Category: Open Thread

This is the thread where you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. I am curious about how people view the lockdown and India’s response to, and experience, with COVID-19. Thoughts? (also, you can talk about whatever so long as it’s not vulgar or spam)

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Talk about what you want to talk about. How is everyone holding up in lockdown?

For 2020 I’ve probably had an unhealthy obsession with Covid-19. But you need to read and watch other things too. Staying with the “plague” theme, Plagues and People is probably the most important book in terms of influence on me. – The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. In my “too…

Thread to talk about whatever you want. What’s going in under lockdown???

Talk about what you want. I assume even if you are dying of COVID-19 it will be something about Hindu/India vs. Muslims/Pakistan. (we’ll be recording a podcast on COVID-19 with Kushal Mehra if you have any questions for him)

Talk about whatever you want. Perhaps the Pakistani readers can brag about how they surpass Indians in covid-19 infections?

Talk about whatever you want.

Another BP Podcast is up. You can listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify,  and Stitcher (and a variety of other platforms). Probably the easiest way to keep up the podcast since we don’t have a regular schedule is to subscribe to one of the links above! d You can also support the podcast as a patron. The primary benefit now is that you get…

In ancient Republican Rome a dictator was appointed for a fixed time for a fixed task. Lucius Cornelius Sulla was one of those dictators. If you haven’t, I recommend Sulla: The Last Republican. locStra: Fast analysis of regional/global stratification in whole genome sequencing (WGS) studies. Their Campaign Jobs Just Dried Up. And on Venmo, the…

The usual. Please post random thoughts here (OK, real-talk, post your Indo-Pak flamewars here).fopen thr    

I’ve been obsessing about COVID-19. It’s shocking to how many people seem unaware of the massive variation in risk of mortality based on age. There seems to be some heterogeneity when it comes to depleted shelves in grocery stores. For example, we went to a market where many Latinos shop, and it was pretty calm.…

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Peter Turchin has put up a very positive review of a book, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History. Some people take my own recommendations to heart. I take Peter’s options to heart (Peter was the one who suggested Strange Parallels to me). New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed. I’ve talked to several…

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Finally reading The Last Pagans of Rome, and it is a really good read. The late author, Alan Cameron, is highly erudite and has strong opinions. It reads somewhat like a lawyerly argument, and I doubt many are knowledgeable enough to evaluate it in full (I’m not), but it’s a fascinating anthropology of the changing…

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