{"id":43368,"date":"2011-08-29T01:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T09:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13705"},"modified":"2011-08-29T01:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T09:16:54","slug":"around-the-web-%e2%80%93-august-29th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/29\/around-the-web-%e2%80%93-august-29th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Web \u2013 August 29th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/2011\/08\/26\/thoughts-on-the-bgi-iq-study\/\">Thoughts on the BGI IQ study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.replicatedtypo.com\/uncategorized\/language-evolves-in-r-not-python-an-appology\/3834\/\">Language Evolves in R, not Python: An apology<\/a>. Open science is good. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/08\/are_twin_studie.html\">Are Twin Studies &#8220;Pretty Much Useless&#8221;?<\/a> One interesting, but unsurprising, aspect of the response to execrable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2301906\/\">Brian Palmer piece<\/a> is that several of us in the blogosphere pointed out pretty much the same set of well known findings to refute his weird charges. This isn&#8217;t rocket science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=797A2584-07CF-4A52-A5A1-5C856B183D11\">Romney vs. Perry: It&#8217;s personal<\/a>. &#8216;\u201cI think he had a few exasperating experiences with Perry, and he\u2019s not alone in that,\u201d said one source close to Romney. \u201cI think Mitt thinks Perry is not that bright.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ng\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ng.921.html\">Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci<\/a>. Probably a good idea to study diabetes in the most numerous hper-diabetic population in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/08\/north-korea-the-long-coma.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+marginalrevolution\/feed+(Marginal+Revolution)\">North Korea: The Long Coma<\/a>. I have said many a time that North Korea is the best modern representation of a pre-modern divine monarchy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/yglesias\/2011\/08\/26\/305929\/men-are-from-mars-women-like-kindles\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+matthewyglesias+(Matthew+Yglesias)\">Men Are From Mars, Women Like Kindles<\/a>. I think we need vouchers for males to close the &#8220;Kindle gap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.givewell.org\/2011\/08\/25\/working-for-givewell\/\">Working for GiveWell<\/a>. Holden is a very cool guy, for what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2011\/08\/17\/1107806108.short?rss=1\">Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/kYg9HjXPHcc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on the BGI IQ study.<br \/>\nLanguage Evolves in R, not Python: An apology. Open science is good.<br \/>\nAre Twin Studies &#8220;Pretty Much Useless&#8221;? One interesting, but unsurprising, aspect of the response to execrable Brian Palmer piece is that se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43368","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=43368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43414,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43368\/revisions\/43414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}