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January 31, 2010
Category: Culture
Posted by Razib Khan at 11:09 AM • 1 Comments •
January 30, 2010
Category: Economics
Two interesting graphs from Calculated Risk. The first shows that the changes in GDP seem during the last recessive are on a par with those of the early 1980s and before (though we don't know if we're in a U...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:31 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Culture
A comment below prompted me to slap together a post quickly displaying some data which illustrates just how religious South Asians are compared to East Asians. Anyone with an interest in world history will not be surprised by this assertion....
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:57 AM • 11 Comments •
January 29, 2010
Category: Culture
Jobless Turn to Family for Help, Often With Complications: More than half of the respondents to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll of 708 unemployed adults nationwide said they had borrowed money from friends or relatives. In most cases,...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:26 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Culture
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:42 PM • 8 Comments •
January 28, 2010
Category: Culture
The New York Times Magazine has a long profile of an American from Alabama, Omar Hammami, who is now fighting for the Islamists in Somalia, The Jihadist Next Door. The optics of his family background seem tailor-made for a compelling...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:41 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Anthroplogy
Excellent one at A Primate of Modern Aspect: Okay, so we've got lots of increases in brain size, and a few decreases. In the cases where we have decreases, we usually have body size decreases as well. More often than...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:41 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Technology
I've got a few installed now. Has anyone had any issues with performance yet? I recall back when I used Firefox that was the main downside of having extensions. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see TechCrunch. Or...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:43 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Technology
Mike the Mad Biologist points me to an interesting article in Wired, Uranium Is So Last Century -- Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke. Of course Wired is a booster of many things which never take off, but in general...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:37 AM • 5 Comments •
January 27, 2010
Category: Space
NASA to Review Human Spaceflight: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is preparing for a major evaluation of its human spaceflight program, even as many who will conduct the survey have yet to be informed of the agency's revised mission....
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:58 PM • •
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