Has anybody looked at the following article? I ran across it following a pointer from Arts & Letters Daily:

Rushton, J. P., & Jensen, A. R. (2005). Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, 235-294. (commentaries on this page)
The culture-only (0% genetic-100% environmental) and ( Read more... )

The Sunday Times - Britain
August 28, 2005

'Miracle mouse' can grow back lost limbsJonathan Leake, Science Editor ( Read more... )

Check out chessboard and Dragon Illusion!

I've made a copy of the Dragon if anyone wants to see it in real life. Very cool.

does anyone have a tape of this Friday's firefly/SG-1/SG atlantis/battlestar galatic episodes I can borrow? I managed to tape it with the mute button on... :-( :-(

I've been doing a lot of patent application reviewing/editing of late. It's an unavoidable occupational hazard of being paid to invent things ( Read more... )

I'm tentatively planning to host a barbecue picnic Sunday afternoon, July 24. (I'm going to reserve part of Rengstorff park's barbecue area, so I need to make a reservation fairly far in advance.)

Does anyone know of any conflicting events or reasons why I should choose a different date?

In business, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) act to correct bad management. Basically, if Acme widgets' management is making very poor decisions, perhaps due to the CEO's ego, speculators will borrow money, buy Acme widgets, replace the management, and then sell the company; assuming the market agrees that the new management is an improvement, they will ( Read more... )

awesome talk about discovery of vampirism (fiction)

In _Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto_, Chuck Klosterman includes a list of 23 Questions "I ask everyone I meet to decide if I can really love them"; his second question is ( Read more... )

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