Traffic patterns to this website
Since I’ve been on the Discover Magazine website for one year I thought I’d look at some patterns in Google Analytics. Specifically, over the interval from April 1st 2010 to April 30th 2011 (alas, I lost access to the ScienceBlogs traffic d…
A blog and Bin Laden
Chris Mooney:
The news stream of the country just shifted dramatically. I was up late last night, putting on hold an article deadline, unable to take my eyes off CNN–and remembering what it was like to be in D.C. on 9/11, huddled in a hotel watching …
Open Thread – 4/30/2011
I haven’t had these for a while. Following a request from the new year I’ve been mulling how to write up Population Structure and Eigenanalysis in an intelligible manner to the general readership. Still kind of at an impasse. On a logistica…
Friday Fluff – April 29th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Taste & behavior genetics.
2) Weird search query of the week (#5 keyword!): “china provinces”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “What is best in life?”:
You do know that Red Sonja is …
Sheril Kirshenbaum’s lateral meme transfer
My friend Sheril Kirshenbaum at The Intersection is going solo and joining the crew at Wired Science Blogs. Since I have other friends there the RSS addition will be natural. They better take care of her there. I know from first hand experience that th…
ScienceBlogsTM to National Geographic
You can read about the details here. Interestingly, Christopher Mims has been tweeting the “secret” early history of ScienceBlogs under the #SBhistory hashtag. I was one of the original 14 in January of 2006, so I saw a lot of things go dow…
South Park
Season premier this Wednesday. Three days and counting….
Friday Fluff – April 22nd, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: South Indian Phylogeography.
2) Weird search query of the week: “star de hustler”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Two opinions on D.T.C. personal genomic testing”:
I say go further. Ban …
Awesome beer commercial
You don’t need to know Dutch:
Around the Web – Tax Day 2011
Jason Collins has been blogging up a storm at Evolving Economics. If you haven’t, I suggest adding his RSS feed.
Teenager stabs himself to death onstage at open mic night in front of shocked crowd at coffee shop. “”It was really uncle…
Friday Fluff – April 15th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past:
Razib Khan, journalist?
I get a fair number of emails at this point. First, I apologize to those of you who are sending me emails for whom it is not part of your job who I haven’t responded to. Stuff gets lost in the din. Second, I’m rather busy right now, so that…
Friday Fluff – April 7th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Let’s talk about sex…ratios (evolution that is).
2) Weird search query of the week: “clinical flirtation consumer reality”
3) Comment of the week, in response to
Libya’s one road
The whole Libyan affair seems kind of like a joke, albeit with some serious consequences for the people involved. Gaddafi’s bizarre behavior. Hapless rebels which seem out of central casting for a dark military comedy like Tropic Thunder. An Amer…
Gay cavemen!!!
I hadn’t run into this story today (thank God!). John Hawks’ begins a critical post:
I am just about to go crazy today. I just can’t seem to escape the “gay caveman” story.
No, I don’t mean the Geico caveman who like…
Friday Fluff – April 1st, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Lydians & Etruscans.
2) Weird search query of the week: “girls from which country are the most attractive?+iran”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Who thinks the sun goes around the earth?&…
The New York Times “pay wall”
So what do readers of this blog think? Pay or no pay? It’s useful, and The New York Times is pretty massive in scope, if sometimes lacking in breadth. I love their data-oriented stuff, but I ignore their columnists and a lot of their “analy…
Guest posts @ Sepia Mutiny
Since it doesn’t show up in my total content aggregator (RSS), and I don’t know how to author filter Movable Type posts easily, I thought I would point to my guest posts over at the Sepia Mutiny weblog:
Speaking of a demonstration in Pakist…
Friday Fluff – March 25th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: 10 questions for Jim Crow. Arguably the doyen of modern population geneticists. Take a look at who he’s had as graduate students or post-docs, and there’s a high probability there is someone you know of, you…
Around the Web – March 22nd, 2011
Monuments to Clan Life Are Losing Their Appeal. A rule of thumb is that the Chinese tend to emphasize permanent architecture less than other societies, probably due to the tendency not to use durable materials.
The Next Bubble: Farmland. Did not know: …