Friday Fluff – July 1st, 2011
1) Post from the past: Blood of the British.
2) Weird search query of the week: “khan cannabilism and evolution.” FYI, I abstain from consumption of human flesh.
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Reify my genes!”:
I’…
Subscribe to Nature for 1 year for $36?
I saw this on twitter and though I would pass it on. A 1 year subscription to Nature print + online for $36. I have a lot of ambivalence about the way that some scientific publishers comport themselves, but this seems like a good deal, and I know many …
Around the Web – June 24th, 2011
There have been some good posts at Gene Expression Classic you might want to check out. In particular:
Synaesthesia and savantism and Where do morals come from?. The second is a review of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality by Kevin M…
Friday Fluff – June 24th, 2011
1) Post from the past: The wisdom of Seinfeld. How far in the past? When I wrote this it was closer to the series finale of Seinfeld than to now!
2) Weird search query of the week: “economics of having children marketplace.” I think I mi…
Friday Fluff – June 17th, 2011
1) Post from the past: The biological bases of behavioral variation.
2) Weird search query of the week: “clothedpornstars.” OK, so now I know what this is. But are there stars in this kink-genre?
3) Comment of the week, in response to …
Friday Fluff – June 10th, 2011
1) Post from the past: What it means to be a Turk.
2) Weird search query of the week: “clothedporn.” 5 hits from this! Weird.
3) Comment of the week, in response to
3QuarksDaily size writing prize
Sean already mentioned it, and now that I’m feeling a bit better I want to as well: The annual 3QuarksDaily science writing contest nominees are out. You can vote here. Too many of my friends are up for nomination, so I’m going to avoid ma…
Friday Fluff – June 3rd, 2011
1) I haven’t been feeling very well the last few days, and don’t have the energy or interest to go trolling through my archives. So I recommend you read Steve Brenner’s Does Arsenic Really Exist in the DNA from GFAJ-1?
2) Weird sear…
Friday Fluff – May 27th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Personality variation by region (USA).
2) Weird search query of the week: “why are ligers so big?”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “AIBioTech Sports X Factor is not worth the money”:
As …
Friday Fluff – May 27th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Personality variation by region (USA).
2) Weird search query of the week: “why are ligers so big?”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “AIBioTech Sports X Factor is not worth the money”:
As …
Giant enjoying eating humans
(the baby is laughing slow-mo)
Friday Fluff – May 20th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Pentecostals are stupid? Unitarians are smart?.
2) Weird search query of the week: “aki kaurismaki”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Fixing science, in part”:
In one of Ben Goldacre’s …
Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Convergence
Her new blog is live over at Wired, Convergence:
Convergence is a forum to explore all sorts of topics, but the primary focus will be the interdisciplinary nature of understanding our world. For example, if we aspire to protect biodiversity, we must ad…
Not the real Canada?
Amusing. Some Fans in Canada See Vancouver as Foreign:
If you are American, you might think that the Vancouver Canucks are now Canada’s team because they are the last Canada-based club standing among the final four in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Well, …
Friday Fluff – May 13th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Why the indigenous still dominate the Andean region.
2) Weird search query of the week (#5 keyword!): “sara sidner ethnicity”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Edge question 2011″:
At bus…
The Lonely Island genius
There’s a reason that The Lonely Island guys are blowing up all over the media. I never thought I’d put up a video where Michael Bolton is featured…but they make it watchable and entertaining!
(note, this is the uncensored version)
Friday Fluff – May 6th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: 10 questions for Judith Rich Harris.
2) Weird search query of the week (#5 keyword!): “dutch best language”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “One root for rice”:
Timely paper! Rice agricu…
A survey on personal genomics for a Ph.D.
Like John Hawks I get a fair number of questions from students. Some of them seem legit and I try and answer them, but sometimes they’re asking detailed things which would take me too long and it falls out of my task stack. And alas on occasion t…
Comments in the republic of Khan
So today I received an email from regular commenter German Dziebel:
Razib, what’s your relationship with the Discover Magazine? Up until now I thought of your blog as more or less a public forum, rather than a private franchise. Please clarify, s…
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