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Open Thread, 01/26/2020
I’ve been posting a fair amount about Southeast Asia. This an important part of the world. As outlined in Victor Lieberman’s Strange Parallels, there are similarities to Europe in terms of the ‘naturalness’ of nation-states. Especially in mainland Southeast Asia. Burma is dominated by Burmans. Thailand is dominated by Thais. Laos, but the lowland Lao. […]
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Open Thread, 01/19/2019
As I’ve been slowly but surely phasing out of posting much original content on Twitter I’ve been thinking about what has happened to the platform. One thing that I think seems obvious is that all communities degrade and degenerate until only the assholes remain. I saw this pattern in the early teens in “science writer” […]
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Open Thread, 01/05/2020
The first open thread of 2020. Going into the 2020s, the third decade of this blog. With the death of Qasem Soleimani I feel like this is 2002-2004 again, when everyone was opining on the Middle East. Most people clearly had no idea what they were talking about. That included me, though to be frank […]
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Open Thread, 12/27/2019
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. Is there a better book on this topic? A genome-wide Approximate Bayesian Computation approach suggests only limited numbers of soft sweeps in humans over the last 100,000 years. Saudi Arabia Wants Your Next Vacation. Where Rent Is $13,500, She Lives Off What’s Left at the […]
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Open Thread, 12/15/2019
A few days ago I posted about the new book, Seshat History of the Axial Age. I am at a point in my life where I am averse to purchasing physical books. Even after multiple waves of purging I have too many of those. That being said, the Seshat project is only putting Seshat History […]
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Open Thread, 12/08/2019
Richard Harris’ Hume: An Intellectual Biography. Whatever you think about David Hume’s philosophy, he knew how to be a man who lived for the life of the mind. A Farewell to Feministing and the Heyday of Feminist Blogging. Nothing particular to feminist blogging. ‘I Have Told Everything,’ Says Whistle-Blower in China Crackdown. How much does […]
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Open Thread, 12/02/2019
Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits is available on Kindle format. I have most population and quantitative genetics texts, but these are not optimal for portability. They are big and heavy. Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits is not cheap, but it’s over 1,000 pages. Merry Christmas to me! Dante is sequencing my whole genome. […]
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Open Thread, 11/26/2019
I am reading Thant Myint-U’s The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century. It’s an excellent book. About ten years ago I read an earlier book of his, The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma. The author and I have also corresponded a bit […]