The News of Iceland web site reports: New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives The Icelandic population is very small and all Icelanders are related. But yet, it is big enough so everyone doesn’t know one another. This means that each and every Icelander that is in a relationship, is dating a relative. […]
Tag: genetics
Genetics and ever so much, more or less, of choral singers
This research study tries to encompass many worlds of knowledge or possible knowledge, or wished-for knowledge: “AVPR1A and SLC6A4 Polymorphisms in Choral Singers and Non-Musicians: A Gene Association Study,” Andrew P. Morley, Madan Narayanan, Rebecca Mines, Ashraf Molokhia, Sebastian Baxter, Gavin Craig, Cathryn M. Lewis, Ian Craig, PLoS ONE 7(2), 2012: e31763 The authors, at […]
Genetics & the hair of Steven Pinker, LFHCfS
The Pharyngula blog discusses genetics and its relation to LFHCfS member Steven Pinker: Steve Pinker examined his own genome, and discovered that his genes said he was predisposed to be red-haired and at high risk for baldness. If you’ve seen Steve Pinker [and if you haven’t you can remedy that by watching the video here], you […]
The beard-ome & lab aesthetics
This five-minute video conjures up an imaginary genetics of the beard. Best of all, it shows the aesthetics of everyday life in a modern major general laboratory: