Brown Pundits Browncast episode 52: Sahil Handa, National Review intern and cosmopolitan conservative
Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe at one of the links above. You can also support the podcast as a patron. The primary benefit now is that you get the podcasts considerably …
Generations don’t exist, and neither do “immigrants”
I have heard it stated by some scholars that generations don’t exist, but cohorts do. That is, our bracketing of ranges of people into particular generations is artificial and bins what is truly a more continuous variable into a few categories. The same criticism applies to the Myers-Briggs typology in personality (the main reason psychologists …
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
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No honor among brownz
Subway Got Too Big. Franchisees Paid a Price: Sabotaged meatballs. The wrong soap. Franchisees say supervisors manipulated inspections — then took their stores. A company ‘hit man’ says it’s true: That was when Ms. Greco took over Subway, and the company’s store count began to shrink. In the East Bay, Mr. Tripathi was under the …
Whole genome sequencing comes to Cavalli-Sforza’s data
More than twenty years ago L. L. Cavalli-Sforza published The History and Geography of Human Genes. Based on decades of analysis of ‘classical’ markers, this work lays out results of statistical genetic analyses based on a few hundred genes, as well as displaying Cavalli-Sforza’s encyclopedic ethnographic knowledge. A close look at this book will yield […]
Brown Pundits Browncast episode 51: Scratching the surface on Sri Lanka
Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe at one of the links above. You can also support the podcast as a patron. The primary benefit now is that you get the podcasts considerably …
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Genetic genealogy and the origins of Islam
The standard narrative that you read in the history books, as passed down through Islamic tradition and historiography, is that in the first decades of the 7th-century the religion of Islam was promulgated by Muhammad and his followers from the cities of Medina and Mecca. Muhammad brought the tribes and peoples of the Arabian peninsula […]
6,500,000 words on Gene Expression
I installed a plugin that looked into the database to see how many words have been written on this weblog (this includes stuff from ScienceBlogs, Discover, and Unz, as I merged it all in). The total is 6.5 million words published. That’s about 65 400 page books (~100,000 words per book). The peak productivity was […]
The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 33: Scandinavian Genetics
The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 33: Scandinavian GeneticsBirch ForestThis week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib talks to Dr. Torsten Gunther about the genetics of ancient Scandinavians.There are a…
Scandinavian Genetics
Talking the genetic history of Scandinavians with Torsten Günther. Show notes https://blog.insito.me/the-insight-show-notes-season-2-episode-33-scandinavian-genetics-d4e6e4deeaaf
Humanity on the edge of the world
Nordic “Northern Lights”One of the most curious aspects of our species, in particular, modern humanity, is our tendency to wander, to push the limits of habitation beyond reason for rhyme. Humans have been using tools for millions of years, and Neander…
Open Thread – 06/25/2019
The first “Open Thread” in a month… Tim Mackintosh-Smith ‘s Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes is a book I recommend without reservation. Many of these types of books about Arabs tend to be focus on two periods, that of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, the 20th-century revival of Arab supra-national identity. Mackintosh-Smith’s small […]
A darker shade of brown
On the individual level who you find attractive and what you find attractive is your own deal. I’m not one to go exhorting anyone to anything. To be frank I find “campaigns” to make x more attractive a bit cringe. It’s like the joke about having to explain to someone that actually you are very …
The site is back…for now
I spent some time trying to lock-down the issue with this website. It’s back online again. Apparently, it was getting hit with too many requests and it was taking down the shared host it’s on (CPU problems). I’ve installed a bunch of caching and other features (including blocking bad crawlers). Hope we’re back in the […]
The limits of semantics; Hindus before Hinduism
When I was a 20-year old atheist I would read books on the philosophy of religion and explore arguments for and against the existence of god(s). Though I was never naive enough to think that just if people could be exposed to arguments against the argument for design people would be atheists, I wouldn’t have …
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An American twist on “joint-family” (?)
The real reason polyamory is the future – homes with only 2 parents can no longer afford children. https://t.co/msJW5ZgRVo
— Eliezer Yudkowsky (@ESYudkowsky) June 15, 2019
Of proteins and paleontology
Ostrich eggAncient DNA has transformed our understanding of the biological past. The sequencing of mammoths, moa, and Neanderthal have opened up a window upon evolution which we had previously only perceived through material remains. Whereas 20 years a…
The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 32: Tibetan Denisovans!
The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 32: Tibetan Denisovans!Denisovan MandibleThis week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib talks to Dr. Frido Welker, a pioneer in the field of ancient protein phylogeneti…
Tibetan Denisovans
Razib talks about a Denisovan finding from Tibet with Dr. Frido Welker. Show notes: https://pxlme.me/jcQr2gSy