Rishi and the past
Rishi Sunak will lead the nation just below India in the world GDP nations. Racial or cultural triumphalism is gauche, so nice to see that that’s low-key so far. But I personally hope that this will be an opportunity for Indian elites to fixate less on the British past and engage more forthrightly with their … Continue reading Rishi and the past
Religion in China, India and the West
On this monologue episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib considers the different roles religion plays in various world civilizations. To explore this topic, he contrasts religion in the West (which includes Christendom and the Dar-al-Islam), on the In…
Erik Hoel: neuroscience is dead, long live neuroscience!
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The Genetic Correlation strikes again
How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations: They found DNA in the skeletons of 198 Danes who lived between 850 and 1800. Mutations in immune genes […]
Genetic distances across the world
There was some discussion online about variation among South Asians. I decided to compute a few pairwise Fst statistics (measures between population variation) with some South Asian, European and East Asian populations (along with Iranians). I plot them below in two graphs. Also I ran Treemix. I don’t have any major conclusion, just draw your … Continue reading Genetic distances across the world
Genetic distances across the world
There was some discussion online about variation among South Asians. I decided to compute a few pairwise Fst statistics (measures between population variation) with some South Asian, European and East Asian populations (along with Iranians). I plot them below in two graphs. Also I ran Treemix. I don’t have any major conclusion, just draw your … Continue reading Genetic distances across the world
Hittite Words, Byzantine Walls: what the West as we know it owes Anatolia’s empires
2,000 years of Anatolian biological continuity and cultural significance
Open Thread – 10/14/2022 – Brown Pundits
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Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses approaching politics through philosophy, political philosophy, and what it’s like being an excessively online academic in 2022 with Oliver Traldi. Currently working on a book on understanding pol…
Jonathan Haidt: social media kills the internet utopia
Listen now (59 min) | What hath Twitter wrought?
HoD vs. RoP; game over
Rings of Power cost $60 million dollars per episode while House of the Dragon cost $20 million dollars per episode. These are astronomical figures, but RoP is arguably the most […]
RKUL: Time Well Spent 10/10/2022
Halloween edition
Religion in China, India and the West
Listen now (43 min) | The different role of religion in different world civilizations
Tania Reynolds: let’s talk about intrasexual competition
Evolutionary psychology is a field that has made headlines ever since its inception as a distinct discipline in the 1980’s. In this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Dr. Tania Reynolds of the University of New Mexico, who researches intr…
Ararat’s long shadow: Asia Minor’s major impact on humanity
What happens in Anatolia doesn’t stay in Anatolia (culturally and biologically speaking)
Richard Hanania: markets in every prediction
How do we know when to trust the experts? On January 23rd, 2020, Vox published a piece titled The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work. Journalists are largely limited to reporting what experts tell them, and …
Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
Listen now (69 min) | From understanding political beliefs through philosophy to being far too online
A confused post-Empire
Truss learns the hard way that Britain isn’t America: If anti-Americanism was bad, look what its opposite has done. Britain is in trouble because its elite is so engrossed with the US as to confuse it for their own nation. The UK does not issue the world’s reserve currency. It does not have near-limitless demand … Continue reading A confused post-Empire
Kerry of Mary Lincolniana: America made in the image of Massachusetts
“Yankee go home!” has often been hurled at Americans indiscriminately. But the reality is that Yankee as a category initially meant the people of New England and its colonies across the northern fringe United States, from upstate New York to Minnesota….
Tania Reynolds: let’s talk about intrasexual competition
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