2021 Predictions
I figure it can’t hurt to put down a list of predictions just so I can see how wrong I actually was later! So here goes… – Final USA death […]
Predicting someone’s face: look at their parents
A few years ago there was a paper out which illustrated that standard Galtonian method of regression of offspring upon parents still predicted height far better than the most modern genomic techniques. The issue is that height is a quantitative trait w…
The wheel of history turns to the gods
About six months ago I read a history of modern Italy and was struck by a passage which observed that during the early years of the Italian state none of the prominent political leaders were practicing Roman Catholics. Part of this was specific to the history of the rise of modern Italy, Umberto I fought the […]