Tag: genetics

5
Feb

What Discovering My Ancestry Taught Me About Race and Privilege

By JSB Morse In Economics, Logic, Science

After thinking it for almost my whole life, I was pretty disappointed when I found out that I did not in fact descend from the great artist and inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse. That caused me to rethink my pen name, one of my son’s names, and my web development company that plays off of […]

7
Aug

Race is Fake

By JSB Morse In Morality, Philosophy, Science, Society

There is a long, dubious history of people separating humanity into groups based on appearance but it has consistently been arbitrary and illogical. Mostly racial groups are based on phenotypic characteristics (skin, hair, and eye color and head size and shape). The application of this simple classification is pretty obvious, especially when mapped out […]