Nigerian diplomat was shot by someone who was scammed. Now, this is definately some incentive for the Nigerian government to crack down on this. The reason I post on this is that in the past 3 days I’ve been swamped at ALL my various e-mail addresses (@ different domains) with requests for money, which is […]

From The Economist: Malaysia’s deprived Indian minority gets none of the benefits reserved for Malays Malaysia’s underdogs PEOPLE of Indian origin account for only 8% of Malaysia’s total population, but they make up 14% of its juvenile delinquents, more than 20% of its wife- and child-beaters, and 41% of its beggars. They make up less […]

Follow-up dialogue on Joan Walsh’s piece on interracial relation(ships). The black woman who wrote the article about her son needing to marry black responds. Joan then breaks-down her double-standards, while Edwards just hurls back a reality check. I sympathize with the plight of both women. In the end, Edwards is a realist-there is a large […]

This map might interest those curious about American English dialects and cultural zones….

Mungo Man has been re-dated. 42,000 years B.P. instead of 62,000-that matters a bit….

Dirty needles ‘spread Africa Aids’ blares the headline. I hope this isn’t the public health version of ‘Cold Fusion.’ If true, it would make the epidemic far more soluble in my judgement, rather than complex cultural tendencies and grinding poverty, the problem could be rectified by targeting public health budgets. But I am skeptical, unfortunately. […]

Here is an 2 year old article titled “Heritability Estimates vs. Large Environmental Effects: The IQ Paradox Resolved”. I find the title a little bit peculiar, as the article brings up possibilities and avenues of investigation to resolve the paradox (read the article and it seems clear they are concerned with the race discrepancy in […]

Brother Poe chides those of us who become a bit too seduced by the serpent. Richard’s problem is that evolutionary conservatives-ergo Steve Sailer-have become a bit too enamoured of biology, nature and “instinct” and neglect other factors that shape human events. Biology is not always destiny. And yet, neither is culture. To prove that, note […]

Check out this post over @ Jason’s main blog. Pretty funny. Posted by razib at 07:10 PM

Over @ Matthew Yglesias’ blog they are talking about IQ & the new brain scan results. I’m going to be a bit busy with a coding project, so I invite (on Matthew’s behalf) all the heathens at Gene Expression to jump into the fray and enlighten those baptised by the True Faith of NoGeneralIntelligenseism…. (thanks […]

Eugenics. Such a naughty word. But read this article on Jews targeting 10 diseases that afflict them proactively, and you see its shadows at the edges (thanks to Steve Sailer for the link). But, this is all voluntary and decentralized. Good stuff from what I can see. But the line between Tay Sachs and other […]

How to Optimize Productivity with a Multiracial Workforce: The Theory of Differential Cutoff . Very un-PC, but I think worth the read to make us consider the implications of utilitarianism-I can see that it might be plausible to fashion a Rawlsian justification for DCT if “productivity” can be shown to be beneficial to the least […]

Books GNXP readers might enjoy (read them a while back, but made a big impact): Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series & Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio. Posted by razib at 06:25 PM

Randall Parker on the liberal national question.

There is a reasonably good article in Time magazine on Child prodigies (Update from Razib: another intelligence related article). My only complaint is that it lumps together intellectual/academic prodigies, chess prodigies, musical prodigies, sports prodigies and ‘creative’ children. I’d suspect the first three groups probably do have a lot in common physiologically and psychologically (take […]

On one of the threads we’ve been talking about Jews and their contributions to science. I decided to check out the 40 finalists for the Intel Science Competition. Among these budding geeks, I counted 6 clear Jewish names-with another possible 3 or 4. On the order of 10-20% Jewish. I also counted 6 Indians, with […]

Article on intelligence & IQ over at Science, here is the text below: Brainy Genes Boost IQ IQ appears to be about 50% genetic, but how many genes contribute is a mystery. Now, two teams report finding associations between two genes and intelligence in healthy individuals. This kind of research could help scientists understand what […]

Sometime in the past 100,000 years man became man-the modern panoply of traits that we associate with “culture” seem to have developed. This article posits a possible genetic reason for man’s cultural explosion (nothing new if you’ve followed the travails of the fox2p gene): “I think there was a biological change, a genetic mutation that […]

Off the wires: Race-conscious university admissions policies are needed to increase diversity in science and engineering professions, Stanford University officials said Friday. Stanford said it will join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in supporting the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy in a closely watched court battle. A legal brief the universities plan to file […]

Just a thought prompted by the black beauty controversy-being someone to the political and social Right of most of my friends, I often get attacked for making generalizations about race & sex. The word “ignorant” often comes up (generally these outbursts decline as t -> long time). But, many of these same individuals will make […]