Healthy Obese People And Unhealthy Thin Ones

One of the main reasons that being fat (e.g. having high BMI) is bad for you is that it screws with your metabolism.  A new paper directly ...

Immortal Rats

Naked mole rats are rather ugly, but they age well . More specifically, they are the only mammal that doesn't appear to die of old age: ...

A Crazy Idea

"Bleeding hearts" want to reduce the suffering that animals experience in feedlots and the like. Other liberals think we should re...

Fragmentary Facts and Hypotheses About Identity And More

This post will proceed to set forth some facts and some factually supported theories that are related to each other, without necessarily ass...

Who Carries Guns? Does It Work?

The NRA is wrong on the fact and the bad policies it has advance kill thousands of Americans every year. People who carry loaded handguns ar...

ASGH 2017 Abstracts

The abstracts of the conference presentations at the American Society of Human Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida for 2017 which is cur...

Indigenous Peoples' Day

It is officially Indigenous Peoples' Day in Denver. (Accompanied by a snow storm and freezing temperatures following a 75 degree and sun...