Category: Open Thread
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Open Thread – 4/9/2022 – Gene Expression
I’ve been reading The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann before I go to sleep. Not sure I would recommend this, as the author, Ananyo […]
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Open Thread – 4/1/2022 – Brown Pundits
In the last week of this month I will be posting a podcast I did with Francis Young, author of Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic: Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism (at my Substack). Over the hour and a half we talked about many topics, but one thing that struck me listening to him…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 3/18/2022
A comment on the earlier open thread: Interested to know what Razib and Omar sahab think of Holi, any experiences Razib? I don’t have any experience and did not know it was Holi. Thanks for telling me! I was going to visit India for business in 2020, but then COVID-19 happened, so I have never…
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Open Thread – 3/1/2022 – Gene Expression
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution. A book by the great Richard Wrangham. Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers. […]
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 2/26/2022
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Open Thread – 01/20/2022 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Open Thread – 01/07/2022 – Brown Pundits
California University Disaffiliates From Indian Scholar for Being Dishonest With Kashmiri Subjects.
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Open Thread – 12/26/2021 – Gene Expression
Has anyone read The Dawn of Everything? What are your opinions? What are the best reviews? My prior is to be skeptical because economic historians and economists tend not be […]
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Open Thread – 12/11/2021 – Gene Expression
Peggy Mohan’s Wanderers, Kings, Merchants is a strange book for a reader of this weblog. The author is really fixated on retroflex consonants, but she’s also aware of the latest […]
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Open Thread – 12/3/2021 – Brown Pundits
Lots of Indian tech CEOs. This is just the world in 2021.
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Open Thread – 11/29/2021 – Gene Expression
The The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World is a fast read. Recommended. I’ve been too busy to do an “Open Thread” and now that I do […]
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Open Thread – 11/19/2021 – Brown Pundits
Modi?
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Open Thread – 11/07/2021 – Gene Expression
In the mid-2000’s I read a bunch of books on the history of Catholicism in the US. One of the most memorable of those books was Jay P Dolan’s In […]
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Open Thread – 10/29/2021 – Brown Pundits
Please make sure to subscribe to the podcast. We’re still posting things and sometimes there isn’t a blog post associated with it.
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Razib Khan 30x whole-genome sequence data
About four years ago I posted my genotype data for anyone who wanted it. This included the raw export files from consumer genomics firms + my VCF file generated by […]
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Horses were domesticated before mammoth went extinct
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes: Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare1. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the […]
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Open Thread – 10/18/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Open Thread – 10/17/2021 – Gene Expression
Reading Julia Galef’s The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t. I’ve known Julia for a decade now, and I really respect her. She’s a good-faith […]
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Open Thread – 10/02/2021 – Brown Pundits
My Substack post on caste is finally up. Thanks for your patience. The podcast released three episodes in three days. An interview with Wahid Majrooh, Former Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan. Another with Pashtana Durrani, an Afghan activist. A…
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Open Thread – 10/01/2021 – Gene Expression
Over at my Substack I’ve posted my interview with Steven Pinker on Rationality. You can read my review at UnHerd. I would appreciate it if readers of this weblog leave […]