As part of one of my several tangentially related projects, I'm crunching some numbers on the Miss Universe pageant, particularly the ...

View from our terrace in Barna, October 18, 2004. I photoshopped the purple color in, but otherwise it really was this ominous. You could se...

As part of my recent interest in what makes South Asians different on a phenotypic level, I've started perusing Sepia Mutiny every now...

Via Steve . The Washington Post reports that the hottest nabes in DC are not safe -- they attract robbers from other neighborhoods in searc...

In my post below on South Asian doublejointedness , there are three clips of brown girls breakin' it down. However, lest the reader conf...

To preview a more elaborate and annotated post either here or at GNXP on the topic of global variation in phenotypic hypermobility , I thou...

[Video at bottom. Girls dancing fully clothed, but semi-provocatively, so may not be SFW.] Something just occurred to me -- the reason that ...

I'm finishing up Crosby's Germs, Seeds, and Animals ( Guns, Germs, and Steel was checked out, but I figure the original scholarly ...

I wouldn't consider myself a Hispanophile, but the three and then nine months that I lived in Barcelona were eye-opening. Contrary to wh...