Over at Dancing With Dogs Shanti (her name means “Peace” if my brown-speak memory is correct) has a great post on anti-upper-caste affirmative action in India: Let me make this a little clearer – my husband had to get a rank of 486 out of the hundreds of thousands of people who wrote the exam […]

Human Shields are going to Iraq! Here is a TODO list for Human Shields: * Congo (Rebels eating pygmies)* Nepal (Maoist conflict)* Zimbabwe (Shonas starving Matabeles)* Indonesia (the army killing partially Melanesian Christians in the east and Muslim whack-jobs in Aceh)* India (Kashmir)* China (Xinjiang)* Russia (Chechnya, the winters there are a bitch)* Solomon Islands […]

It is rural southerners that fight on the front-lines, not blacks, says this story: Examples: * Of the Army’s 45,586 enlisted combat infantryman, 10.6% are black. * Of the Air Force’s 12,000 pilots, 245, or about 2%, are black. * In the Navy, 2.5% of the pilots are black. Senior Air Force officials say they […]

Ron Bailey has an important article on boosting mental performance and enhancing stability.

I was going to start my first post for Gene Expression with the more clinical-sounding Prostitution and Genes but I thought that might not get people’s attention. I invite the other contributors and commenters of Gene Expression to consider the issue of sex enslavement in terms of human biodiversity. Jim Henley and Lynxx Pherrett are […]

Turned on HTML comments…hope everyone remembers to close their tags from now on :) Posted by razib at 12:22 PM

This article about the hell that inner city schools have become (from the perspective of a young TEACH FOR AMERICA graduate) is getting a lot of play. But, it ends on a high-note: I know for sure that inner-city schools don’t have to be hellholes like Emery and its District of Columbia brethren, with their […]

The WHO is actually recommending (link requires registration) that developing countries invest in genetic services as part of more holistic and complete health care system. I’m surprised that the WHO has not thought through some of the obvious unintended consequences of this recommendation. Several cultures in developing countries have a rather, well, different view of […]

Just went to see Antwone Fisher today. Good movie. But there was one thing that kind of confused me…. Look at this picture of the two actors that play the main couple in the story: Now here is a picture of Salli Richardson-the half-Irish actress that plays Denzel’s film wife: Antwone’s aunt, who was portrayed […]

Scientific American has a little article on suicide. Some quotations: “I’m not saying that suicide is purely biological, but it starts with having an underlying biological risk.” What’s the biological risk? “At a conference of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2001, Arango reported that the brains of people who were depressed and died by […]

Michelle Cottle hates Joe Millionaire and Noy Thrupkaew tells you why it degrades both genders. Yeah, but people are flocking to watch it. Unfortunately, I think as contrived and artificial as these shows are, they are shedding light on a few of the strands that makes people select their mates. Intelligence & humor are always […]

OK, when ESPN spends a lot of time reporting on this Yao/Shaq insensitivity thing-it’s getting wwwaaayyy out of hand in our society [1]. Do you know how many times a month I have people asking me to talk like Apu Nahasapeemapetilon?. I mean, I can do it, so I indulge them. Laughs all around. I […]

For those of you who have read some of my comments and posts, you know I’m desperately seeking employment as I wrap up grad school. I’d prefer a job in strategic/management consulting for biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies or in the analysis of equities in those categories. If you’re in that field, or know someone who is and […]

This City Journal article titled Why Feminism Is AWOL on Islam is important. One thing though that those of the West-PoMo-types and defenders of the tradition-might forget is that sometimes women want to be “oppressed.” Check out this article relating the far greater number of Islamists, many women, protesting equalization of the medieval Muslim divorce […]

Someone on the message board is asking about the average IQ of the enlisted soldier. Anyone know? The military is REALLY into testing, but he claims he can’t find it via google.

Please e-mail ?’s you want added to the FAQ to FAQ@gnxp.com. Posted by razib at 12:05 AM

This article from Scientific American titled “The Reality of Race” is very Zen. Read and see if you agree.

This article explodes the ‘myth of segregation’ by using a new method: The UWM researchers offer a definition that measures the percentage of residents in a metro area who live on blocks that are at least 20% black and 20% white – with the remaining 60% made up of any combination of black, white or […]

Fascinating article over at Frontpage. Just a few notes: “To the racist, the individual’s moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race.” By “intellectual character” I think that he means preferences, say, of Toni Morrison over Joyce Carol Oates. […]

After all the controversy these past few days, I decided to take stock, and note what the ethnicities of the people who have accounts on this blog are. Of the people that are active in posting or moderating, you have two brown guys (Suman is a Hindu Bengali and I am a Muslim one, though […]