<t>Quote You might be onto something. The crude interpretation of his world in hand-drawn symbols, the long sloping forehead, broad nostrils, the oral tradition of his race being wiped out by a climate catastrophe... it would explain a lot...Lol. I actually find his posts interesting and thought the...

any view on Neanderthal and others contributing today's gene pool anyone? JanDash maybe?

Any thoughts on the Out of Africa / Out of Africa again and again (Templeton 2002) debate? (in particular re the relevance (or the irrelevance) of mitochondrial Eve)

<t>Hamilton,I don t advocate anything. I am just quoting the conclusions of a famous article from a medecine Nobel prize winner.Unfortunately, as you ve just proved it, it has become taboo.Also, I should remind you that Germany was not the only country to have a eugenic programme.The USA sterelised ...

I don't really have time to get into all the mistakes you ve posted, but i d say the most shocking one is Humans got to be the dominant species because we produced a small number of relatively high quality offspring.

QuoteTinkering with the natural selection process could be the last clever thing we ever do ?are you saying medecine is the least clever thing we ve ever done?

We now have market data for delta = 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.9.I have two questions:1. How do you guys extrapolate between 0 and 0.1, and between 0.9 and 1?2. Do you find implied vol by iteration (start with, say ATM vol, find the delta, the vol, and carry on until the two vols are the same?)

<t>In industrial countries natural selection has basically stopped.Thanks to medecine, deleterious mutations are allowed to spread throughout the species.The consequence is that if we carry on like that (no intervention on genes + medecione) we will all be invalid. In a few centuries.The question is...

What is the world coming to...Maybe one day, in a few centuries, Cat Stevens will be banned from France

<t>Well, the B samples are out and the results are....:The B sample taken in the Tour of Spain is positive again.However, the B sample from the Olympics did not contain enough cells to do the test! So amazingly Hamilton is gonna keep his gold medal!Of course the fact that he tested positive for the ...

<t>We still need the result of the B sample, but this is the first time an an athlete is tested positive for blood doping.There are 2 techniques of blood doping:1. Autotransfusion: you make reserves of your own blood and inject it when needed. It is impossible to get detected as far as i know. The p...

Hamilton fails blood test

US olympic champion Tyler Hamilton (ex US Postal) just got tested positive during the Tour of Spain.

3 years

Hello,i have calculated historical equity correlation for the iTRAXX firms. The average is 40%.It is much higher than implied correlation. (tranche 0-3 has 23% implied corr).Does anyone has reference or can explain this?Thanks!