{"id":27929,"date":"2010-09-27T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2010-09-28T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T19:54:29","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-monday-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/27\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-monday-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it sure feels like summer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/eva\/2010\/09\/27\/no-one-cares-about-your-blog-part-2\">No one cares about your blog (part 2)<\/a>. &#8220;The thing is &#8211; it&#8217;s just writing, isn&#8217;t it? Talking extensively about science blogging is like having intense discourses about what you can do with pen and paper. &#8220;Should we staple all our pieces of paper together, or only the ones on which we wrote about our work?&#8230;&#8221; This is a generalized issue. <b>Talking<\/b> about blogging is a major topic on blogs, and is bound to get discussion going. On the other hand, when I post data or reviews of paper there&#8217;s less engagement of the subject, though there are a fair number of tweets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4815\">Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s poison<\/a>. Heather Mac Donald rips into Dinesh D&#8217;Souza. Many on the Right don&#8217;t pay much attention to D&#8217;Souza because of his penchant for provocation <b>and<\/b> sloppiness. I take Heather&#8217;s main point to be that operationally Barack Hussein Obama is a standard issue liberal Democratic politician. Quantum mechanics is&#8217;t necessary when Newtonian mechanics will do.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6768\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosgenetics.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1001139?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+plosgenetics\/NewArticles+(Ambra+-+Genetics+New+Articles)\">Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits and Accuracy of Genomic Prediction: Coat Colour, Milk-Fat Percentage, and Type in Holstein Cattle as Contrasting Model Traits<\/a>. &#8221; We also show that the accuracy of predicting genetic values is higher for traits with a proportion of large effects (proportion black and fat percentage) than for a trait with no loci of large effect (overall type), provided the method of analysis takes advantage of the distribution of loci effects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/23\/the-world-is-fat\/\">The World Is Fat<\/a>. Wow, Mexico finally got fatter than the USA! 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