Gordon's Notes

I knew Google Trends was “a thing”, but it had fallen off my radar. Until I wondered if Craigslist was going the way of Rich Text Format ....

Via Funny Times  [1], I came across allegations of a confident eugenics program (emphases mine): NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News Beijin...

Reconciliation for May 2011 ... Elderly Drivers Fail a Test (NYT) and Some Older Workers, Pressured to Quit, Fight Back (NYT): Why raising...

I remember a cartoon of Spartan life that I learned as a child. I don't recall thinking about it much further until this week's IOT ...

In the 2003 In Our Time explored the cultural history of war: BBC - Radio 4 - The Art of War . During the programme, one of the guests men...

My generation gave the world Bill Clinton and George Bush. The first was, and is, a brilliant man with deep flaws. The second is flawed to t...

Humanity should be brought up before the Canine High Tribunal .. Pedigree dogs plagued by disease ... Scientists at Imperial College, London...

This is as inevitable as the rising sun ... Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters : ... British police want to collect DNA samples fr...

Many science fiction stories and movies have featured clones created as backup organ donors. Just saying (emphases mine) ... Mature Human Em...

FuturePundit: Pregnancy Surrogacy Outsourced To India . No surprises, unfortunately. I'm tagging this one as " organ trade ", ...

I used to think that one good feature of the religious right was that they might slow the day we harvest clones for organs. Then came the eu...

James D. Watson appears to be a member of the Bell Curve club . He's also very old, and I suspect his own IQ is nowhere near where it o...

I was thinking this morning, as I often do, of brain and mind , evolution , schizophrenia , and autism ( more autism related posts ), parti...

The NYT has a long article on Williams syndrome. There's a lot in there, as noted by "bestyoucanbe" (emphases mine): Be the Be...

A few years ago race was on the ropes, but it's back and looking as though it will persist, though possibly with a new name. The base &...

From Jeffrey Sachs' 4th Reith Lecture on alleviating poverty in Africa ... BBC Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2007 - Lecture 4: Economic Sol...

Down syndrome will become very rare within US schools by 2020. Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus - New York Times ...About 90 p...

My limited recollection is that between 1950 and 1980 the province/nation of Quebec switched from a theocratic government, devout Catholicis...

Saletan's article says it well . We've made a de facto peace with eugenics, it will become an increasingly large part of our lives o...

It's been a while since the heyday of European eugenics , but these days that ancient spirit is rising almost everwhere. Among the commu...