I saw the NBC version of the comedy Coupling tonight. By a weird coincidence BBC America had the same episode on earlier in the original British version! And yes, about 75% of the script was same, word for word. It was really weird watching Americans behave like they were…British. Perhaps watching the British version totally […]

Steve Sailer links to an article that encapsulates Ahmad Chalabai’s response to his piece in The American Conservative on cousin marriage-””The Jews have had cousin marriages galore, and it hasn’t hurt them.” When I asked a friend of mine who is half-Israel Arab (his father’s family are Arabs from Nazareth who have Israeli citizenship) about […]

“The International Balzan Foundation has awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize in genetics and evolution to Wen-Hsiung Li, the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in Ecology & Evolution.” Speaking of mathematical population geneticists. I have a copy of his book Molecular Evolution, which has a pretty gentle learning curve (almost like a general survey), especially […]

The bane of Orientalism has died. If it were not for Said, I wonder if Bernard Lewis would be so famous.

Ikram Saeed recommended Muslim Under Progress some time ago-but I haven’t read it much until recently. Check it out, it is sane and green, a rare thing in my opinion (sorry Zack, I view you as a Muslim anomaly, outside of history ;) A recent post titled Some notes on secularism, secularisation and Islam: I […]

After reading this article (attached below) on Australian aid & interference in Papua New Guinea, I can’t help but think, “thank god for the New Guineans that Australia is right next door,” so they can’t forget about their former colony. Similarly, though Mexico is no colony and never was (officially), the presence of the United […]

Full article attached below for non-subscribers. Mauritius seems to be a model for co-existence of many ethnic groups, and with a market dominant minority (whites) to boot. See this page for an explanation of the Byzantine Mauritian ethnic structure.

Why people with large heads suffer less cognitive decline in old age.

ParaPundit points me to this interesting but uninsightfull article on the relationship between religion & wealth. Ah, the life of a sociologist….

Hey all, taking a break from the hub-bub of regular blogging. Something that I noticed recently when looking @ our traffic-we have gone up to 1,000 hits from about 600 in 2 weeks. Most of these new hits seem to be through search engines. Interestingly, the average length of visit has gone from about 3:30 […]

I’m probably going to be in Portland this weekend (Imbler, not Maine). If anyone wants to have coffee (or actually, coffeed mud) @ Stump Town (on Belmont) on Sat. or Sunday email me (this doesn’t include you B.H.G.-I’ll give you a call before I show up).

Some comments on my post More Census Gleanings may have got lost in the site changeover. Please repost any comments and questions and I will try to reply. One of my replies that got lost was about the IQ of ‘Blacks’ in Britain. My post said that the Black-White differential was less than in the […]

DNA study to settle ancient mystery about mingling of Inuit, Vikings asserts the headline-but read on, the story makes clear that it won’t settle jack. Did some of the Greenland Norse become absorbed into the skraeling peoples? Surely. But if you read any of Gretel Ehrlich’s books on Greenland you will note how much intermarriage […]

Future Pundit posts on some new research by Robert Plomin indicating that abnormal cognitive function (learning disabilities) is the tail end of the normal spectrum. Kind of reminds me of the arguments over Asperger’s Syndrome-is it an illness, or part of the normal human continuum? As we’ve noted before-assortive mating by IQ, personality and occupation […]

Is Australia the world’s gayest country? A few points…. Generally of British Isles stock (kind of sound gay to start with) Disproportionately descended from inmates (male mostly) Sometimes work in the outback with nothing in a 100 mile radius but dingos and your “comrades” Most mammals in Oz are weird, why shouldn’t the people turn […]

If you watched The Magdalene Sisters, can you answer the poll below on which one is the pretty one? Me and a leprechaun got into an argument on that point…. On a non-trivial note-Corante, the new home of Derek Lowe, is a pretty phat tech news portal! Also, I’ve also been reading Behavorial Genetics in […]

The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming! declares this article over that Tech Central Station. The author makes plausible projections of the low European birth rate + the inevitable drop in Islamic birth rates to come to the conclusion that about 25% of Western Europeans might be Muslim within 50 years. Among the working […]

Amy Chua has article in The Wilson Quarterly that summarizes her ideas in World On Fire. (via Jack Strocchi) Posted by razib at 12:18 PM

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The World on PRI had a segment on a Sikh Indian American running for a senate seat in Illinois as a Republican. The piece highlights the fact that the candidate dresses like a traditional Sikh. What get’s on my nerves about this sort of piece are moments like when a spokesmen for an Indian American […]