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Epigenome effort makes its mark<\/a>. “This week, the Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a US$170-million effort to identify and map those marks \u2014 known collectively as the human epigenome \u2014 begins its first comprehensive data release.”<\/p>\n

At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture<\/a>. The story of executives taking home millions while the ship goes down is very old-school. Mao ate well while millions starved and China as a nation-state was being economically eviscerated. The scale of the moral calamity differed by orders of magnitude, but I think the principal-agent problem is basically the same.<\/p>\n

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\nScience Knows Best<\/a>. ‘The most compelling strand in \u201cThe Moral Landscape\u201d is its unspooling diatribe against relativism.’ I am not a “New Atheist,” and find some of Sam Harris’ assertions about religion as a natural phenomenon embarrassingly unsubtle. I also have much more sympathy for David Hume’s is\/ought distinction and assumption that reason is generally the \u201cslave of the passions.” But<\/em>, I also have sympathy for Sam Harris’ almost guileless positivism and Western chauvinism. I may deny on some deep level that Ed Witten engages in an enterprise which is more morally edifying than that of a witch-doctor, but for practical purposes I encourage the flourishing of shamans who ply in String Theory as opposed to those who drink their own urine. I differ with Sam Harris as to how reality works, but I am definitely one of his tribe, and even I as a<\/em>tribal as I am in disposition feel its pull when Harris inveighs against the witch-doctors.<\/p>\n

483 – The Great European Shouting Match<\/a>. All the maps of Europe as seen by various European countries. Very funny that Germany is viewed as “dirty porn” by several other nations. How’d that come to be?<\/p>\n

How not to fight colds: is it really that clear cut?<\/a>. An interesting rebuttal to some of the advice that Jennifer Ackerman has been offering while promoting her new book Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epigenome effort makes its mark. “This week, the Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a US$170-million effort to identify and map those marks \u2014 known collectively as the human epigenome \u2014 begins its first comprehensive data release.”
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