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Open Thread, 11/17/2019
Just noticed that the Kindle version of Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past is $4.99. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you do it sooner rather than later. The Dark Psychology of Social Networks. Perhaps a little alarmist. One thing is clear […]
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Open Thread, 11/03/2019
Great podcast with Mark Koyama on his book Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom. The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca is free on Kindle. It’s an open-access textbook. Though I’m not sure how many people are reading, I do think the distribution of intellectual production needs to be […]
Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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Open Thread, 10/21/2019
Been very busy. Sorry-not sorry, about the lack of posting. This blog has gone on much longer than I would have thought when I started it back in 2002, but obviously it has to take a backseat to other things in my life now that I’m no longer in my mid-20s. One of the most […]
Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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Open Thread, 09/29/2019
Jürgen Osterhammel’s Unfabling the East is a book I really want to read someday. But I have to finish The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century first. Ancient genomic regulatory blocks are a major source for gene deserts in vertebrates after whole genome duplications. What Whales and Dolphins Left Behind […]
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Open Thread, 09/25/2019
Anyone have thoughts on The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World? Bryan Ward-Perkins long ago convinced me in The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization that the material fall of the Roman Empire was real and severe. But the “transformation” model a la Peter Brown seems more appropriate in regards […]
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Open Thread, 09/17/2019
Frank Dikotter’s The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962—1976. Many of my friends are wary of China. And for a reason. Its government is evil. But I wonder if there is something even more deeply rotten in Westen societies? No One Can Agree on How to Price California Home Insurance for Wildfires. Every time I […]
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Open Thread – 09/08/2019
Since the two recent papers on Indian genetics came out, lots of people have suggested that some of the researchers are shading the nature of the results to fit in with Indian politics. To be totally honest I haven’t said much about this because who are we, in the USA, to point fingers? American scientists […]
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Open Thread, 09/02/2019
Today I noticed Michael Grant’s World Of Rome is on Kindle. It’s a pretty decent survey. If you want a meatier survey, I recally recommend History of Rome. But that’s not in print anymore, so you’ll have to get a used copy. I love contemporary scholars, but they generally don’t write big long surveys aimed […]