Daily Data Dump - October 18th, 2010

Elitism in the Senate. Harvard Law School:Tokyo University::Congress:Diet. Perusing The Almanac of American Politics makes it pretty clear that Harvard Law is way overrepresented. Barbara Billingsley Dies. All icons shall pass. Common variants at TRAF3IP2 are associated with susceptibility to psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. Will this pan out in replication? Am I partly Jewish? Testing ancestry hypotheses with 23andMe data. Jospeh Pickrell confirms that he is 1/4 Italian via genetics (he also confirmed he has blue eyes! Fascinating). Rand Paul To Jack Conway: 'You Demean Kentucky'. I still think Rand Paul is going to win, but, if he loses it's going to be open season on the religious views of American politicians in fine-grained detail and as far back as anyone can document. If you want "out" atheist politicians, at least temporarily before most get voted out, root for a Jack Conway victory.