I confess, yea, there is a misunderstanding (sometimes) between generations. A new mindset list like the Beloit College List is therefore very handy as it explains

Most students entering college for the first time this fall [...] were born in 1992.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. [...]
7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo. [...]
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed. [...]
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station. [...]
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church. [...]
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus. [...]

Maybe I should reserve some time to rewrite that in German with my children, yea, yea.

I need to refer here to a post 3 years ago or to the medical literature that genes frequencies changed rapidly between generations.
Although that is even the basis of a submitted Great Challenge Application at the Gates Foundation any empirical proof is scarce so far.
Or I have to say, until this week, when I found a study published earlier in PLoS ONE that tackles this problem: Selection for Genetic Variation Inducing Pro-Inflammatory Responses under Adverse Environmental Conditions in a Ghanaian Population (Show me more…)

Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me” from Playing For Change

I have heard it many times on congresses and there seems now even a meta-analysis of a possible preferential maternal transmission of asthma to children. And of course, there are important biological question behind (imprinting? maternal antibody transfer?) but unfortunately this is nothing else than a spurious effect.
The author’s view is well taken that we did the first modern family study 1992 (Show me more…)