Friday Fluff – August 26th, 2011
1) Post from the past: Men at work: hoes, ploughs, and steel.
2) Weird search query of the week: “neanderthal human hybrid.” Do they have someone in mind?
3) Comment of the week, in response to Twin studies are not useless:
Brian Palmer
Friday Fluff – August 19th, 2011
1) Post from the past: The arc of evolutionary genetics is long.
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…
Friday Fluff – August 12th, 2011
1) Post from the past: Dwarfism and cell division.
2) Weird search query of the week: “is it legal to marry your third cousin.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to Pleasure through signalling:
Once at a farmer’s market I bought a cou…
Friday Fluff – August 5th, 2011
1) Post from the past: Genetics is One: Mendelism and quantitative traits
2) Weird search query of the week: “brad pitt look alike.”
3) Please note that I don’t endorse the views of the “comment of the week”! Comment of …
Around the Web – August 3rd, 2011
Culture of Science. The peripatetic Sheril Kirshenbaum’s new weblog. Though I think she’s going to stay put for a while now.
The Life-Spans of Empires. I’ll be talking about this paper soon.
Academics ‘Guest Authoring’ Gho…
Friday Fluff – July 29nd, 2011
1) Post from the past: Why does race matter for women?
2) Weird search query of the week: “hustler buyuk memeli.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Smart educated men less likely to think cheating always wrong”:
BTW – …
Another unsatisfied non-reader (Glenn Davey)
“Interesting” email from Glenn Davey objecting to the way in which I closed the thread on evolutionary psychology:
Why bother with a blog if you’re so bad with people?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/07/the-end-of-evolutionary…
Around the Web – July 25th, 2011
I assume you’re hot?
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.. I’ve read Gates of Vienna before. Despite my anti-multiculturalist attitudes I generally departed with them over their sloppy marshaling of history. Two wrongs d…
Friday Fluff – July 22nd, 2011
1) Post from the past: Religion & IQ.
2) Weird search query of the week: “picture of john gillespie japanese sports.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Neanderthal-human mating, months later….”:
Humans mating with…
Who knows heritability and what do they know
Heritability is a fraught topic. It comes up repeatedly on this weblog, but even long time readers can be confused as to its implications, as evidenced by the incorrect inferences made from their own understanding of the concept. The most common proble…
One more reader survey for the road….
It has been brought to my attention that Discover Magazine has a reader survey as well. Here’s the first page:
Welcome!
All responses to this survey will remain completely confidential and will be studied and interpreted only in combination with …
2011 Reader Survey: GNXXP vs. GNXYP edition
A typical female GNXP reader?
We’ve moved north of 400 responses on the reader survey. I think the goal of an N of 500 is totally viable. In the past I’ve actually pushed it well north of 600 by leaving the survey open for a while. I know…
2011 reader survey preliminary results
My sample size for the reader survey is now ~200. I’m aiming for ~500. If you are a regular reader of this weblog, please consider filling out the survey. The software is telling me that the average reader is taking about ~10 minutes. All questio…
Friday Fluff – July 15th, 2011
1) Post from the past: Race: the current consensus.
2) Weird search query of the week: “i, for one, welcome our aquatic overlords reddit.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “What one (or more) genomes can tell us”:
An imp…
Summer 2011 Gene Expression Reader Survey
I’ve been taking surveys of the readership of this weblog since 2004. Here is my last one, from the summer of 2010. Before I moved to Discover I also did one in the winter of 2010. Here’s a reader survey from the winter of 2009. Another fr…
Reader survey questions?
I usually do a reader survey once a year or so. I figure I should do one soon. Usually I ask standard demographic questions, etc. Since I’ve been at Discover for over a year I assume there’s been some change since I first arrived. I’l…
Friday Fluff – July 8th, 2011
1) Post from the past: From each according to their nature, to each according to their nature.
2) Weird search query of the week: “incest blogs.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Scientific American blogs!”:
What’s…
Summer has come
So it is now less than a week until A Dance with Dragons, the 5th book in George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, is out. The internet is supposedly flooded with spoilers, some of them fake, thanks to the Germans mistake…
Scientific American blogs
If you read blogs you know that Scientific American has a Blog Network up.
Some quick links to friends of mine who have relocated:
Crude Matter (a.k.a Michelle)
EvoEcoLab (Kevin Zelnio)
Thoughtful Animal (Jason Goldman)
Psychotronic Girl (Melody Dye)
T…
Comments getting caught in spam
This occurs every now and then…legit comments without copious numbers of links get caught in the spam filter. Regular commenter Michelle has had her comments tagged as spam twice since she’s changed her back-link URL to Scientific American….
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