Decade in race, all brown people are the same permlink
Category: Culture
Noticed a piece at The Root, The Decade in Race: WTF Was That?: After the tragedy of 9/11, Arab American stereotypes morph from harmless convenient store owner to new American nigger. The Simpsons' Apuh is suddenly nowhere near as funny...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 11:46 PM • 6 Comments •
Contagious Tasmanian Devil cancer permlink
Category: Genetics
Carl Zimmer has a nice write up of the a new paper in Science which characterizes the nature of the cells which are manifest during devil facial tumor disease. The Tasmanian Devil Transcriptome Reveals Schwann Cell Origins of a Clonally...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 7:24 PM • 5 Comments •
The Google Years permlink
Category: Technology
The Google Decade Ends: If the search king hasn't ripped up your business yet, just wait. 10 years is a long time in the tech industry. I wonder which company will be the center of retrospectives in 2010? It seems...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 7:19 PM • •
Africa's urban poor becoming obese permlink
Category: Health
Yeah, you read that right. Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?:Descriptive results showed that the prevalence of urban overweight/obesity increased by nearly 35% during the period covered. The increase was higher among...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 6:36 PM • 18 Comments •
Fungus adapts fast...at first permlink
Category: Genetics
The Properties of Adaptive Walks in Evolving Populations of Fungus: The rarity of beneficial mutations has frustrated efforts to develop a quantitative theory of adaptation. Recent models of adaptive walks, the sequential substitution of beneficial mutations by selection, make two...
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Last second charitable donations permlink
Category: Culture
If you're getting in at the last second, please see GiveWell's top charities....
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Posted by Razib Khan at 1:23 PM • •
The bear market rally of 2009? permlink
Category: Culture
The Massive Stock Market Rally of 2009 Ends Today: In what the Wall Street Journal calls "a comeback of historic proportions," the U.S. stock market's banner year closes later on today. The paper says, "With one trading day remaining in...
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Posted by Razib Khan at 8:01 AM • 3 Comments •
What Darwin Never Knew (online) permlink
Category: Evolution
If you missed it, you can still watch it online....
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Tools to analyze gene expression permlink
Category: Genetics
Disease Gene Characterization through Large-Scale Co-Expression Analysis: Celsius, the largest co-normalized microarray dataset of Affymetrix based gene expression, was used to calculate the correlation between all possible gene pairs on all platforms, and generate stored indexes in a web searchable...
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Four Stone Hearth & Avatar permlink
Category: Anthroplogy
Here....
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