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Daily Archives: September 2, 2009
I do not usually have carnal relations with goats. But…
What is this strange blog that seems to like me, happy about my voice and putting me on my very own blog roll and stuff?????
Don’t forget to check out the “about” page.
New Paper: Genetic diversity and emergence of ethnic groups
A new study using both genetic and cultural data shows that ethnic groups in Central Asia are primarily a sociocultural phenomenon.
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Conflict in how to frame animals?
OK, folks, your wisdom is needed.
I got an email from Sheril Kirshenbaum asking me to promote a blog post in which she asks for pictures that might be used to illustrate her upcoming book on kissing. I had planned to help her out, and in fact, here I am doing that right now: Please look at this post and consider sending Sheril some pics. Be nice about it. No porn please.
More evidence that races don’t really exist
Central Asian ethnic groups are more defined by societal rules than ancestry. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genetics found that overall there are more genetic differences within ethnic groups than between them, indicating that separate ‘ethnic groups’ exist in the mind more than the blood.
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The Carnival of Evolution, # 14
Health Care Can’t Wait
Sunrise, sunset… Not so swiftly flows The Day
I just received a very cool graphic from my friend and former student who is currently living under the ice at the South Pole. She is very excited about the implications of this graphic.
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Acting for the survival of the species (a falsehood)
Today’s falsehood is the idea that individual animals act for the benefit of their own species.
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Girls Doing Math
If You Get Sick, It’s Your Own Fault
…all you need to do to not die from the flu is to “eat healthy” and take lots of vitamins. If you eat healthy and take lots of vitamins and get the flu, your lymph nodes will swell up a little but that’s all….
…Addicts totally made their own decision to become addicted and then become thieves because they needed a fix. If I have to exercise my constitutional rights and shoot this addict breaking into my home, then so be it. That is not my problem….
… and so on …
I couldn’t help it. I wrote a raving political rant over at Quiche Moraine.
Community Based Bird Watching in Manu, Peru
Have a look at this:
This year Kolibri Expeditions started working with the communities of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve lying just next door to Manu. Going down the Alto Madre de Dios river Manu is to the left and Amarakaeri reserve to the right.
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