So I’ve been contacted by a press agent for Pop!Tech, an annual ‘thought’ leadership summit convening next week in Camden Maine. Seems like there’s a lot of these sorts of summits happening. Normally I’d blow off sharing this news with you because this site is not a free for all posterboard of conference promotions and [...]
October 17, 2007
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza’s Interview and Pardis Sabeti in Nature
Right on the coat tails of Jon’s post on discussing race comes an interview with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a really distinguished and now emeritus population geneticist from Stanford, in Nature News. His work has been very controversial because he has consistently resisted the notion that ‘race’ has any useful biological meaning.
His work has been outlined [...]
October 17, 2007
Bernard Wood at University of Colorado Boulder on October 27th, 2007
Bernard Wood who you may know already, and if you don’t he’s a colleague of Richard Leakey and one of the most published paleoanthropologists out there, will be talking at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Saturday, October 27th, 2007. It will be a free lecture.
The title of his presentation, “Recent Advances in Our [...]
