Daily Data Dump - Wednesday

Epigenome effort makes its mark. "This week, the Roadmap Epigenomics Project, a US$170-million effort to identify and map those marks — known collectively as the human epigenome — begins its first comprehensive data release." At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture. The story of executives taking home millions while the ship goes down is very old-school. Mao ate well while millions starved and China as a nation-state was being economically eviscerated. The scale of the moral calamity differed by orders of magnitude, but I think the principal-agent problem is basically the same. Science Knows Best. 'The most compelling strand in “The Moral Landscape” is its unspooling diatribe against relativism.' I am not a "New Atheist," and find some of Sam Harris' assertions about religion as a natural phenomenon embarrassingly unsubtle. I also have much more sympathy for David Hume's is/ought distinction and assumption that reason is generally the “slave ...