From the the Dept. of News Everyone Needs to Know.
Interesting article comparing the lives of President Obama and Sarah Palin.
Nice description of how they come up with global warming numbers which doesn’t leave one with a great deal of confidence in their predictions.
More from the Vitamin D front.
The Rise and Fall of Liberalism (via HooverInstitution) Pretty interesting discussion of why the Kennedy assassination was the event which led to the ascendency of the ashamed of America left.
Interesting article about why the human genome project hasn’t produced any cures. What was interesting to me is what it says about social science stuff that relies on genetics for proof. Things like the genetic origins of intelligence and homosexuality come to mind.Here;s a quote: ”Gattaca got it totally wrong,” says Bryan Walser, CEO of gene-discovery company Perlegen Sciences, in Mountain View, California. “In the movie, genes have 100% penetration,” meaning that if you have a flawed gene, it’s certain you’ll get the disease it’s associated with. For most major common diseases, he explains, specific genes are almost never associated with more than a 20% to 30% increased chance of getting sick. Indeed, the notion that a small number of genes represents a large component of the risk for a particular disorder has simply turned out to be untrue for almost all major illnesses. And the weakness of these correlations extends to other attributes as well. The gene most strongly linked to intelligence accounts for less than 0.4% of the observed variation, while the top six intelligence genes together predict 1% of the variation. A 2009 study of about 6,000 people came up with a technique for predicting a person’s height by looking at the 54 height-related genes; the results turned out to be one-tenth as accurate as averaging the heights of both parents and adjusting for sex, a technique introduced in 1886 by statistician Sir Francis Galton.
Okay, not withstanding the goofy photo, this blog post about Moslems in Dearborn Michigan was somewhat disturbing.
Pretty awesome story.
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Christians criminally charged for arguing with Moslem in England not Saudi Arabia.
This was pretty good. Here’s a blurb:
Hang on a second. It has now been 51 weeks since Obama was elected president, and more than nine months since he took office, and he’s just now getting around to asking the “questions . . . that have never been asked”?
But that’s not really fair to Obama. After all, he has a busy schedule, what with golf games and pitching the International Olympic Committee and date nights and Democratic fund-raisers and health care and the U.N. Security Council and Sunday morning talk shows and saving the planet from global warming and celebrating the dog’s birthday and defending himself against Fox News and all.
Muy interesante.
