Category Archives: Open Thread

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Re-reading The Turks in World History as I’m thinking about my next post in my series on the Eurasian steppe for Substack. The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in […]

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Google’s Caste-Bias Problem – A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect? Expect Becky to be lecturing you on your caste privilege soon!

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It’s Bangladesh after Sri Lanka: Protests erupt over 52% fuel price hike: Following the tragic situation in Sri Lanka, thousands of demonstrators flocked to the streets in many Bangladeshi cities when the Sheikh Hasina administration raised fuel prices to their highest level since the neighbouring nation’s independence by about 52%. Global supply shocks due to … Continue reading The flip side of globalization

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The new Rings of Power series debuts on September 2nd, so they have a new trailer out. I’m skeptical, but they pulled all the stops for the effects. My expectation […]

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I feel I may have read Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History but I don’t recall reading it. So I’m reading it. […]

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‘We are going to die’: Food shortages add to Sri Lanka’s woes.

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Happy Mother’s Day! Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s ouvre is appropriate, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, The Woman That Never Evolved and Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How […]

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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann is worth reading. It’s mostly science, and not too much about von Neumann’s personal life, though there is […]

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What’s going on? Some Twitter controversy around Aurangzeb.

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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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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 … Continue reading Open Thread – 4/1/2022 – Brown Pundits

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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 … Continue reading Open Thread – Brown Pundits – 3/18/2022

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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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