{"id":43239,"date":"2011-08-19T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T16:25:31","slug":"friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-august-19th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-august-19th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fluff \u2013 August 19th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1) Post from the past:<\/strong> The arc of evolutionary genetics is long<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n2) Weird search query of the week<\/strong>: “sandra laing genetics.” This was actually the #1 query the past week. That’s the strange part, as Sandra Laing isn’t in the news right now from what I can tell.<\/p>\n

3) Comment of the week<\/strong>, in response to None dare call it eugenics<\/a>, two comments:<\/p>\n

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6. Christopher@BorderWars Says: <\/p>\n

Throwing around the term \u201cEugenics\u201d is akin to the internet tactic of invoking the Nazis. Without talking specifics, it\u2019s just an attempt to smear by associating the mundane aspects with the horrific. For instance, nearly anything that\u2019s authoritarian has been called \u201cfascist\u201d \u2026 why not just use authoritarian? Do we need to hang death camps and the final solution on anything that is remotely governmental?<\/p>\n

People make little e eugenic decisions when they mate select. They also espouse eugenics in a passive manner when they follow fashions, idolize models and athletes, etc. Heck, they defraud the eugenic assumptions when they get cosmetic surgery, apply copious amounts of makeup, get hair plugs, and even work out excessively using supplements and drugs. If you desire to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) Post from the past: The arc of evolutionary genetics is long.<\/p>\n

2) Weird search query of the week: “sandra laing genetics.” This was actually the #1 query the past week. That’s the strange part, as Sandra Laing isn’t in the n…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239","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=43239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43305,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239\/revisions\/43305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}