Anthropology Carnival: Four Stone Hearth

Carnival Time
Including this interesting ditty:
Eric Johnson wonders whether schizophrenia-associated genes were under selection because they increase shamanic visions:
What if, [Sapolsky] wondered, schizophrenia maintained itself in human populations because of selection for schizotypal personalites? As luck would have it, for a hundred years anthropologists had observed such individuals thriving in nearly every society they [...]

Debate over Sucide Rates in Teens and Anti-Depressants

From the NYT
Last week, leading psychiatric researchers linked a 2004 increase in the suicide rate for children and adolescents to a warning by the Food and Drug Administration about the use of antidepressants in minors. The F.D.A. warning, the researchers suggested, might have resulted in severely depressed teenagers going without needed treatment.
hat tip: Neurophilosophy

4% of Iraqi Population Killed

A new survey says upwards of 1.2 million Iraqi civilians have been killed since the start of the war.  That’s about 4% of their population.

On Ralph Ellison

Over at The Proletarian.
Mr. Yaffe also states “when Harlem erupted in racial turbulence, the invisible man hid in a basement with his ‘gin, jazz, and dreams.’” That’s not true. On the contrary, when the Invisible Man hears about the rioting, he takes a cab up to Harlem, walks through the streets and confronts Ras. While [...]

Liberal Colleges? Maybe Not.

The Hiring, then Firing of Erwin Chemerinsky for the deanship of the new UC Irvine law school.
This is a disgraceful way to treat Erwin Chemerinsky, a very fine legal scholar. It is bad enough that Drake fired him in what can only be described as an act of cowardice. Now he must go on an [...]

Neo-Conservatives not Conservative Enough on Iraq

Hat tip: the Daily Dish