Jason at Cephalopodcast.com challenged me to visit this site, sponsored by the New York Zoo, to create my “wild self.” It’s like one of those flip books where you mix and match body parts. As a biologist, such egregious phylogenetic cross-pollination bugs me a little bit, but darn, I like my new look.
2 comments October 18th, 2007
The co-discoverer of the double helix, James Watson, has once again placed his Nobel-icious foot in his mouth.
He was meant to give a talk today in Britain on his new book, but his appearance has been cancelled in the wake of remarks implying that people of African descent are genetically less intelligent than whites. He’s also been suspended by Cold Spring Harbor, which is perhaps a wee bit disingenuous of them, because he’s said many outre things before, and as far as I know they’ve never done anything about it.
The thing that surprises me most is not that he offended people, but that he’s now criticizing the genes of dark-skinned individuals. I thought he was on the other side - when I last saw him talk, he argued that pasty white women have inferior libidos. Oh, and that we should be genetically engineered to be prettier. What-ever. . .
1 comment October 18th, 2007
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