The Sound Of Settled Science
If you think your mixed-breed pup is naturally hardier than the neighbor’s purebred, you may want to think again. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, indicates that mixed breeds don’t necessarily have an advantage when it comes to inherited canine disorders.
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The data also indicated that the more recently derived breeds or those breeds that shared a similar lineage were more susceptible to certain inherited disorders. For example, four of the top five breeds affected with elbow dysplasia were the Bernese mountain dog, Newfoundland, mastiff and Rottweiler — all from the mastiff-like lineage. This suggests that these breeds share gene mutations for elbow dysplasia because they were descended from a common ancestor.
In contrast, disorders that occurred equally among purebred and mixed-breed dogs appeared to represent ancient gene mutations that had become widely spread throughout the dog population. Such disorders included hip dysplasia, all of the tumor-causing cancers and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition.
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
Terrorist attacks and deaths hit record high, report shows.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Londoners sign petition supporting female genital mutilation because “it’s part of their culture”.
It’s Probably Nothing
Following analysis of the data, Professor Lockwood believes solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years.
He found 24 different occasions in the last 10,000 years when the sun was in exactly the same state as it is now – and the present decline is faster than any of those 24.
Based on his findings he’s raised the risk of a new Maunder minimum from less than 10% just a few years ago to 25-30%.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Toastla.
h/t Ed S.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, forwarded by SDA guest blogger Robert, we see Vancouver in a new way: Here’s Vancouver City Time Lapse in 4K.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
We Are All Treaty People
…as a white American, I think that African Americans and Indians should pay us royalties for the use of our civilization. I do not propose a great exaction, but only a reasonable fee for enjoyment of contributions that whites have made and that others use. I mean things such as telephones, air conditioning, flush toilets, democracy, civil rights, antibiotics, running shoes, and the machines that read EBT cards. Also paved roads. Cars. Computers. Electricity. Clean water. Those sorts of things.
Indeed.
h/t EBD
I Was Sitting By The Phone, Mr. Harper
Coulda been Senator McMillan…
Details at Sun News.
Y2Kyoto: The IPCC Southern Hemisphere Reconstructions
IPCC’s SH temperature reconstructions in their signature spaghetti graph (Figure 5.7b) used California bristlecone chronologies, upside down Tiljander and European instrumental temperature data, but did not use Antarctic isotope data.
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough
Download the report here.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Layers of fact checkers: – CBS doesn’t know the difference between J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover. (h/t Black Mamba)
Y2Kyoto: First They Came For The Light Bulbs
Just when you thought the EU couldn’t suck any more, it sucks less.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
NY Post; Beg Apple: Subways overrun with homeless
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t John Galt III
Reader Tips
Tonight, we watch some film footage from 1935 showing a large group of Roman policemen riding their motorcycles in a very un-Italian way – in other words, calmly, in synchronized fashion, and with no angry shouting or rude hand gestures.
Very impressive — eat your heart out Busby Berkely.
h/t Kate
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Peak Pill
A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end.
‘For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics, question mark?”‘ said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. ‘Well, now I would say you can change the title to “The end of antibiotics, period.”‘
I say close the FDA and see what happens.
The Five Horses Of The Apocalypse
War, Famine, Pestilence, Death and Rall.
We Are All Treaty People
Fredericton Police ordered a Sun News Network reporter to move his camera after his attempt to videotape a Native protest was blocked.
Crowds gathered in a Fredericton park Saturday to erect the traditional Native longhouse to protest exploratory shale fracking in Rexton, N.B.