{"id":15796,"date":"2010-07-02T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T22:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2010-07-02T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T22:26:24","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/02\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-friday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a good 4th for those who live in the States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnhawks.net\/weblog\/topics\/evolution\/recent\/tibet-altitude-2010.html\">Fast selection in high altitude, but how fast?<\/a> I&#8217;m not surprised that John Hawks has serious reservations about the population history of the model in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/07\/why-tibetans-breath-so-easy-up-high\/\">paper I reviewed below<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/primatediaries\/2010\/07\/epigenetics_and_the_importance.php?utm_source=selectfeed&#038;utm_medium=rss\">Epigenetics and the Importance of a Nurturing Society<\/a>. I don&#8217;t mind the normatively directed focus on this area of research so long as there&#8217;s some science squeezed out of it. I say normatively because people would really prefer a world where there was more elasticity in outcome, all things equal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/2et\/what_cost_for_irrationality\/\">What Cost for Irrationality?<\/a> The standard stuff with people messing up probabilities, though some people end up in jail because of that! Though if someone at <i>Less Wrong<\/i> posted on the beauty of irrationality in some cases, now that would be a comment thread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2006\/08\/01\/a-nation-of-neurotics-blame-the-puppet-masters\/\">A Nation of Neurotics? Blame the Puppet Masters?<\/a> Pathogens and how they might affect culture, again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/30\/us\/politics\/30bai.html\">Ethnic Distinctions, No Longer So Distinctive<\/a>. Belying headline I think the power of black African ancestry in American society is reinforced by the piece; no one would say that there&#8217;s any ambiguity in Barack Obama being non-white in the United States despite his 50% European ancestry. This includes Obama himself, who is generally low-key about his multiracial identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a good 4th for those who live in the States.<br \/>\nFast selection in high altitude, but how fast? I&#8217;m not surprised that John Hawks has serious reservations about the population history of the model in the paper I reviewed below.<br \/>\nEpigenetics and the Importance of a Nurturing Society. I don&#8217;t mind the normatively directed focus on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-culture","category-daily-data-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","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=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16309,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions\/16309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}