Author Archives: Razib Khan

Listen now (88 mins) | The historical roots of radicalism

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Listen now (88 mins) | The historical roots of radicalism

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Listen now (48 mins) | The law and politics behind the Awokening

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Listen now (80 mins) | The global and historical context of caste

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Well, here we are. Razib and Amey talk about Sri Lankan genetics, casteism or lack thereof in the USA, the FUBAR of American immigration and finally how William Dalrymple triggers Amey’s Maratha pride. Since I haven’t asked in a while, please review positively on Apple and Spotify. Also, if you want to support the hosting … Continue reading The 100th Browncast with Amey the Maratha

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The elite diaspora have globalisation etched into their bones

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I am planning on doing a podcast on caste this week for my Substack this week. (here are my posts on the topic)

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Back-to-school edition

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Listen now (81 mins) | Indo-European origins in 2023

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This Politic piece on caste in America is pretty balanced. But one thing that this “Indian Americans are so casteist” discourse misses is that 85% of Indian American Hindus are “General Category”, with a few percent being Dalits or Scheduled Tribes (the remainder are OBC). There aren’t many low caste people to discriminate against, but … Continue reading The creation of Homo General Category

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I’ve fascinated by regions that border each other and have very different fertilities. For example, Saudi Arabia has a TFR of 2.2 and Yemen one of 4. Today it looks like Bihar has a fertility of around 3.0 and West Bengal 1.6. Bihar surpassed West Bengal in the late 1990’s, and is still more populous … Continue reading Fear of a Bihari nation

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interestingly (or not?) these guys are from kerala, while the other guy is from tamil nadu. is track and field stuff just more popular in south india? https://t.co/KwRTTpQvLv — Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) September 3, 2023

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interestingly (or not?) these guys are from kerala, while the other guy is from tamil nadu. is track and field stuff just more popular in south india? https://t.co/KwRTTpQvLv — Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) September 3, 2023

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Reconstructing the population history of Sinhalese, the major ethnic group in Śrī Laṅkā: Interestingly, we found an unexpected excess of smaller chunks sharing between Marāṭhā and Sinhala (>16%) than the Marāṭhā and STU, thus supporting the linguistic hypothesis of Geiger, Turner and van Driem. To confirm the excess sharing, we looked for the population which … Continue reading Sri Lanka Genetics

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Listen now (82 mins) | Consciousness at the heart of neuroscience

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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Aporia Magazine’s Diana Fleischman, an evolutionary psychologist who earned her Ph.D. in David Buss’ lab at the University of Texas in Austin. Fleischman discusses the origins of her field, its me…

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The millennial Republican is perfectly suited to the ruling class

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https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack and original video content. Today Razib talks to Lyman Stone, a demographer and Ph.D. candidate at McGill University, about the fall, rise and fall of re…

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https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack and original video content. Today Razib talks to Lyman Stone, a demographer and Ph.D. candidate at McGill University, about the fall, rise and fall of re…

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A quite repetitive piece in The Wall Street Journal, What’s Holding Back India’s Economic Ambitions? Just 24% of women in India are working or looking for work. In the American upper-middle-class women not working is a sign of affluence a conscious choice to focus on investing in child-rearing rather than consumption. But this section jumped … Continue reading Female labor force participation in India

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