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...basic level this new version of “Survivor” would pit two tribes with differing cultural and racial backgrounds against each other. But—and herein lies the innovation—the two tribes would live in separate and unequal lodgings. In competitions, Seiku (the Caucasian tribe) would be given better supplies and more time to complete challenges, while team Anawatu (made up of African-Americans) would have to make do without these luxuries. Described by many as “innovative” and “daring,” this systematic inequality will...
...Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields” that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...
...vary depending on where in a gene it is found and the influence of other genes. And a particular alteration can have varying effects in different populations. For instance, a variant gene called apolipoprotein E4 seems to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease if you are Caucasian or Japanese but not if you are a black African. It's important to know not only the SNPs but also their context to understand "who will respond and who will not respond," says Ordovas...
...apparent racial gap is puzzling--and ultimately inconclusive. Although other studies had shown similar effects of moderate drinking among pregnant Caucasian women, this one did not, says Jennifer Willford, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and co-author of the report. The gap does not appear to reflect differences in income or drinking patterns, Willford says, since the two groups were comparable in this particular population. And in her previous research, Willford says, she has found problems in learning and memory among 14-year-olds--both black and white--whose mothers drank during pregnancy...
...Silk, directed by Su Chao-bin, tries a sciencey twist on the ghostly-kid genre spawned in Japan by The Ring and imitated by movie industries from Hong Kong's to Hollywood's. Beginning with that favorite Asian movie trope - sending some disposable Caucasian to his violent death - Silk focus on a Taipei research project that has managed, through some anti-gravity gizmo called the Menger Sponge, to capture the ghost of a nine-year old boy. Guess what? The death-child escapes...