Hot on the heels of the Summers controversy, researchers at the University of Heidelberg have found a “hidden” stretch of a half million base pairs on the Y chromosome. As Nature News reports: The DNA that makes up the chromosome is highly repetitive, making it very difficult to sequence. But in June 2003, researchers in […]

The Oscar nominations are just out. For a full list go here. In the Best Actor category the nominations are Leo Di Caprio, Jamie Foxx, Johnny Depp (Neverland), Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby), and Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda). In the Best Actress category the nominations are Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Annette Bening, Catalina […]

I read this article in the New England Journal of Medicine the other week. Researchers have been able to synthesize something close to Spanish Influenza and use it to infect mice. Hopefully nobody working on this sort of thing has a grudge against society. Or is going through a bad breakup. Posted by Thrasymachus at […]

Kimberly Swygert points me to one of the top 20 prom dresses this season, and like her, I realize I most be old because there’s no way, no how, no daughter of mine would ever wear this dress to a high school prom. I suppose, though, that this was inevitable after the introduction of thongs […]

David Boxenhorn is nominated in multiple categories at Israellycool, host of the Jewish/Israeli Blog Awards. His post from gnxp, Maladapted to Our Habitat is nominated for best individual post, and his Valley posts for best series. You can vote once a day, here. David’s blog, Rishon-rishon is also nominated for Best Overall, Best New, Best […]

Back in July of 2003, Frank Laczko (of the International Organization for Migration) wrote the interesting article “Europe Attracts More Migrants from China”. Laczko’s article argues that the PRC-citizenship population of Europe is low, divided roughly as described in the below chart: Substantial evidence seems to suggest a significant undercount. The data for France is […]

As I noted a few days ago The New York Times Magazine sent an intrepid journalist to chronicle the rise of Islamism in Bangladesh. This story is getting some play on the web, Winds of Change and Little Green Footballs have both pointed to it. If you want a Razib-o-centric view on this issue…read on. […]

A week ago, news.google.ca began turning up links to an interesting paper: Refik Erzan, Umut Kuzubas and Nilufer Yildiz’s “Growth and Immigration Scenarios for Turkey and the EU” (PDF format), written for the Centre for European Policy Studies. The authors make the compelling argument that even if Turkey’s bid for European Union membership is junked, […]

In the previous post I outlined the concept of ethnic genetic interests, as advocated by Frank Salter, and offered some general philosophical objections to it. Here are some more technical comments: 1. Salter frequently talks about the ‘distinctive genes’ of an ethnic group or race, but very few alleles are confined to a single race. […]

A group of Israeli researchers have a very interesting paper available as an advance online publication from Molecular Psychiatry. Noting that two dopaminergic genes (DRD4 and the microsatellite variant DRD5) have been implicated in ADHD and antisocial behavior, the authors hypothesized that “if one variant contributes to antisocial traits, then conversely the absence of this […]

A week ago a story broke suggesting that a portion of Iceland’s population possessed an genetic inversion which conferred upon them possibly greater fertility & lifespan. The authors suggested that this inversion has been selected for in the past 10,000 years and that its separation from the modal type occurred on the order of several […]

I shamelessly stole the title from Mr. Sun’s blog because, well, I couldn’t come up with anything better. He points to a Nursing school admitting their first blind student: With support from the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), Melissa Resnick of Merrick, New York, will become the first blind nursing student at Nassau Community […]

In comments over at Debunkers they link to Tom Lehrer’s comedy bit on New Math. I wonder what Tom would make of Anti-Racist Math. For a good chuckle go listen to classic Tom Lehrer. Posted by TangoMan at 06:21 PM

(Cross-posted at my site, Organic republican) Report on a South Asian, muslim, Norwegian born pop singer named Deeyah, whose slightly risgue style has angered enough muslims in Norway that she has fled to England for her own safety. Reading several reports on the subject of this singer and her plight, as well as watching some […]

I said I would return to the subject of Frank Salter‘s book On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethny and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration (Frankfurt, 2003). [Note 1] The key idea of the book is that every individual has a genetic interest in copies of his own ‘distinctive genes’ (Salter‘s phrase). Such copies are […]

The left in Europe is increasingly fining, incarcerating or banning opponents of the multi-cultural project. The most common offence is speaking out against immigration, homosexuality or Islam. With freedom of speech going the way of the Dodo for people who harbour politically incorrect thoughts on my side of the pond, readers of gnxp.com would be […]

New article out in the latest PS by I. Deary showing that individual differences in performance on chronometric tasks are highly related to mortality even after controlling for smoking, education, and social class. Related (Thanks to Scott) New study showing that High IQ mediates liklihood of suicide. Alex’s Comment It has been known for decades […]

The Next Islamist Revolution? is about the rise of Islamism & religious thuggery in Bangladesh. I will comment later, but for now, readers might be interested in Up to medievalism and En route back to normal life. Posted by razib at 06:05 PM

Perhaps there are still some skeptics on the topic of Anti-Racist Math, so for them I offer a glimpse into the holiest of holies, the sanctum of teacher preparation, the College of Education at the University of Florida and their course guide for, are you ready, Multicultural Mathematics Supplement & Study Guide. It looks to […]

Recap on our take: Common sense breaks out at Harvard, Sex follow up, Wollstonecraft’s legacy…., Summers at the Hub, Difference Day 1, Men, women and math…more, and more…., Welcome to the Madrassa – Summer’s Retraction, Estrogen Level Rising at Gene Expression and Men, women and math…even more…. Expect more. If you lose the first battle, […]