Category: Blog
Saw Ratatouille today. Never once checked the time. Very good film. So far Yahoo Movie critics & users give it an A-, and it seems like it'll win the box office. Much recommended (Pixar animation is the bomb obviously, but...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 7:29 PM • 9 Comments •
The Normal Distribution permlink
Category: Science
Chris of Mixing Memory has a must read post up about the normal distribution. The man did the tedious work of encoding mathematical notation and symbolism into HTML, so he should take a bow....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:39 PM • 1 Comments •
iPhone. Atheists are oppressed. permlink
Category: Blog
Update: iPhone, iPhone, iPhone? Jobs is God? iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone!!! iPhone. iPhone. iPhone? iPhone-iPhone. iPhone iPhone. Apple Store, wet my pants. iPhone iPhone iPhone. iPhone!!!! iPhone iPhone. iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone iPhone. Jobs does not exist!...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 2:58 PM • 4 Comments •
Domestication of humans by the cat permlink
Category: Genetics
There's a paper to be published on domestic cat phylogenetics in Science tomorrow. National Geographic has a summary, but Forbes has a more thorough treatment. The short of it is that the maternal lineages (mtDNA) of domestic cats seem derived...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:43 PM • 18 Comments •
The Neandertal genome, part n permlink
Category: Genetics
John Hawks has the details on a new paper (DOI might not work yet) coming out in PNAS. The researchers trying to reconstruct the Neandertal genome are reporting biases in degradation which is aiding their task. Scientific American has a...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 2:49 AM • 1 Comments •
Baby vs. the cobra permlink
Category: Blog
Via Sepia Mutiny....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 10:23 PM • 1 Comments •
Why bother with Jews and other odds and ends permlink
Category: Culture
Someone named Schvach Yid left an irritated comment in response to my post about the term Judeo-Christian. He also sent me a short email clearing up the fact that Judaism is more than legalism, and that it is steep to...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 4:10 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Evolution
John Hawks has an excellent decomposition of the story yesterday in The New York Times about paleoanthropology and biology....
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Paleontology & genetics - ebony & ivory? in The New York Times permlink
Category: Evolution
John Noble Wilford in The New York Times has a piece titled The Human Family Tree Has Become a Bush With Many Branches, which reflects the current consensus thinking that the hominid lineage was until recently relatively diversified, with a...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 10:05 AM • 3 Comments •
Nick Wade on recent evolution human in The New York Times permlink
Category: Genetics
Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally (The New York Times):No one yet knows to what extent natural selection for local conditions may have forced the populations on each continent down different evolutionary tracks. But those tracks could turn out...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:45 PM • 7 Comments •
