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RKUL Hit List 2023: Ashkenazi Jewish genetics, a match made in the Mediterranean
Revisiting favorite Substack pieces, with research-based revisions
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RKUL Hit List 2023: Steppe 1.0, Going Nomad
Revisiting favorite Substack pieces, with research-based revisions
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More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins
The cold facts recorded in Jewish and Palestinian genetics today and historically
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David Lightbringer: mythopoetic interpretations
The winter is long, but the content must flow
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When Slavs Rush in: the Fall of the Latin Balkans
From Roman grandeur to the dawn of the Slavs
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Cesar Fortes-Lima: the three thousand-year odyssey of the Bantu
The genetics and history of the last great human Diaspora
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Open Thread – 12/15/2023 – Brown Pundits
Merry Christmas!
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Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Philippe Lemoine, a fellow at CSPI, a philosopher of science trained at Cornell. Lemoine often wades into controversial topics, like whether Chinese COVID data is trustworthy, but recently…
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Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US
Anti-Semitism, liberalism and the world’s changing geopolitics
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Time Well Spent – 12/12/2023
Holiday Edition
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Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses war and diplomacy from 9/11 to 10/7 with Mark Safranski. Safranski is a long-time military affairs and foreign policy commentator who ran the popular weblog Zenpundit beginning in 2003. T…
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Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution
How fragmented social networks might allow us to be more creative
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Brent Roberts: let’s talk about personality
Brent W. Roberts On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Roberts explains what personality actually is as a psychological construct, and h…
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Brent Roberts: let’s talk about personality
Brent W. Roberts On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Roberts explains what personality actually is as a psychological construct, and h…
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Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
The man who triggered a culinary controversy with a single tweet
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Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides’s Trap
For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. On t…
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Cyber Monday 50% discount, and three things I never quit
Substack savings, three years of top posts and stacks of reading recs
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Genghis Khan: they don’t make stars like they used to
Manspreading like the ancientsStar phylogenies and the rise and fall of hyper-patriarchy
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Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
Listen now (81 mins) | International relations between 9/11 to 10/7
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Browncast on Bangladesh, 2023
Amey, Karol and me review what’s going on in Bangladesh right now. – Elections in 2025, but an Awami League one party state emerging – Lack of integration and interaction between West Bengal and Bangladesh – Geopolitical orient…