For a woman to “have it all” (i.e. an ambitious career, a loving marriage, well-adjusted children), it helps if her husband gives up his own chance to do so. Betsy Morris, “Trophy husbands”, Fortune, 2002 October 14. Behind a great woman at work, there is often a great man at home….The men we’re talking about […]

Thomas Barnett, author of The Pentagon’s New Map (an excellent book), developed a new grand strategy loosely based on economic interdependence theory, as I’m sure many of you are aware of. I won’t go into much detail here, but I’ll give a brief, very generalized, overview of his idea. You can read more about it […]

One of the most vocal opponents of the Vietnam war, Mark O. Hatfield, a man labeled the “conscience of the Senate” has thrown his support behind both President Bush and the Iraq war. Strange days Posted by scottm at 01:01 AM

In an interesting article from Vanderbilt Hustler, a speaker from Genzyme Corporation urges students, especially ethnically Jewish students, to have themselves genetically screened for hereditary diseases. “For people in general to get screened for genetic problems in advance before having children is important,” Baer said. He urged Jewish students to get tested since they are […]

Mary Wakefield reviews The Naked Woman: a Study of the Female Body by Desmond Morris The Naked Woman doesn’t contain enough ideas to stand alone as a science book, nor are the photographs quite good enough for coffee tables.There are photographs? Posted by jeet at 11:14 AM

[Crossposted from GeneticFuture.org] – What do lightning and bacteria have to do with one another? Quite a bit, it turns out… Global Gravy To begin with, lightning and bacteria share the important job of providing the fundamental food for all of life on Earth: fixed nitrogen. Plants eat the nitrogen, animals eat the plants, and […]

Long ago, when I made a post on Heroes and Villains, [000188] someone suggested I should deal with some more recent examples. I remembered this recently when there was a discussion of John Rawls and his famous Theory of Justice. This prompted me to take another look at the book and set out some thoughts […]

Political post read it in the extended entry -A soldier home relaxing from the Iraq war was savagely beaten by a person opposed to the war. -In Duluth Bush signs are disappearing at a frightening rate. -Bush supporters are scared to put out signs or bumper stickers for fear of physical retaliation. I was thinking […]

In an earlier post one commentor mentioned the “overlapping territories of biology in terms of hbd, and history.” Eh, well, that post had little to do with human biodiversity, that is, intergroup differences. Rather, I was focusing on what I perceived to be a human universal. This has happened before on this blog, all biologistic […]

My post Up from ignorance elicited a lot of good responses. First, I would like to acknowledge that my reaction (and formulation of a “solution”) was framed by the commentor on Winds of Change, and my perception of his character or intellectual life, or, more properly, the hint of a character that I perceive to […]

Apparantly many people are. It’s notable that you can either be born a non-taster or become one through high consumption of Capsaicin. I wonder what the population percent is for different continents? Addendum from Razib: Here are my previous related posts, Genetics of taste, PTC taste, balancing selection? and PTC, part II. From what I […]

Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, former commander of the 101st Airborne Division and now commander of the Multinational Security Transition Command in Iraq (and perhaps the smartest and most competent commander we have over there, not to mention a person who I am a pretty big fan of) has a very good editorial in Sunday’s […]

Tha Beeb has posted an eight-image photo journal about the Yezidis (i.e. Kurds who resisted conversion to the religion of their Muslim conquerors).BBC NewsYezidis are an ancient, pre-Islamic sect of uncertain origin. LexicOrientResearches [sic] believe that the Yazidi creed has elements from Zoroastrianism, Manicheism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Justin Huggler, “Hell’s Angels”, The Independent, 2003 […]

Richard Dawkins has a long piece in The Prospect on the issue of race (based on a section of his new book The Ancestor’s Tale : A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution). Two points: He rejects Lewontin’s Fallacy (more here).He avoids the full implications of some of the statistical assertions he is making about […]

Randall Parker already caught this as of this posting, it appears. In an astonishing report from the left-leaning BBC News, the brother of Thabo Mbeki, Moeletsi Mbeki, has come out roaring against Robert Mugabe and stated, “The average African is poorer than during the age of colonialism. In the 1960s African elites/rulers, instead of focusing […]

This article highlights a changing trend in medical science, the realization that men and women are physiologically different, respond to diseases differently, and get diseases at different rates. A quote from this doctor is good news; “Women are different than men, not only psychologically (but) physiologically, and I think we need to understand those differences,” […]

For the aphoristically minded: Men created civilization…to impress women. Posted by razib at 07:25 PM

The U-California system voted to raise the admissions criteria to having X > 3.0 GPA. The reason? Too many people in the California School system have a GPA higher than the current minimum of 2.8. Quick, before reading the rest of the article, can you guess the protestors’ argument? Posted by A. Beaujean at 07:09 […]

lindenen:Man. Our diet is so crappy. I will be the first to admit that, serendipitously lazy yet nutritious dishes* aside, mine is too. There was a debate a few months back that, in a nutshell, pitted absolute standards of living against relative standards of living. The libertarian gourmand Waddling Thunder contributed, “It’s indisputably cheaper to […]

etrusco:Oh you heretic! Ricotta? Bechamel IS an integral part of lasagna….damn americans…;) Re: The following article I’d bet good money that what happened to Greek moussaka happened to Italian lasagna. Hegemony, colonization, blahblahblah… Judith Weinraub, “Back to the Classics”, The Washington Post, 2004 August 11. [In] 1896, when Athens hosted the first modern-day Olympic Games…the […]