The problem is that the issue became politicized. First by eugenicists that used it to justify genocide, then by people whose belief that 'everyone must be the same' prevent real research into the differences between types of people, reasoning that ignorance is better than identifying a difference for certain.
Biologically, it's already been identified that people from various parts of the world have adapted in ways that produced outward characteristics, e.g. people from northern latitudes produce less melanin so that sunlight can make more vitamin D.
The problem is the quantification of 'intelligence' and the cultural biases in current tests. In one standard IQ test, the question "Who wrote Faust" is clearly culturally biased. Replace that question with "Who wrote The Analects" or "In which season are the Ndushebe berries edible" and see how well most people from western cultures fare.
Even tests that are supposedly free of cultural bias are specific to a given training in symbol manipulation. For example, a common IQ test for children asks the child how to arrange colored blocks to form a pattern on a card, or which is the next number in a series. But these activities assume that you are familiar with these symbols, what if you write your numbers in a different way, or that your childhood toys were round and didn't have sides?
Unfortunately, we may never know in the west since science is a political activity. Agencies won't fund research, departments won't give tenure, publishers won't publish papers, conferences won't allow talks etc. if the topic is too 'controversial.'

"Now it’s just a horrifying idea."

No. It's still an awesome idea.

It's the environment of fear we live in which is horrifying.

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Hell no!!!!

I have lost all respect for the Neatorama.

Twitchings is a hypocritical shill, opportunistic bastard and bloated internet idiot….. he is no global warming expert, nor scientist ….. he is a fucking blog commentor, (and a not a very goos one at that)!!!!!!

assChump Extremist!!!!

''Sheesh… people are pathetically quick to bash the US these days. Talk about taking any opportunity you can get. *eyeroll*''

Well, the sooner you get your idiot president out of office, the sooner your country will regain some respect.

If you leave a water bottle on top of your car in Argentina, it will cause the car to go away because it means it's for sale.

It doesn't work.

BTW, in Brazil, there's a myth that putting water bottles on your electric meter will make them more efficient and save you money.

If you go through the slums and poorer areas especially, there will be two or three water bottles balanced on top of the meter.

President Clinton II is coming.

illimey sounds like one of our right-wing wacko Christinas here in the States.

Wow, just like QT McWhiskers from Futurama. Do the lasers burn things?

That's because nobody doesn't like molten boron! (futurama reference)

This is why BBC America's programmers need to be fired. I would much rather watch this than reruns of Benny Hill. Why isn't it offered here?

The key is what time frame are you considering? As said before, if it is geologic time, say millions of years, then glass flow is not unreasonable. However, on short time frames, human lifetime (tens of years), or even human civilization timeframe (hundreds of years), i would bet that the glass flow is negligible.
I'm not sure if the amorphous nature of pitch is the same as glass, but take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

Ironically, Rich Snyder, president of In-n-Out who instituted the chapter and verse printing on their cups and wrappers was 'called home' early in a plane wreck in 1993.

I think they're 100k which would make the time constant 0.1 s, so a few hertz rate?

Wow, that's impressive, that circuit would actually work and blink the LED if it were made of real components.