Martin and Bakker you seem to know about. I have been binge-reading the genre since I discovered these two, because there are good books out there. 
 
Next up is Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora. It's completely harmless, nowhere near Martin's ambition in storytelling or characterisation, and nowhere near Bakker's worldbuildling and subtext. But it's such a great read. The most enjoyable book I've read in many years. 
 
Much too late I read Pullman's His Dark Materials. If I had read those at 14, they would have changed my world. Also, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay is a great book. A mainstream novel and not typically fantasy (except for one teeny-weeny detail, which maybe makes the book "magical realism" or something like that), but many fantasy readers enjoy it a lot.

Razib, could you spell this out for those of us who come here mainly to learn something (rather than read a rant)? The sentences "First LCT, then..." and the paragraph starting "Quite common?..." seem to presuppose understanding of a broader picture, and some agreement of mine with a conclusion that I am sure is obvious to you, but where I frankly don't even understand the dichotomy.

Sweden, but with better food.

Thanks for the Dehaene et al. paper, I had not seen that. I agree with you assessment of NS vs. MG, even though the latter is a pretty nice pop sci book. 
 
By the way, if I remember correctly, at least one of the authors (Dehaene) does not seem to subscribe to the Race and Intelligence orthodoxy of this blog.

Raz: (1) Who would want it to end? Next Dunk & Egg novella Real Soon Now. In the mean time, read R. Scott Bakker's [i]Prince of Nothing[/i] trilogy. It's done; I just started volume III. More than enough connections to this blog, by the way, with the Dunyain eugenics programme resulting in Kellhus, who is some kind of Nietschean super-Ashkenazi. (2) ::shrugs:: Yes. You get used to it.

Unabashed leftie here, even by European standards. I don't see any conflict between that and reading GNXP, especially Razib. Most of this blog is a slap in the face for creationist and anti-scientists, whether they are left or right. 
 
Like others said, the posts on American immigration politics or Islam on this blog I hardly even register.

The linked article is about air pollution in large cities. 
 
The captions are: Sotpartiklarna (gulfärgade) har tagit sig in genom luftvägarna och ansamlas i lungblåsorna - alveolerna - (violetta). "The pollution particles (yellowish) have entered the respiratory system and collect in the alveolas (violet)" 
 
En vit blodkropp från kroppens immunförsvar (färgad i blått) försöker attackera sotpartiklarna och äta upp dem. "A lymphocyte (coloured blue) tries to attack the pollution particle to eat it." 
 
Det är bara de allra minsta partiklarna i luftens föroreningar som lyckas ta sig så långt ned i lungorna "Only the smallest particles in the air pollution manage to get this deep into the lungs.

Besides Othello, another famous Moor in Western culture is Monostatus in Mozart's Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), who is clearly Black.  
 
German Wikipedia has a better Moor article than English has, you can go there just for the pictures of some moors, for example in old sigils or the current Pope's. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohr.

Star Trek Voyager, Season 2: Threshold. (http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-2/threshold.html) 
 
Janeway and Paris, due to some warp accident have their DNA changed and consequently *devolve* over the rest of the episode, turning into newts. That's wrong on so many levels.

Interesting question. 
 
I find that I cannot do even very simple math (like undergraduate combinatorics) after a single glass of whiskey. (Sometimes I try to grade exercises in the evenings, and always find that my brain simply doesn't work at that level after a wee bit of alcohol.) 
 
Pretty much any other intellectual activity works fine with a glass of single malt, like reading books. I suspect that not all IQ-correlated traits are hit equally. But my "do maths proofs" centre sure shuts down after the tiniest quantity.