Horse Evolution Explained

Laelaps gets jiggy with the Horses

Sci-Fi Novel: The Bloodbaths, by Steve Libby

Steve Libby the sci-fi author who co-authors the online podcast Secret World Chronicle has just released his new book, The Bloodbaths, the first in the Aqua Pura Trilogy, through the small publisher SubAtomic Books.
Steve also happens to be a good friend of mine, and in light of that, I’m ordering you (nicely) to go check [...]

Dead From Online Gaming …

A Chinese man dies after playing online for 3 days straight … OK, so it wasn’t really the gaming, it was the not sleeping.  Seriously, how seriously can you take online games?

Human Variability, and the Problem of “Equality”: Dobzhansky

Dobzhansky in an essay from Current Anthropology (that I snagged from John Hawks):
Man is a highly variable polytypic and polymorphic species. The genetic variability affects behavioral traits no less than physiological and structural ones, and it is false to imagine that these three categories are clearly separable. The chief reasons why so many people are [...]

The Big Pull Out: Kissinger on Iraq, Fareed, and Luttwak’s response

Over at the Daily Dish.
He (Kissinger) wants troops there indefinitely to stabilize the three different de facto mini-states; and much more diplomacy. Fareed echoes some of this today – urging a drastic drawdown but maintaining residual forces to capitalize and help any regional political deals. A lot of one’s judgment on this is bound up [...]

Jewish Neo-Nazi’s? And More on the Brains of Conservatives/Liberals

From the Jeruselem post:
According to Eitam, people who harbored a hatred of Jews and a hatred of Israel in their hearts find a safe haven in Israel by taking advantage of a loophole in the Law of Return.
In the past, NU-NRP members have tried to advance bills that would revoke parts of the Law of [...]

Ron Paul on Border Control, Free Trade, and Mexican Trucking Companies

Ron Paul at Free Liberal:
The fact that this is being done in the name of free trade is disturbing. Free trade is not complicated, yet NAFTA and CAFTA are comprised of thousands of pages of complicated legal jargon. All free trade really needs is two words: Low tariffs. Free trade does not require coordination with [...]

Republicans Snubb Spanish Speaking Americans

(cross-posted @ freedom Democrats)
On Sept. 9th, The Dem’s engaged the first ever Spanish language debate, hosted by Univision. Two of the candidates, Gov. Richardson and Sen. Dodd, speak Spanish fluently, but, they were all translated to level the playing field.
This is a great gesture here in the west, where there is very large [...]

Should the Dem’s hurry to Confirm Michael Mukasey?

(Cross-posted @ Freedom Democrats)

The Justice Department has been in the ICU for some time. If I’m not mistaken (correct me if I am) the top 5 seats have been vacant for a while. This can’t be good for one of the most important branches in the executive.
President Bush has Nominated someone he feels [...]

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 [...]