Razib Khan Answers My Most Controversial Questions About Genetics: Quillette Cetera Episode 30
A conversation with geneticist and writer Razib Khan.
The Hidden Link Between “Genetic Nurture” and Educational Achievement
The genes that shape how educated you eventually become don’t necessarily have to be passed on to you.Photo Illustration by Peshkova / Shutterstock The phrase “Look down your nose” comes from a time when aristocrats were taller than commoners due to their superior nutrition. European elites would literally look down on their inferiors. So it […]
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AIT vs OIT survey
Since the readership is now plural majority Indian (going by IPs) I should probably ask this question… (JR’s OIT posts are now shared routinely hundreds, even thousands, of times on Facebook)
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Charles Cameron, R.I.P.
Charles Cameron, a contributor to this weblog, and an early guest on our podcast has died after an illness. I do not know any details (I saw a Facebook post), but I felt that it was important to mention his passing since his contribution to this forum was appreciated, and from what I knew of …
Intra-subcontinental insults are…
One of the weirdest emails I’ve ever received. The insults directed to me by people who are Pakistani or by people who are Hindus are peculiar, because they presuppose a sense of communal identity which I mostly lack. Insults toward Bengalis and Muslims just leave me scratching my head. Also, now that I am no …
BP ascension graphic
Last month BP received more traffic from India than the United States for the first time. Above you can see a three-year trendline of BP user growth. In a little over one year “Brown Pundits” in some form will have been around for 10 years…
Brown Pundits ascending!
This weblog finally surpassed 1,000,000 pageviews after two years.
Above you can see the monthly trajectory of unique users who have visited per month since June of 2017. The “trendline” seems pretty consistent.
Stuff I was wrong about!
A friend of mine was talking about which public intellectuals change their mind, and which do not. It turns out most don’t seem to. To be frank I don’t count myself as a public intellectual…but since some people have much looser criteria than I do, I thought I should review things I’ve changed my mind […]
6,500,000 words on Gene Expression
I installed a plugin that looked into the database to see how many words have been written on this weblog (this includes stuff from ScienceBlogs, Discover, and Unz, as I merged it all in). The total is 6.5 million words published. That’s about 65 400 page books (~100,000 words per book). The peak productivity was […]
Two phases of Brown Pundits
No idea what happened in Feb of 2018. But that’s when engagement/traffic really went up to a new plateau.
Why moderating this weblog has become more difficult
This is still a modest weblog. But engagement is high (average time on the website is 4+ minutes). And the proportion of Indian readers getting is higher and higher. At some point in 2019, conservatively, I think this weblog will have more Indian readers than American. That is a problem for me because I have … Continue reading “Why moderating this weblog has become more difficult”
Results of 2018 Reader Survey
There are currently 104 people who have responded in various degrees to the reader survey. If I limit to South Asians only, the modal reader is an Indian national, though not overwhelmingly so: In terms of religious identity, Hindus are modal, but those who are not religiously identified are very common (I selected this latter … Continue reading “Results of 2018 Reader Survey”
The once and future “Brown Pundits”
Country Users Rank % Rank China 746,662,194 1 53.20% 109 India 391,292,631 2 29.55% 143 United States 245,436,423 3 76.18% 54 Brazil 123,927,230 4 59.68% 90 Japan 117,528,631 5 92.00% 15 Russia 110,003,284 6 76.41% 53 The “Brown Pundits” blog was formed on a lark about 7 years ago. The Sepia Munity weblog was clearly … Continue reading “The once and future “Brown Pundits””
Brown Pundits 2018 Reader Survey
I created a SurveyMonkey poll. Check it out…. (after you are done, you can check out the results) Create your own user feedback survey
Brown Pundits, big in India!
I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll reiterate something I’ve noticed recently: this website is getting bigger and bigger in India. More precisely, though traffic is increasing in the USA, traffic is increasing from Indian IPs even faster. Here is the breakdown for the last month: Country % Users United States 35% India 29% UK 6% Canada … Continue reading “Brown Pundits, big in India!”
Where readers come from….
A little surprised.
From the content to the creator
The science fiction writer S. M. Stirling has a problem with his series centered around the Domination alternative history because readers often confuse the narrative of the alternative history for the author’s endorsement of its arc and philosophy. You see, the novels and stories depict a world where a quasi-Nazi ghoulishly Nietzschean race termed the […]
A living fossil, back to GNXP.COM
Just a note. I am moving back to the original Gene Expression domain. If you consume my content through my Twitter auto feed (not my main Twitter account) or my Total Content Feed, it’s pretty irrelevant, since all the places I post content to push to them (I still post to Brown Pundits and Secular […]
Why Brown Pundits?
This post is in response to Zach and Zimriel. Why Brown Pundits? Why this blog? And why do I post here, as opposed to Gene Expression or Secular Right, or various other venues which I have access to? To a great extent the origins of this blog for me go back to the early 2000s, … Continue reading “Why Brown Pundits?”
On the difficulties of cross-cultural communication
I speak English. But I speak a certain type of American English. I’m brown. But my culture is American. On a blog like this, these structural problems give rise to particular issues. I actually saw it on the old Sepia Mutiny blog first. Indian English is a distinct dialect not only in accent and lexicon …
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