The two genes MAO-A and 5-HTT have drastically different effects on male and female behavior, according to Swedish researchers at Uppsala University. Major Swedish daily “Svenska Dagbladet” reports: Gene variants that in a given environment lead to alcoholism, depression or antisocial behavior in boys have the opposite impact on girls. And vice versa. In the […]

So, they are here. Moral of story: Obey the laws of physics kids! With no further ado – the winners: Hammer of Doom: A Brazil man tried to disassemble a missile by car, and by sledgehammer… Copper Kite String: Precautions must be taken to avoid sudden electrocution… High on Life: Four feet found protruding from […]

Traffic is a major killer all around the world. Still, some places have a worse reputation than others when it comes to reckless driving. Luckily, a new study goes beyond mere prejudice in detailing how accident prone various immigrant groups are here in good ol’ Sweden. Short version: The Middle East and North Africa take […]

It appears that Robert “Bowler” Putnam is ready to publish his book on the effects of diversity: From the Financial Times: A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University’s Robert Putnam, one of the world’s most influential political scientists. His research shows that the more […]

Some encouraging gene therapy news in Science: Cancer Regression in Patients After Transfer of Genetically Engineered LymphocytesUsing a retrovirus encoding a T cell receptor, we report here the ability to specifically confer tumor recognition by autologous lymphocytes from peripheral blood. Adoptive transfer of these transduced cells in fifteen patients resulted in durable engraftment at levels […]

Once again into the breach, etc. Derbyshire, when responding to the latest creationist article published in National Review (link), makes this observation: It’s a wearying business, arguing with Creationists. Basically, it is a game of Whack-a-Mole. They make an argument, you whack it down. They make a second, you whack it down. They make a […]

The Swedish government, a world leader in gender equity, decided last year to ban bars and restaurants from enforcing different ages of admittance for men and women. Up until then it was commonplace to allow women to enter at, say, age 20, while the men had to wait until they were 22 or so to […]

John Derbyshire, the firestarter extraordinaire of National Review is at it again. This time, it’s a pretty conventional rerun of the good ol’ genetics vs. environment parenting cagematch. What is less conventional is the candidness of the Derb’s opponent: Jonah Goldberg. Derbyshire states: To take your last point first: Are you suggesting that if I […]

I take a guilty pleasure in reading the work of creationists and intelligent design proponents. I can’t really get worked up over them, even if I try – I just find it a relaxing pastime. Perverted, I know. (Make no mistake, I use Darwinism as one of my litmus tests for reasonableness, but I can’t […]

The BBC reports on a new study of Neolithic injuries: A survey of British skulls from the early part of the New Stone Age, or Neolithic, shows societies then were more violent than was supposed. Blunt instruments such as clubs were responsible for most of the trauma. If this can be seen as news is […]

I made a recent post on male-female drowning disparities in maritime accidents. As the subject generated a whooping 51 comments, let’s follow up that blogging success with a new study on the black-white Drowning Gap: The findings, published in the American Journal of Public Health, not only confirm past research showing that a large number […]

In a recent post, Steve Sailer quoted an unnamed feminist as explaining the high proportion of women surviving the Titanic disaster with: women having more body fat. Better to float and survive in the cold with. To establish if there is any truth to this thesis, it can be interesting to compare the Titanic to […]

Seems like a Jersey principal was instructed to cheat on state tests. Principal Joseph Carruth was riding down the slow, paneled elevator at Camden’s district office, ready to cave in to pressure from a superior who he says had just given him a tutorial on how to cheat on state tests. “My head is spinning,” […]

Turns out all housewives aren’t complete pill-popping wrecks. Go figure. Here are the figures, published in this month’s issue of the journal Social Forces: 52% of wives who don’t work outside the home reported they were “very happy” with their marriages, compared with 41% of wives in the workforce. The more traditional a marriage is, […]

Just thought this tidbit from The Corner, by Tom Bethell* was interesting: “Incidentally, this criticism, that Darwinism amounts to the retelling of Just-So Stories, was brilliantly made in the 1970s by Richard Lewontin of Harvard, now emeritus.” *The author of “The politically incorrect guide to science” PS.Sweden just won the Olympic Hockey Gold!!!! Whohoooooo! :P […]

This is the most breathtaking example of multiculturalism in action I have encountered in quite some time, as well as breaking news: The Swedish security police (SAPO) intervened last night against the site of far-right political party Sverigedemokraterna (sd), getting their Internet provider to shut down their site (www.sverigedemokraterna.se). As far as I have been […]

For those of you who have ever wondered about what tangible effects “structural discrimination” might have on disadvantaged groups, here is an excellent example. This racist (according to the US justice department, and the justice department doesn’t lie, no?) police academy admittance test is a major factor in ensuring that “about 85 percent of white […]

I was a bit taken aback by seeing Yahayist Mustafa Akyol published at National Review Online. While NRO is frequently predictable and hackish, they are rarely outright nutty. Akyol even holds up the infamous “Wedge Document” as a great achievement of the Intelligent Design movement: That’s why something called the Wedge Document, although horrifying to […]

Steve Sailer has posted a reader summary of the Pinker lecture on the Cochran, Hardy and Harpending paper. You can find it here. Your Lying Eyes has an even more extensive report on the lecture, which you can find here. Excerpt: “Though the moderator thanked him for a very ‘even-handed’ presentation on a controversial topic, […]

“Are there large numbers of covertly “fascistic” people in the U.S.?” asks PolSci professor Alan Wolfe over at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Or, put in a more academic fashion, should the old Frankfurterian study “The Authoritarian Personality” be rehabilitated? Wolfe proceeds to answer in the affirmative. And how could one come to any other […]