The average black NFL draft pick ran the 40 yard dash in 4.62 seconds while the average white NFL draft pick's time was 4.96, meaning about 85%-90% of black draft picks are faster than the average white draft pick.

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In "Wonderlic, Race, and the NFL Draft," economists Gill and Brajer found a greater than a standard deviation racial disparity in average 40-yard-dash time among black NFL draft picks (4.62) and white picks (4.96).

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…

This race gap is due to:
Black NFL draft picks averaged 19.76 right on the NFL draft combine's Wonderlic IQ test, while white NFL draft picks averaged 27.7, meaning about 85% of black draft picks score lower than the average white draft pick.

unz.com/isteve/white-n…
In "Wonderlic, Race, and the NFL Draft," economists Gill and Brajer found a roughly one standard deviation racial gap in average Wonderlic IQ test scores between white NFL draft picks (27.7 right) and black picks (19.76 right):

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…

This race gap is due to:

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13 May
Here's David Bowie performing his greatest song, "Heroes," in 1977:



Bowie was so much more healthy in 2002:
And here's Bowie doing in Berlin in 2002 his greatest song "Heroes," an even better Cold War anthem than Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now" and the Sex Pistols' "Holidays in the Sun:"



Bowie was just so much more _healthy_ in his 50s than when younger.
Here's David Bowie doing "Heroes" at Live Aid in 1985, wit hthe up-tempo rhythm of the coked-up early 1980s. His performance gets better when he briefly slows down about 3:30:

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7 May
The quickest handshake link of a living celebrity to Napoleon Bonaparte, who died 200 years ago, is likely via singer Paul McCartney, who knew mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), who knew his grandfather, Prime Minister John Russell (1792-1878), who met Napoleon on Elba.
There are lots of people alive today who shook Bertrand Russell's hand and thus are linked via only three handshakes to Napoleon, but I picked Paul McCartney because of his fame and the not insubstantial connection: in 1965 Russell persuaded McCartney to oppose the Vietnam War.
All these connections were not insubstantial: Paul McCartney had several hours of one-on-one conversation with nonagenarian Bertrand Russell in 1965, who hadspent his first 6 years in the 1870s living with his ex-PM grandpa, who met with Napoleon on Elba for 90 minutes in 1814.
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4 May
Dear @TMorello of Rage Against the Machine:

Your great-uncle was Jomo Kenyatta, 1st president of Kenya, right? Did you ever look into the 3-way Cold War struggle over Kenya, with Kenyatta as the Brits' Our Man in Nairobi, Tom Mboya as the Yanks', and Oginga Odinga as Moscow's?
Dear @Tmorello of Rage Against the Machine:

Your Kenyan family has lots of overlaps with Obama family history: Barack Sr. was the anchor witness in the trial of Tom Mboya's assassin, although Barack Sr. was closer ideologically to Mboya's pro-Soviet Luo rival Oginga Odinga.
Dear @Tmorello of Rage Against the Machine:

The families and upbringings of you (half-Kenyan grand-nephew of Jomo Kenyatta and half white American) and Zack de la Rocha (mother is an anthropologist) combined are remarkably similar to Barack Obama Jr.'s:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_de_l…
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28 Apr
Here's my new column on the origins of the two opposing ways of thinking about the facts of human biodiversity: race as continuous or discontinuous variation.

On the Origin of Races takimag.com/article/on-the…
South of Greece, the Sahara Desert was less of a barrier due to the Nile, green Ethiopia, and the much-traversed Indian Ocean. In contrast, south of Portugal, the Sahara cut off Europeans from sub-Saharan trade until the Portuguese made the great leap around the Muslim blockade.
takimag.com/article/on-the…

Hence, the ancient Greeks tended to see race as more a matter of degree, while the worldview that grew out of Portuguese and Spanish explorations saw it more as a matter of kind.
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25 Apr
@ent3c Consider your Dominican example. The DR produces more great baseball players than anywhere else per capita. Why?

One reason is cultural: in Jamaica they play cricket instead of basketball.

But Mexico was baseball-crazed, and sent many utility players to the big leagues.
@ent3c Why didn't Mexico produce superstar baseball players the way the DR does? LA Dodger scout Mike Brito, who discovered Fernando Valenzuela and recently Julio Urias in Mexico, concluded after decades of searching that Mexicans' legs are seldom long enough.
@ent3c Now, leg length is influenced by both nature and nurture: better diets and other factors can drive up average height, and much of the increased height comes from longer legs.

But Mexico is not starving--it rivals the US for obesity--and life expectancies have almost caught US.
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24 Apr
Both the Dominican Republic and South Korea are enthusiastic about baseball, with citizens of both countries playing in the US major leagues. But there have been vastly more great Dominican ballplayers. Do genes have something to with that?

stadiumtalk.com/s/best-dominic…
The average Dominican looks about half black and half white, but on this list of 25 best DR ballplayers, only Bartolo Colon (the least athletic) looks more white than black, and only a few (e.g., Pujols and Bautista) look pretty evenly mixed.

How come?

stadiumtalk.com/s/best-dominic…
The best American-born Dominican ballplayer, Alex Rodriguez, looks distinctly mixed race, although blacker than his mixed race teammate Derek Jeter.

But most DR ballplayers are blacker than the DR average.
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