Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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Open Thread, 08/26/2019
After a little thought, I’ve decided to cancel the “Membership” option for this weblog. It just wasn’t working in terms of the time/energy it took to keep the tech working on an independent platform, and I didn’t really like gating posts anyway. If you really want to support this weblog, I have a Patreon account, […]
Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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Open Thread, 08/19/2019
Just got Statistical Thinking from Scratch: A Primer for Scientists by Michael Edge in the mail (one of the favorite non-electronic books I’ll buy this year). I think a lot of readers of this weblog would find this a useful book in terms of the range of topics covered, as well as the level of […]
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Open Thread, 08/11/2019
John Reader’s Africa: A Biography of the Continent is one of my favorite books. Cities is not as good, but if you are trying to avoid cookie-cutter surveys, it is pretty decent. Reader is an engaging writer. I haven’t had time to work on the South Asian Genotype or Tutsi projects in a while. But […]
Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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Kashmir “open thread”
Nothing to say of substance myself. What do I know compared to you geniuses? That being said, I’m a little surprised how dumb the American media is ( basically they seem to fall back on the same sources). Like they used to say back in the day, “it’s yours”….
Open Thread – 08/04/2019
Tanner Greer has a post up, A Study Guide for Human Society, Part I, where he says this: …I have collected fifteen separate 400+ page books that try to answer the question “why did the West get rich first.” And that was seven years ago! The number of books tackling this question has only grown […]
Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Please keep the other posts on topic. Use this for talking about whatever you want to talk about. I’m reading Buddhism: A History. That inspired me to write The Invention Of World Religions 2,000 Years Ago. One of the assertions in the book which I would be curious as to reader opinion: Advaita has more …
Open Thread, 07/28/2019
Just found out about Helen Dale’s Kingdom of the Wicked. It’s a novel set in an alternative history where the point-of-departure is that Archimedes does not die after the fall of Syracuse. For various reasons, this leads to an industrial revolution during the Late Republic. I found out about this piece through Mark Koyama’s Could […]
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Open Thread, 07/22/2019
Fun time sat the ISIR 2019 meeting in Minneapolis. Lots of deviltry, but that’s for the open thread. I will tell readers that James Lee has more to come after 2018’s Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. And Greg Clark has something in the […]
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Open Thread, 09/14/2019
I read The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World on the plane. A pretty quick read, and recommended. Two major things that stood out to me: The importance of the fact that dinosaurs likely were more efficient at getting oxygen from the air, like modern birds, than mammals […]
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Open Thread, 07/07/2019
John Barton’s A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book is worth a read. Balances textual analysis with social-historical context. Some bots and crawlers seem to be hitting this website. I have throttled a lot of that so hopefully, that will help. The outages have only gotten worse over the […]
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Open June, 06/30/2019
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World is well written. Updating my knowledge base from when I was an elementary school kid. I’m kind of tired of maintaining this site, so I have installed Jetpack, WP Rocket, and Cloudflare. Hopefully, this will keep the weblog from going down. […]
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