Jan
27
2009
If Facebook is starting to take over your life, maybe your genes are partly to blame.
Researchers from UC San Diego and Harvard University have shown that certain aspects of a person’s social network – how many people consider that person a friend, the likelihood that two of a person’s friends are themselves friends, and how [...]
Tags: Facebook, heritability, social networks, twins
Aug
06
2008
For years I believed that every Mexican restaurant my family took me to had some kind of problem with their dishwashing machine. Why else would the food always taste like soap? No one around me seemed to notice, so I just assumed that everyone else liked the taste of dirty dishwater in their [...]
Tags: 23andWe, cilantro, research, SNPs, soap, twins