{"id":33190,"date":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-march-25th-2011-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:53","slug":"friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-march-25th-2011-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-march-25th-2011-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fluff \u2013 March 25th, 2011 | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6348 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_FF3.png\" alt=\"FF3\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>1) First, a <strong>post from the past<\/strong>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10-questions-for-jim-crow.php\">10 questions for Jim Crow<\/a>. Arguably the doyen of modern population geneticists. Take a look at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lab.genetics.wisc.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?id=102\">who he&rsquo;s had as graduate students or post-docs<\/a>, and there&rsquo;s a high probability there is someone you know of, you&rsquo;ve met, or you know of by reputation (at least if you have some association with pop gen).<\/p><p>2) <strong>Weird search query of the week<\/strong>: &ldquo;hot arab ass.&rdquo;<\/p><p>3) <strong>Comment of the week<\/strong>, in response to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/03\/puzzling-the-odds-of-disease-risk\/#comment-61035\">&ldquo;Puzzling the odds of disease risk&rdquo;<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>What would be interesting (and very simple) to see is this:<\/p><p>Take DNA of all the dead people with good medical history and see if aggregate of all the various risks predicts time and\/or cause of death with any reliability. $200K buys N=2,000 which is not unreasonable for entities that have access to lots of dead peoples&rsquo; DNA.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>4) And finally, your weekly <strong>fluff fix<\/strong>:<br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_green.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_green.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10535\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_ECksmi8bMus\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/49a92_YgmWWxOiytQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) First, a post from the past: 10 questions for Jim Crow. Arguably the doyen of modern population geneticists. Take a look at who he&rsquo;s had as graduate students or post-docs, and there&rsquo;s a high probability there is someone you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-march-25th-2011-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}