume that continental populations were ever so isolated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/06\/21\/chimpanzees-murder-for-land\/\">Chimpanzees murder for land<\/a>. In biology Malthus was right. Intrapspecific competition is the norm quite often because of reproduction up to the carrying capacity. This is why I think <a href=\"http:\/\/andromeda.rutgers.edu\/~socant\/brian.htm\">Brian Ferguson&#8217;s<\/a> idea that war is a product of agriculture is highly naive; hunter-gatherers were up at their carrying capacity as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/crimelaw\/66468\/?loc=interstitialskip\">Bernie Madoff, Free at Last<\/a>. Celebrity sociopath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2257655\/?from=rss\">If it&#8217;s OK to reject blood from gay men, what about blacks?<\/a> Will Saletan takes things to their logical conclusion to undermine the premise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize. \u2018Top quark\u2019. Heh. &#8220;I&#8221; = Ed Yong. &#8216;nuf said.<br \/>\nBrown-eyed men perceived to be more dominant. Dienekes offers up a more banal explanation, that the disjunction between blue vs. brown-eyed males in dominance perception has to do with a correlation that&#8217;s a holdover from past population differences which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14281,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216\/revisions\/14281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}