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More Sikhs in Canada than India proportionally
Seems like Sikhs are 2.1% of Canada’s population, and 1.7% of India’s population. Massive migration over the last decade to Canada…
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Dr. Amanda Vondras: standing on the shoulders of giants
https://medium.com/media/703b1c9872ad474e6f2037e17ac20c1b/hrefThis weekend Amandra Vondras, GenRAIT’s Director of Science, went on David McKay’s podcast, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. She discussed her background as a molecular biologist, her pa…
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Population structure in South Asian – Genomes Asian 1K paper
The full version of this paper is out, South Asian medical cohorts reveal strong founder effects and high rates of homozygosity. It’s not the best for understanding population structure because they focus on within South Asia variation, but it does seem to confirm that among Bengalis there is a cline from west to east, irrespective…
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Elizabeth Jones: ancient DNA as “celebrity science”
Listen now (55 min) | Paleogenetics from 1990 to 2015
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Elizabeth Jones: ancient DNA as “celebrity science”
Listen now (55 min) | Paleogenetics from 1990 to 2015
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Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib hosts Ross Douthat, author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save…
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2023
June Heat Edition
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 06/06/2023
June Heat Edition
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Samo Burja: China’s future, Russia’s present and archaeology’s past
On this week’s Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back a favorite repeat guest, Samo Burja, to discuss matters future, present and past. Burja founded the consulting firm Bismarck Analysis and developed the “great founder theory.” He contributes to P…
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Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
In 1968, Stanford ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich, published The Population Bomb, arguing that rapid growth in human numbers would result in environmental catastrophe and widespread famine. Overall the dire predictions of The Population Bomb did not come to …
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Lillian Tara: more babies for a better world
In 1968, Stanford ecologist Paul R. Ehrlich, published The Population Bomb, arguing that rapid growth in human numbers would result in environmental catastrophe and widespread famine. Overall the dire predictions of The Population Bomb did not come to …
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Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
Listen now (67 min) | Corruption, corruption, everywhere
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Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
Listen now (67 min) | Corruption, corruption, everywhere
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Timothy B. Lee: don’t rage against the machine
A few years ago now, Razib talked to Tim Lee about his new Substack Full Stack Economics, which featured deep dives into economic issues (as well as some on-the-ground-reporting, like when he drove Lyft to get a feel for its economics). But recently, L…
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The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization
Recently, scientists discovered that a two-year mega-drought beginning in 1198 BC hastened the Hittite Empire’s collapse. The finding sheds new light on the history of the decades around 1200 BC, adding specificity to the timing and cause for the perio…
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Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia
On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Peter Nimitz, the author behind the Nemets Substack, which explores topics as diverse as the 2014 Donbass War and the likelihood of Eurasian migration into Chad thousands of years ago…
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Current status: it’s complicated
Getting over Out-of-Africa, our rebound in the meantime and the quest for a forever theory
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Current status: it’s complicated
Getting over Out-of-Africa, our rebound in the meantime and the quest for a forever theory
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Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
Listen now (66 min) | Why do adults read non-realistic fiction?
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Ross Douthat: fantasy and the literary imagination
Listen now (66 min) | Why do adults read non-realistic fiction?