Around the web:

"A gene called dysbindin-1 (DTNBP1) may be tied to intelligence, scientists report in Human Molecular Genetics... "While our data suggests the dysbindin gene influences variation in human cognitive ability and intelligence, it only explained a small proportion of it — about 3 percent," researcher Anil Malhotra, M.D., says in a news release." CBS News. Finding IQ genes has proven slow going. The brain is awfully complicated, so there are presumably an awful lot of brain genes, so getting a big enough sample size to find a statistically significant effect of a single gene is expensive. We'll see in the future if this one pans out.

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The Opinionator offers uncommon common-sense on selecting immigrants.

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Back in April Steve Burton at Right Reason put the immigration situation in a broader pan-American context.

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A reader writes:

The Law & Order franchise's hunt for the Great White Defendant was in prime form on last night's episode of Special Victims Unit. The episode initially seemed to be heading into dangerous waters, actually daring to depict a wealthy white girl as the victim of an assault by two Black youths. Such a distortion of reality (Imagine, Blacks victimizing Whites!) did not persist for long, however. The poor Black kids were merely retaliating against an earlier attack by the true source of urban violence, upper-middle class white teens. Can't wait to see the ripped from the headlines Duke lacrosse episode.

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