Links for you. Science:
Agriculture Linked to DNA Changes in Ancient Europe
US Government To Officially Recognize GWAS As A Religious Belief (funny)
The Dark Matter Metaphor in Biology (excellent)
Hunting for DNA in Doggerland, an Ancient Land Beneath the North Sea
Why So Blue, Tarantulas? Many tarantulas are one particular shade of vivid blue, and no one knows why.
Other:
ISIS Wants a Clash of the Civilizations: Let’s Not Give In
The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money
Adolph Reed: Identity Politics Is Neoliberalism
From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
Loaded Dice
The Costs of Equal Opportunity in a Neoliberal Economy
Why I’m For Bernie Sanders
In DC, public housing tenants forced out, then homes flipped (someone needs to follow the money here; I suspect corruption is involved)
What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather
“It was no accident that some people had the ability to pursue opportunities to make their lives better in Washington, DC and others had their hopes and dreams dashed”
Donald Trump Is Winning Because He Tells the Best Ghost Stories
Huge Drop In Metro Train Customer Satisfaction
The Powder Keg: The seething racial resentment of the Obama era is of an altogether different kind
Bad Metro reliability is driving riders away. WMATA has a few ideas to get them back.
Tough Things
A Victory, However Small
When low-income Republicans learn who pays the estate tax, support increases dramatically (they basically become Democrats)
CUNY Faculty Authorizes a Strike Vote
How the Planned Parenthood Attack Could Reverse the Politics of Abortion
mikethemadbiologist
That article about Jenner and Dolezal is an ignorant piece of trash. The author doesn’t understand the biology of trans people & doesn’t seem to grasp the concept that being black in America is about more than genes.
I’d be interested to hear more about the biology of trans people. Frankly, I thought that the point of the article/essay was that “gender” and “race” are both cultural constructs, but we assume that gender has a kind of flexibility or mutability that race lacks. Race is certainly about more than genes, but so is gender, no?