Razib Khan

Month: June 2019

  • Urbanization in the 21st-century

  • The world turned upside down

    They are told it’s the Kali Yuga, and they rejoice! The Dharma and the Dao are needful As they are what not to do! Striving to virtue is sin, Abnegation of indulgence the ultimate betrayal of self. There is no god above to glorify, Just a sense …

  • Genetic change, cultural coherency, and social structure

    A stupid commenter (SC) below keeps opining that the high frequency of R1a across South Asia is due to non-paternity events (NPE). I’m not quite sure SC knows what NPE is. It is, “when someone who is presumed to be an individual’s father is not in fact the biological father.” The hypothesis presented seems to…

  • Why the Diaspora is not as interesting to me

    A friend of the podcast mentioned with a bit of surprise that so much of it was focused on India as opposed to the Indian Diaspora (you can substitute “South Asia(n)” into “India(n)”). When this weblog was started at the end of 2010 it was probably more Diasporic in orientation. That was the era when…

  • Open Thread – Brown Pundits

    Please keep the other posts on topic. Use this for talking about whatever you want to talk about.

  • What The All-Father Means

    Readers of this weblog may sometimes notice that I break out in pompous and self-important declarations of being a “scion of the All-Father.” This is basically a joke. But, it’s a joke that draws from a legitimate basis of science and mythology. The “All-Father” is another name for Odin. I’m really talking about Indra, who…

  • The genetics of obesity is about the environment

    An American classicIn the 1960s the average American man weighed 166 pounds. Today, the average American man weighs 195 pounds. In the 1960s the average American woman weighed 140 pounds. Today, the average American woman weighs 166 pounds. According t…

  • Obesity and genetic prediction

    Razib talks to a researcher who developed a method to predict extreme obesity looking at genetic profiles. Show notes: https://pxlme.me/76367O2I

  • The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 31: Obesity & Genetic Prediction

    The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 31: Obesity & Genetic PredictionThis week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts) Razib talks to Dr. Amit Khera, a cardiologist, and geneticist. We talk about the relationsh…

  • Between Marx and the mullah

    There is a lot of talk on this weblog about deaths in premodern conflicts. I want to clarify a few points, at least from my perspective. Both ancient DNA and conventional history and archaeology indicate that massive population turnovers occurred in the past. If you read a book like Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire,…

  • BrownCast Podcast episode 47: Game of Thrones with Jennifer Raff and Patrick Wyman

    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 earlier than…

  • To understand Islam one must understand religion

    Over the last few months, the traffic on this website has increased. The proportion of pageviews from India is now approaching parity with the proportion from the USA. To me, this suggests that perhaps it would be useful to outline a few things anyone who has read me in the past would probably know, but…

  • Gene Expression status update

    Since people keep asking, I will post here (it will post to my total feed). Gene Expression the website kept maxing the shared hosting plan’s CPU a few weeks ago. I took it down because I didn’t want our host to blacklist it. When I have some time to spare that’s continuous I will get…

  • Open Thread – Brown Pundits

    Please keep the other posts on topic. Use this for talking about whatever you want to talk about.

  • Since 1989

    China is an authoritarian, in some ways totalitarian, nation-state. But we need to keep the larger perspective in mind as well. Judge a society by how the odds are for the least of them.

  • Evolution and human family

    1950s nuclear family in the USAFor many people who grew up in the United States in the years after World War II, it was a time of stability and a return to old verities and values. In those decades one saw the flourishing of the “nuclear family.” Mothe…

  • Browncast Ep 45: Jordan Anaya on “data thuggery”

    Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, 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 earlier than…

  • Evolution of Family

    Razib discusses the evolutionary and ecological context of human families with Dr. Rebecca Sear. https://blog.insito.me/the-insight-show-notes-season-2-episode-30-evolution-of-family-5f8db79194d9

  • The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 30: Evolution of Family

    The Insight Show Notes — Season 2, Episode 30: Evolution of FamilyThis week on The Insight (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts) Razib talks to Dr. Rebecca Sear, a behavioral ecologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi…

  • Browncast Ep 44: Game of Thrones, part 1

    Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, 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 earlier than…

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