What are you reading?
I haven’t had time to read a book front to back in 2 months. Probably the longest period I’ve gone like this since I was 13. I plan to “binge” as much as I can over the Holidays. Is there anything interesting you’re reading? And yes, I already have The Better Angels of Our Nature: […]
Pepper sauces
I’ll Have the Red: Hot Sauce, Island by Island. Seems like the scotch bonnet is the basis of a lot of Caribbean sauces. You might be curious about my reviews of hot sauces from 4 years ago.
A letter to a non-prominent science blogger
A peculiar piece, What Is The Place Of New Science Bloggers In Today’s Science Blogosphere? You can see responses in the comments, as well as Ed Yong at G+. My own perspective is colored by the fact that I’ve been blogging since April of 2002. In other words, this April I’ll probably be blogging for […]
Sunday Stuff – October 30th, 2011
Something different today. First, an elegant international cat: Second, reading Madagascar: A Short History prompts me to repost a very long essay I wrote ~3 years ago. I have some new ideas in the area of the evolution of religious institutions, which I want to work out in a new essay. But that’s going to […]
Notes on comments
I dislike cluttering this site with administrative notes, but I want to put this post up as a reference for the future. It’s not really aimed at regular readers/commenters, who know the explicit and implicit norms. 1) If you use quotation marks, make sure that you’re actually quoting something your interlocutor said, rather than adding […]
Notes on comments
I dislike cluttering this site with administrative notes, but I want to put this post up as a reference for the future. It’s not really aimed at regular readers/commenters, who know the explicit and implicit norms. 1) If you use quotation marks, make sure that you’re actually quoting something your interlocutor said, rather than adding […]
Sunday Stuff – October 23rd, 2011
1) Weird search query of the week: “145 iq can’t hold job”
2) Fluff below the fold….
Gene Expression DonorsChoose
I haven’t raised that much money this year on DonorsChoose. No idea why that is. Perhaps I didn’t pick projects appealing to my readers? Also, I’ve frankly been too busy to bring notice to it very often. It’s great that Phil is doing the heavy lifting for Discover, but I’d like to help a little […]
The browsers you use
In the comments below Clark misunderstood the browser data I was reporting. It wasn’t from this website, but another. Here’s the Google Analytics on the browser/OS combination for this website:
DonorsChoose 2011
Since 2006 I’ve been participating in DonorsChoose (thanks to timely reminders from Janet Stemwedel whenever life got too busy for me to keep track of anything). So I finally set up a page where you can donate to various life science related projects, with a bias toward genetics. Of course you don’t have to donate […]
Saturday Stuff – October 8th, 2011
1) Post from the past, One Nation Under Gods, and Mitt Romney, over before it began. 2) Weird search query of the week: “false jewish genetic studies racist.”he 3) Comment of the week: Frank Sweet’s “Legal History of the Color Line” is a good read on this topic. One of Sweet’s arguments is that black […]
Saturday Stuff – October 1st, 2011
1) Weird search query of the week: “choropleth of jehovah witness population.”
2 Your weekly fluff fix:
Sunday Stuff – September 25th, 2011
I don’t really enjoy reading past posts on this weblog (I said too much stupid stuff), and I haven’t been following comments too closely. So I’m going to skip those for now.
1) Weird search query of the week: “razib khan hiv.&#…
Saturday Stuff – September 17th, 2011
Very busy week. I don’t have time to look for past posts and I haven’t been reading the comments closely, so I’m skipping those. 1) Weird search query of the week: “why, according to christian, did foragers become farmers?.” 2) And finally, your weekly fluff fix: (a guest kat who made as sojourn at casa […]
Which undersampled groups would you like to see?
To my excitement I got the Tutsi (almost) and Malagasy genotypes. These are cases where N = 1 is a big deal, as opposed to N = 0. What other groups might be informative? Most of the world’s population is obviously not sampled, but they’re n…
Friday Fluff – September 9th, 2011
1) Post from the past: Introgression in wolves & dogs. 2) Weird search query of the week: “any gay iranians to shag.” 3) Comment of the week, in response to Twin studies are not useless: It’s interesting that one of the San genomes h…
What our ancestors did best
I know I’ve posted this before, but in light of another paper on archaic admixture, this video from 10 years ago keeps going through my mind….
Caturday Fluff, September 3rd, 2011
Been very busy of late. 1) Post from the past: Of pigs, people and porcine polygenism. 2) Weird search query of the week: “kate gosselin before and after.” 3) Comment of the week, in response to Why Melanesians are blonde resolved?: ……
Around the Web – August 29th, 2011
Thoughts on the BGI IQ study.
Language Evolves in R, not Python: An apology. Open science is good.
Are Twin Studies “Pretty Much Useless”? One interesting, but unsurprising, aspect of the response to execrable Brian Palmer piece is that se…