Cultural History. Theology. Art. Getting drunk on Champagne and taunting my cat's gender identity.
This Harri Ramlakhan fellow and his squashes and tomatoes:
Booker T and the MGs
The Squid and the Whale. Last weekend I watched that documentary "Born Rich"... all about rich kids in NY. Yuck. Get it together rich folk! I don't care if you're loaded... that's awesome for you, but try not to be so repugnantly ignorant in your interactions with everyone else... and each other.
Planet Earth, BIG LOVE!!!!!!!!!
Wow! So exciting:Historians often assume that they need pay no attention to human evolution because the process ground to a halt in the distant past. That assumption is looking less and less secure in light of new findings based on decoding human DNA.............. Neither microcephalin gene turned up in Dr. Pritchard’s or Dr. Williamson’s list of selected genes, and other researchers have disputed Dr. Lahn’s claims. Dr. Pritchard found that two other microcephalin genes were under selection, one in Africans and the other in Europeans and East Asians.Even more strikingly, Dr. Williamson’s group reported that a version of a gene called DAB1 had become universal in Chinese but not in other populations. DAB1 is involved in organizing the layers of cells in the cerebral cortex, the site of higher cognitive functions.Variants of two genes involved in hearing have become universal, one in Chinese, the other in Europeans.The emerging lists of selected human genes may open new insights into the interactions between history and genetics. “If we ask what are the most important evolutionary events of the last 5,000 years, they are cultural, like the spread of agriculture, or extinctions of populations through war or disease,†said Marcus Feldman, a population geneticist at Stanford. These cultural events are likely to have left deep marks in the human genome.
Santiago Calatrava.