Posts with Comments by lkjlkj

Not genes and not environment

  • what proportion of twin differences are due to a few (relatively) random events that crystalize into large scale differences versus a constant stream of stochastic events nudging them apart.  
     
    yes, quantifying the dimensionality of the underlying stochastic process.  
     
    it will be good to take a second look at these reporters transplanted into hsp mutants -- the ones which have reduced buffering of developmental noise...
  • Battle of the disciplines

  • Doug and Bill are old news :) 
     
    Who cares about genetics or biochemistry...bioinformaticists are the laziest and most productive :) 
     
    http://llama.med.harvard.edu/publications/Wong_TIG_2005_in_press.pdf
  • Not a “paradox” at all

  • I await Harper's snide deconstruction of Islam -- you know, all those ignorants who don't realize that "death to Israel/America/Britain" isn't written in the Koran.
  • Religion in public life

  • Of course there is a difference--numbers  
     
    There is also another difference.
  • The “concept” of a “religion”

  • most blacks aren't criminals  
     
    true. but 1/3 of black males are in prison. and black criminality is more of a true generalization than german anti-semitism, today at least.
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