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Open Thread, 08/27/2018
DNAGeeks is dropping prices and offering free shipping on the phone microscopes for the rest of August. We’ll be putting the scopes on sale until the stock is cleared. As I’m reading Imperial China 900–1800, I’m still thinking most of the readers of this weblog would benefit from doing so as well. There’s just so much within […]
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Open Thread, 08/19/2018
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story is a “deal” on Kindle. Recommended. Also, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. Greece’s Bailout Is Ending. The Pain Is Far From Over. Seems to me that Greece […]
Open Thread, 08/14/2018
Weekly book recommendation, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. V. S. Naipaul has died. I never read his fiction. Perhaps I should. Suggestions? People always talk about A House for Mr. Biswas. Genome-wide polygenic scores for common diseases identify individuals with risk equivalent to monogenic mutations. ” We […]
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Open thread, 08/06/2018
In light of the recommendation of F. W. Motte’s Imperial China: 900-1800, I thought it would be useful to reiterate a minimal set of other books that are important in my intellectual development in relation to the history of China. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. You need to start at the beginning, and […]
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Open Thread, 07/29/2018
Reading Imperial China 900–1800 it is interesting how the Khitan seem to have chosen to develop a written script that was not based on that of the Chinese, to resist the cultural assimilation that would have inevitably occurred. Through that choice they reduced their short-term efficiency, but probably enabled their long-term persistence as a people. […]
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Open Thread, 07/23/2018
Doing a Summer Sale at DNAGeeks, 20% off with the GET20 code. I believe GNXP-helix themed stuff is still the most consistent/popular item. Reading T. N. Ninian’s Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future. It’s a relatively dry book with an academic orientation. No complaint from me. So far the most […]
Open Thread, 07/17/2018
History of Japan: Revised Edition. As I said, a pretty good and short history. Recommended. CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing scissors are less accurate than we thought, but there are fixes. I know the focus is on human genetics. And rightly so. But this isn’t going to be as much of an issue in animal and plant […]
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Open Thread, 07/09/2018
My review of The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education is up at National Review Online (it’s already posted to my total content feed). The book’s publication date is tomorrow. A review can only pack in so many things. So if there is something missing that seems obvious, it’s probably something that I cut in […]
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Open Thread, 07/01/2018
Thanks to everyone for getting us above 100+ reviews. Would be nice to have more than 10 reviews on Stitcher. War! What Is It Good For? is a good book. Though it’s really more about social complexity than inter-group conflict. In this way, there are obvious resemblances to Ultrasociety. If you really want to read […]
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