I’m really busy for another couple of days.
Well, maybe for another couple of months, but definitely for another couple of days.
First I thank Jason for taking up some of my slack at Darfur: An Unforgettable Hell on Earth.
Dieneke comments on “Breeding Between the Lines ” which sounds like a bad pop culture; bad science mix which might captivate some, but would hardly be worth the money spent.
I haven’t read it, and won’t be reading it unless one of those ” bookcrossers” leaves one lying around somewhere within my reach, but it’s out there.
The “about” the author is kind of funny.
After getting his degree in psychobiology, Alon Ziv went on to perform cutting edge research in the field of neuroscience. He has also served as president of a successful software company, and was a highly rated biology teacher at UCLA. He has lectured on the science of interracial mixing for the Biracial Family Network, the Hapa Issues Forum, Cornell University, and other organizations and colleges throughout the United States. Alon has written everything from academic papers to musical comedy. In fact, he won 1st Prize in the 2003 USA Songwriting Competition. He lives in Los Angeles. And no, he is not interracial.
I hope this guy sticks to songwriting in the future.
I’m still searching for his “cutting edge neuro science papers”.
If you find them direct me to them please.
My favorite quote today comes from the end of the Time Magazine article “Diving into the Gene Pool “.
“True identity, it seems, resides not in our genes but in our mind.”
I also can’t forget this cartoon. I saw it at Emboldened yesterday and stole it; they in turn stole it from the Daily Kos who happened to borrow it from John de Rosier. I would have left a comment congratualting the man on his rightonedness ( no not a real word) but he has that “sign in” thing going on.
I love it though, so it’s here.
That drawing says what really needs to be said.
Yeah what happened was bad. Yeah, the guys should be punished. But one death in the face of thousands just doesn’t deserve the attention it has garnered.
I’ll look for his papers; it doesn’t seem likely he won any kind of award for his scientific endeavers.
That’s a great quote and a great cartoon.
If I wasn’t so cheap I’d have my genes
investigated for fun.
Janke says to tell you those knees are ” disconcerting”.
That cartoon is great. It still amazes me which killings are newsworthy and which aren’t.
Also, you might want to check out Rosevibe. She has a story about bureacracy and its inefficiency that had me in stitches.
That is a great cartoon. When the Ramseys moved to Atlanta the only thing I felt about it was “great, now they’ll be on local tv too. There are definitely more important things to deal with and the cartoon picked a good one.
The thing about interbreeding seems interesting to me from this point of view: Hybrid vigor is real when used in domesticated populations like plants and animals but, frankly, stupid when applied to wild populations like, oh, humans. You always know when a human writes about breeding humans that he has a sexual abnormality he would like to explain via metaphor. That’s probably true of people who write musical comedies as well.
Nice quote, it is kind of expensive tohave that gene testing done ; that piece on the genes was intersesting.
There are things writtne based on fact and things written based on quasi fact with a little pop culture added in order to draw in the public. This looks like it could
be one of those things.
The last two lines of his bio
say sit all.
I think I would keep my documents that were “cutting edge” hidden. Great cartoon.
With regard to the whole JonBenet thing and real issues of the day being overlooked, namely the rampant genocide and rape of women and the like (yes, I am catcing up!), we live in a world where a bitch dared say, with regard to the pics I had up at the Daily Kos, that as long as the “husband” was “gentle” with his “11-year-old wife” then…
I am nauseous.
As for blogging popularity, who knew?
Yep, Emily is hot as well as sweet…
Well, being the mutt that I am I have my mind for my identity… were it up to my genes I’d be fucked!
hidden if I were him anyway.
love the cartoon, i rarely watch the tube; the pathology of a nation obessed with such bullshit makes me cringe.
except “weeds” of course and “bill maher “and “entourage” and “the daily” show and” the colbert report”
does the fact that i was kicked with one of those knees many times while jumping on trampolines make me special?
Oh to be kicked by such a knee.
The book does not sound like anything extremely scientific more like what you indicated with the pop culture reference and nothing I’d purhcase, but getting it free would be a different story.
The cartoon is perfection.
I just wish that little girl could R.I.P… it’s a shame that her death has become a media frinzy…
I read the excerpt at the Website. First of all, racial differences are very superficial and different from geographic distribution. Current evolutionary biology holds that the human population went through a bottleneck about 500,000 years (I think) ago, so we are all descended from very closely related ancestors.
It is well known that IQ tests measure cultural knowledge as well as intelligence, and the IQ “advance” is much more likely due to modern media, even though those are making us dumber, in my non-cutting-edge opinion.
coyote: makes ya laugh and makes you cry.
ego: I bet there is Viking blood there somewhere. a pseudo scientist feeding off the madness of the popular culture.
The knees are actually kind of banged up right now wit a few rather nasty looking bruises and cuts so they are disconcerting to me as well.
mojo: I will check it out on your recommendation as soon as I can. You all are keeping me busy here though.
Doug: A real scientific paper I could have appreciated but a pop culture piece has no interest to me.
jacob: I agree.
Leigh: I’m sure they are hidden as in non existent.
Mizzy Bohem: I think were all fucked anyway.
id: Maher starts Friday. You know I have never seen weeds i saw a review of it but have not had show for some time. I even missed the last episode of “queer as folk”.
Joe: absolute as always.
Shayna: she would if we would leave her alone and worry about the million other things that really matter at this exact time in history. The mess from Katrina still, our men in Iraq, our shitty educational system, the gender inequality which perpetrates aids .…I am still seeing seventy percent of the news on only the ramsey case. Poeple die all the time, little kids of all colors and ethnicities dies all the time in tragic ways. This is pure bull crap.
Ramsey is a sick exploitation case. It’s August, people like their news light or scandals. Apparently the mess from Katrina which could be a great one isn’t fun enough — or newspeople are running scared of the bush regime, after all The Times fuck up’s. They are however getting their first perfume columinst this weekend
I like light as much or more than anybody, but isn’t perfume the thing, people tell you that they’re allegeric to – anywhere even if you only have minimal perfume on?
He was probably an adjunct who got his neuro-science degree online. Probably did have a PHD in bio – but that’s just not sexy enough which goes back to the Jon Benet thing
Weirdso’s right of course, we’re all basically related to each other. Nothing else should matter.
Can I state for the record that the dawg’s last line, irrelevant as it is, had me really laughing
Cooper I was just trying to understand why people blog and why they do the things they do while blogging. Problem is it’s the least random sample in the world — but very helpful
You left a comment asking if I can put things in the side bar – yes, as long as it’s English or HTML. Then you said “put this” and it was invisible I guess.
Really want the Darfur candle. I might be off causes to give myself mental energy, but as long as I have a blog, its sidebar will look like the worlds longest billboard for just causes, and Darfur is something, that thanks to you, is on my mind — in a “I’m proud of Cooper and now Jason” way
Hey chica. Ooh…so that’s what you meant by thank you
Ah, my pleasure, hon. I should be able to add a bit more in the next few days (the 6 mil. gorilla is still undone at work and the natives are getting restless with half a library).
The Ziv thing is funny…and frightening.