This week the list is thin on real scientific content. Too much turkey...
Perhaps I am a little bit of a cell biologist at heart, but I find these review articles fascinating:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6163/1187
Back to the argument on genetics of intellectual ability and achievement.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v504/n7478/full/504032a.html
Funny how the author uses the GWAS study I highlighted back in June to support the idea that it's complicated. Who would have thunk it?
Now let's go on a little train wreck of thought on my favorite subject: genetics.
It turns out early humans had messy relationships worthy of daytime TV in the US:
http://www.nature.com/news/hominin-dna-baffles-experts-1.14294
This one has a really good quote: "genetics don't lie"
And it really doesn't (or "it don't" to stylistically keep up with the quote above):
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/justice/exonerated-prisoner-update-michael-morton/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
Perhaps not surprisingly, genetic evidence is not universally accepted:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7476/full/503342b.html
Naturally, testimony of "four male witnesses" trumps any other. Men don't lie. Just ask certain much admired former US President who left DNA evidence...
Of course, these rather conservative guys may have been simply upset after reading something like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/bigfoot-dna-proves-creature-exists-genetic_n_2199984.html
Monkey business is bigger in Texas...
Enough distractions, now stop blaming genetics for your lack of success and get back to work. Bad things happen to underachieving members of cartels.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_11_26/caredit.a1300260
If postdocs are drug mules and grad students are street dealers, then what are the undergrads?
Have a good weekend.
Perhaps I am a little bit of a cell biologist at heart, but I find these review articles fascinating:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6163/1187
Back to the argument on genetics of intellectual ability and achievement.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v504/n7478/full/504032a.html
Funny how the author uses the GWAS study I highlighted back in June to support the idea that it's complicated. Who would have thunk it?
Now let's go on a little train wreck of thought on my favorite subject: genetics.
It turns out early humans had messy relationships worthy of daytime TV in the US:
http://www.nature.com/news/hominin-dna-baffles-experts-1.14294
This one has a really good quote: "genetics don't lie"
And it really doesn't (or "it don't" to stylistically keep up with the quote above):
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/justice/exonerated-prisoner-update-michael-morton/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
Perhaps not surprisingly, genetic evidence is not universally accepted:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7476/full/503342b.html
Naturally, testimony of "four male witnesses" trumps any other. Men don't lie. Just ask certain much admired former US President who left DNA evidence...
Of course, these rather conservative guys may have been simply upset after reading something like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/bigfoot-dna-proves-creature-exists-genetic_n_2199984.html
Monkey business is bigger in Texas...
Enough distractions, now stop blaming genetics for your lack of success and get back to work. Bad things happen to underachieving members of cartels.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_11_26/caredit.a1300260
If postdocs are drug mules and grad students are street dealers, then what are the undergrads?
Have a good weekend.
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