http://api.cde.ca.gov/Acnt2011/2010Base_DstApi.aspx?cYear=&allcds=3066670&cChoice=2010ApiD

A high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is defending its decision to segregate its students by race and gender.

The scheme, at McCaskey East High School, separates black students from the rest of the school body, and then further breaks it down into black females and black males.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350864/School-defends-separation-black-students-boost-academic-results.html

Someone expresses a doubt and gets crucified.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/05/harvard-student-stephanie-graces-racist-e-mail-a-disaster-all/

Guess what: there are populations differences between races.

Not a lot of jewish basketball players.

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Seems this is due to a certain Yelena Shagall?

http://gawker.com/5529322/racist-harvard-law-email-the-cat-fight-that-turned-into-a-national-scandal

Watching some plants grow. Thinking about evolution: growing under lights
will definately select for certain characteristics. And here I am, growing outdoors.

Same for intelligence. Jews and Asians must have been subjected to stronger evolutionary
pressure to have higher "g", since "g" is an adaptive (ie breeding) trait. At least in the long
term; anti-intellectualism is also a trait, perhaps cultural with a genetic bedrock.
And intellectualism carries penalties; so does half sickle cell anti-malaria trait and half Tay-Sachs TB resistance.

Anway.

Plants under lights:

Temperature intolerance
Light hungry
Weak stems
Stoma incompetence
Wind intolerance
Bug vulnerable
Weakened root system
Generally narrower tolerance of conditions and lesser resistance to parasites --much like cows or other domesticated animals. If you take it to the levels of purebred dogs, you get into serious genetic defects, and show the limits of the basic architecture.

Hyper trichome-ism is a good thing, though.

Yes, we are better than our ancestors. Our grass is stronger, and over a long term and population (only) average, we are fitter --smarter and physical plant healthier.

But wealth leads to decadence, abundant food to genetic lack of selection, diversity, but also decay. The nucleic library molds and decays, without copying and editing.

Nature is the editor.

Do not fuck with mother nature.

(Do not take this post to condemn GM or breeding or hormone (etc) manipulation
---they're cool with me. I mean this in the larger spiritual creed sense as well as
the practical. We don't have Biblical dominion (tm) but we have Objectivist
opportunity.)

Rule 1 of Nature club: Mother nature always wins
Rule 1.1: Nature includes the four forces and all of matter and energy.
Rule 1.2 Nature does not give a fuck about what is represented in the heads of humans
And so on.

Will have to think about this; or will anyway.

The suit was brought on behalf of 6,000 African Americans who had "qualified" scores on the test, but lost out to those rated "well-qualified."

Last week, lawyers representing the black applicants estimated the city could owe $100 million for lost wages and benefits. A lawyer for the city put the figure at closer to $30 million.

The Obama administration intervened in the case on behalf of the black applicants. The goal of the Civil Rights Act is "to eradicate discrimination" in the workplace, said Neal Katyal, the deputy U.S. solicitor general. In this case, "the city knew very well the test [was] discriminatory," he said.

When the test results were announced in 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley said they were "disappointing" because only 11% of the top scorers were black.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14742737

The economist on how The Bell Curve is going to be demonstrated
further, with interesting political / biological repercussions.

Govt study support for the Bell Curve:

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/studies/2009455.asp



Freethinkers have supported abortion for eugenic reasons,
which despite the Times' author's opinion, is a good thing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg14-2009jul14,0,4640584.column

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-harvard20-2009jun20,0,1882109.story?page=1
has a story about a woman who grew up homeless, yet scored very well on the "standardized tests" so hated by many. She is now going to Harvard.

This is what Murray and Herrnstein wrote about: smart people (from any population; the woman in the story is black) often achieve a lot, despite background.