How'd that acquisition work out? permlink
Category: Culture
Lewis Is Said to Be Leaving Bank of America. Years ago I'd read that there was some social science which suggested that M&As were encouraged by the incentive structure of CEO careers; that is, the upside for a CEO in...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:48 PM • 2 Comments •
Stephen Hawking steps down permlink
Category: Science
Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK. H/T Anthropology.net...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:21 PM • 6 Comments •
The root of all anti-evolutionism permlink
Category: Culture
The Religious Landscape Survey has a lot of data various denominations. Recently I noticed something weird about Mormons; they are very anti-evolution, as well as anti-universalist in their views on salvation, according to this survey. These are notable views because...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 6:57 PM • 39 Comments •
One more day to vote for GrrlScientist permlink
Read about it here...
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Creation finds distributor permlink
Category: Evolution
I missed this from last week, Newmarket picks up Jon Amiel's 'Creation'....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 2:22 PM • 1 Comments •
Religion & cognitive neuroscience permlink
Category: Religion
Neuroanatomical Variability of Religiosity: We hypothesized that religiosity, a set of traits variably expressed in the population, is modulated by neuroanatomical variability. We tested this idea by determining whether aspects of religiosity were predicted by variability in regional cortical volume....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:56 AM • 9 Comments •
Ag subsidies + ag science = :-( permlink
Category: Environment
From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit: Three years ago, a technological breakthrough gave dairy farmers the chance to bend a basic rule of nature: no longer would their cows have to give birth to equal numbers of female...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:31 AM • 3 Comments •
The bleeding of American Catholicism permlink
Category: Culture
I remember back in the early 1990s that there was some talk about the United States going from a plural majority Protestant nations, to a Roman Catholic one at some point in the early 21st century. This in itself wouldn't...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 3:15 AM • 8 Comments •
Crazy genetic mutant, alien.... permlink
Category: Culture
Darren Naish has the full story. In a bygone age without scientists who...know stuff, these sorts of finds would become the germ of myth. As it is we cobble together a bunch of banal facts and likelihoods into something far...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 5:03 PM • 1 Comments •
The adventure of the Cohen Modal Haplotype permlink
Category: Genetics
The past 10 years have seen a lot of ups & downs in the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) hypothesis, which suggests some veracity to the Biblical narrative whereby the priestly caste status of the Jewish people is passed down patrilineally...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 6:50 AM • 7 Comments •
