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 …
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…
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 …
Friday Fluff – April 15th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past:
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
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?&…
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…
Friday Fluff – March 18th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters.
2) Weird search query of the week: “cheap pretty tutus.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Think Twins”:
An interesting point. No one ca…
Saturday Stuff – March 12th, 2011
Due to a “busy” cat-schedule, the regular Friday posting was delayed for one day. If you have a problem with it, the individual with whom you can take it up is indefinitely taking a nap. So good luck with that!
1) First, a post from the pa…
Friday Fluff – March 4th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters.
2) Weird search query of the week: “are you allowed to drink alcohol in class.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Are we still evolving”…
Friday Fluff – February 25th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: “Black” & white twins again.
2) Weird search query of the week: “buff chimpanzee.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to The evolution of man is no cartoon:
I think the confounding notion here is …
Friday Fluff – February 18th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind.
2) Weird search query of the week: “pictures of a famous woman drinking alcohol.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to D.I.Y. population structure inference, part 1…
Friday Fluff – February 4th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Neandertal & humans – introgression.
2) Weird search query of the week: “non-coding rnas and dragons.”
3) Comment of the week, in response to Why siblings differ differently:
The people who criticize…
Friday Fluff – January 28th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Theological incorrectness – when people behave how they shouldn’t….sort of .
2) Weird search query of the week: “khoikhoi woman in porn.” I had a suspicion I knew who entered this search …
Friday Fluff – January 14th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: More complex than simple addition. 2) Weird search query of the week: “kiera knightly naked truth”. 3) Comment of the week, in response to The genetic affinities of Ethiopians: First of all, you should know that Behar’s Oromos were sampled in areas neighboring the Kenyan border, while Ethiopian […]
Friday Fluff – January 7th, 2011
1. First, a post from the past: The ancient origins of African pygmies. 2. Weird search query of the week: “method man wife”. 3.Comment of the week, in response to The empires of American English: I live in the Galesburg, Illinois area and here there still is a noticible boundary, that runs just north of […]
Friday Fluff – December 31st, 2010
1. First, a post from the past: Golden ideas. 2. Weird search query of the week: “young girls gone mature”. 3.Comment of the week, in response to Slouching toward idiocracy: JWM and Dave Both hit on key concepts here. Its not just cats, cattle and humans, in fact the relative brain size of almost all […]
Friday Fluff – December 24th, 2010
1. First, a post from the past: Lions, and tigers, and snow leopards! Oh, my!. 2. Weird search query of the week: “Lions, and tigers, and snow leopards! Oh, my!”. 3.Comment of the week, in response to Heritability and genes as causes: I knew some people thought I had over-reacted to the initial item/press release. […]
Friday Fluff – December 17th, 2010
1. First, a post from the past:
Grooming => Language ~ Larger Social Groups.
2. Weird search query of the week: “scottish hair”.
3.Comment of the week, in response to
Friday Fluff – December 10th, 2010
1. First, a post from the past: Natural selection of a human gene: FUT2.
2. Weird search query of the week: “cognitive miser”.
3.Comment of the week, in response to The history of us all:
1. I take it you think Angus Maddison’s Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD is too technical for […]