A friend of mine pointed me to an interesting weblog, Here in Glitner. From the "About" page: Reflections from my life as a Muslim, perspectives on Islam in my true life as a non-Muslim. I was a Muslim woman, a...
This article pointed me to this interesting paper, Rapid adaptive evolution of northeastern coyotes via hybridization with wolves: The dramatic expansion of the geographical range of coyotes over the last 90 years is partly explained by changes to the landscape...
Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa: The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4 vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of...
I've been crunching some county-by-county data at one of my other weblogs: Where the fat folks live Diabetes and obesity The white vote for Obama, by county & correlates Are over-leveraged counties seeing an increase in food stamp usage?...
Open Secrets has data on members of the House and Senate in relation to their net worth. Here are some descriptive statistics: Democrats & Republicans: 25th percentile = $228,006 Median = $791,004 75thth percentile = $2,962,519 Mean = $6,438,210 Republicans:...
The New York Times has an article on cousin marriage that's up. Here's some important bits: Shane Winters, 37, whom she now playfully refers to as her "cusband," proposed to her at a surprise birthday party in front of family...
Last week I pointed to numbers on evolution and the Muslim world. The New York Times has an article up about the conference which inspired my investigation into that topic. The reporter focuses on the rote learning and creativity as...
The state of China has 1/5 of humanity within its borders, so it's genetic structure is of interest. It is obviously important for medical reasons to clarify issues of population structure so that disease susceptibility among the Han is well...
A new paper in PLoS ONE, Evaluation of Group Genetic Ancestry of Populations from Philadelphia and Dakar in the Context of Sex-Biased Admixture in the Americas, doesn't add much to what we know. They looked at a several hundred individuals...
