Drink whole milk, get pregnant permlink
Category: Biology
A story just came out today about drinking high fat vs. low fat milk, and the positive effect on fertility that the former can have. Remember the report that drinking milk increases twinning? Issues like this should be kept in...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 12:10 PM • 3 Comments •
Recent Human Evolution in the house permlink
Category: Genetics
Early man 'couldn't stomach milk' Working with scientists from Mainz University in Germany, the UCL team looked for the gene that produces the lactase enzyme in Neolithic skeletons dating between 5480BC and 5000BC. These are believed to be from some...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 10:23 AM • 12 Comments •
Buddhism, a religion or not? permlink
Category: Religion
The comments for the post where I imply that Sam Harris is a religiously inclined individual addressed the topic of whether Buddhism is a religion or not. This is a common issue, and I tend to cause some irritation whenever...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 10:44 AM • 39 Comments •
Cultural selection.... permlink
Category: Culture
John Emerson has a long post about the relationship between irrationality and the emergence of new cultural forms. Worth reading. The other day I had a thought: many cultural traits are basically hitch-hiking along. Consider circumcision and the ban against...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:21 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Blog
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A request for bloggingheads.tv - Larison vs. Yglesias permlink
Category: Blog
Most of you know I'm not very into politics...but I do have two political weblogs in my RSS which pound it hard, Matt Yglesias on the "Left" and Daniel Larison on the "Right."1 I humbly request that Robert Wright have...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 12:21 PM • 5 Comments •
Sam Harris, God Intoxicated Man? permlink
Category: Religion
Sam Harris says: I do not deny that there is something at the core of the religious experience that is worth understanding. I do not even deny that there is something there worthy of our devotion. But devotion to it...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:51 AM • 30 Comments •
Things that make you go hm.... permlink
Category: Blog
Bora sayeth: Are you sure? How can a hierarchical, Chain-of-Being, authoritarian, sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, religious ideology be 'normal' when it does not understand the world correctly? Isn't it maladaptive to hold erroneous views of nature (and human nature) and...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:04 AM • 15 Comments •
South Park mega-site permlink
Category: Blog
For those of you who don't know, check out Allabout-SP.net/, which has an archive of all the South Park episodes. I don't own a TV mostly because most of the stuff is crap but still compulsively addictive...but the great thing...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:36 AM • 10 Comments •
