One of my colleagues at another university mentioned to me that she had been going through statisticians at an alarming rate. She quipped that she never thought of ‘spawning’ one! My daughter Kristin (middle) is an instructor at West Point and my favorite statistician and my daughter Karen (on the Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: changing brains for the better “The study reflects a major transition in the focus of neuroscience from disease to well being, says first author Richard Davidson, professor of psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The brain is constantly changing in response to environmental factors, Read more…
Here’s part of the write up: “This family research team – sisters Karen Freberg, Kristin Graham, and mother Laura Freberg – enjoy “dressing” for their poster presentations each year at APS Conventions. Last year, they wore Slytherin (of Harry Potter fame) shirts for their study of CEOs and psychopaths, which Read more…
Here is what i am reading today: population genetics and shared ancestries “In a paper titled “The History of African Gene Flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines and Jews,” published in PLoS Genetics, HMS Associate Professor of Genetics David Reich and his colleagues investigated the proportion of sub-Saharan African ancestry present Read more…