{"id":25586,"date":"2010-09-06T11:06:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T19:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2010-09-08T22:53:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:53:49","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-monday-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/06\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-monday-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Labor Day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/uncategorized\/prices-first-equation\">Price\u2019s First Equation<\/a>. An in-depth review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Price_equation\">Price Equation<\/a>. First installment of several.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2010-09\/uol-dfp090310.php\">DNA fingerprinting pioneer discovers role of key genetic catalyst for human diversity<\/a>. The strange behavior of <em>PRDM9<\/em> could be thought of as a factor in the second term of the Price Equation.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6201\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/05\/world\/asia\/05uighur.html\">Resentment Simmers in Western Chinese Region<\/a>.  \u201cIt used to be that state-owned enterprises had Han-only hiring policies, but these days they are more subtle,\u201d said Ilham Tohti, a Uighur economist who studies the job market in Xinjiang. \u201cThey reject you after you\u2019ve gone in for the interview and <strong>they\u2019ve seen your face.\u201d<\/strong> This indicates that straightforward racism is a problem here. Many Uighurs, including Ilham Tohti, do not have a conventional <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AIlham_Tohti.jpg\">East Asian appearance<\/a>. One way to check for racism is to note if Hui are treated any differently. Though Muslim, Hui don&#8217;t look much different from the Han (after generations of intermarriage the Hui are genetically no different than the Han of their region, though there is a residual proportion of West and Central Asian genes within them).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/04\/science\/space\/04mars.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged<\/a>. Sometimes physical scientists need to chill out in the aspersions they cast toward social scientists. It&#8217;s kind of bizarre that people are still arguing about the interpretation of these results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/06\/business\/economy\/06housing.html?pagewanted=print\">Housing Woes Bring New Cry: Let Market Fall<\/a>. This is a intergenerational issue. Because of that I&#8217;d bet that the government won&#8217;t allow &#8220;shock therapy.&#8221; Politicians&#8217; first rule: don&#8217;t piss off old people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Labor Day!<br \/>\nPrice\u2019s First Equation. An in-depth review of the Price Equation. First installment of several.<br \/>\nDNA fingerprinting pioneer discovers role of key genetic catalyst for human diversity. The strange behavior of PRDM9 could be thought of as a factor in the second term of the Price Equation.<\/p>\n<p>Resentment Simmers in Western Chinese Region.  \u201cIt used [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586","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=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25862,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions\/25862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}