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18 votes
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What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the Universe, and everything
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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
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The blue flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
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The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
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How scientific taxonomy constructed the myth of race
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence
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Biosphere 2 - The lost history of one of the world’s strangest science experiments
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When giant scorpions swarmed the seas
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The Brain Scoop relaunch!
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Vaccinia
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We broke phosphorus: Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements
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That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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Forging Islamic science
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
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Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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What a Russian smile means - How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different
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The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health
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Turning milk into clothing
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
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The first two botanists who surveyed, and survived, the Colorado River
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History of transcendental numbers
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Ronald Reagan and the biggest failure in physics
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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
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How medieval thinkers foreshadowed modern physics in investigating the character of machines, devices and forces
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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The great American science heist
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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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What will the world look like in 250 million years? | Map Men
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A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
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Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
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The undying appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “death ray”
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A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
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Marie Curie's PhD thesis
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
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Chloroquine, past and present
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The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
7 votes