Monthly Archives: February 2015
Who moved my heritability, and why should you care?
If I may be allowed to riff on Spencer Johnson’s very interesting title: ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ let’s have a go at teasing apart a phenomenon gathering some serious interest among geneticists, and others concerned with heritability and why it so often seems to have gone missing. Missing heritability has stormed to the front of […]
Dead Squirrels Society
With apologies to Robin Williams et al. (and, apparently, someone on Facebook)… Many years ago our family shared quarters with a cat. I’m of a mind that no one ‘owns’ a cat. They share our space – as much a courtesy on their part as anything. Anyway, said cat would from time to time show […]
On a theory of relativity
Research results are mostly relative. Einstein gets credit for a Theory of Relativity, and he was a pretty clever guy, but just about every notion we consider is somehow compared with or relative to something else. Indeed I often point out that you don’t know beautiful until you’ve seen ugly. A concept of cold is […]
Gulliver's Pulse 
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