Open Thread, 6/15/2014
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I feel a little bad that the story in the MIT Technology Review had a photo which isn’t quite flattering for my son. So I thought I would post a better image, which you see above.
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that’s one hot l’il dude! congratulations:)
The grey comes with parenthood, I think. Be well. Be blessed!
After my daughter was born (when I was 30), my beard went from a few stray gray hairs to 50% white in about three years. I had always thought stories of excessive stress causing gray hair were old wives tales, and I knew given my family history I was going to go gray on the early side, but after the close linkage between fatherhood and graying I think there might be something the historic connection between stress and accelerated graying.
Oh, and your son looks lovely.
It’s perhaps to do with the fact that graying hair signals to the opposite sex that you’re no longer available.
fwiw, my children are very calm and easy. sleep has not been a major problem because they don’t cry in the middle of the night, etc. but yes, gotten more gray over the past few years.
Congratulations! What a sweet picture. He’s beautiful.
I was watching the NBA finals, and during a break in the action, the announcers/commentators were talking about Patty Mills, a player from Australia on the Spurs team. They said that there were two types of Aborigines, and his parents were from the different types. They referred to his dad as being a Torres Straight Islander type of Aborigine.
That’s Torres Strait, not Straight, LOL.
He be white. What’s up with that?
Ah I know that grey so well (of what hair I have left).
Great pic, handsome and adorably cute! Congratulations again Razib!
@7 – Torres Strait Islanders are Melanesian, distinct from Aborigines (and I mean phenotypically distinct). They are both classified as “indigenous” Australians, but if someone calls a TI “Aboriginal” in Australia, he’ll have a fight on his hands. There is a lot of mixing now, though, so Mills is nothing really special in that regard. Pre-European settlement, there appeared to be none, and no cultural exchange either. Strange.
@9 – “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal” have no genetic definition in Australia – it is strenuously and vociferously objected to by those groups. So you get lots of white ‘indigenous’ people these days. A couple of generations back, not so much.
I’m delighted to see my R1a cousin thriving. There are hints of an inner warlord.
why all the grey? Are you even 30?
I enjoyed reading the MIT Technology Review story. The article says that you were able to sequence placental material in a university sequencer. I’m interested in getting data from a whole genome sequence of myself. Do you have any recommendations for companies or universities or independent labs that I could pay to get a whole genome sequence done for an adult male?