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Samuel McIlhagga: the UK as a zombie nation
Listen now (93 min) | Is the British adventure over?
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Samuel McIlhagga: the UK as a zombie nation
Listen now (93 min) | Is the British adventure over?
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People of lower castes have bad personalities
Making the Elite: Top Jobs, Disparities, and Solutions: How do socioeconomically unequal screening practices impact access to elite firms and what policies might reduce inequality? Using personnel data from elite U.S. and European multinational corporations recruiting from an elite Indian college, I show that caste disparities in hiring do not arise in many job search…
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Lee Fang: investigative journalism and investigating journalists
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to journalist Lee Fang. Formerly an investigative reporter at The Intercept and a contributing writer at The Nation, Fang began his journalism career at ThinkProgress. As an undergraduate, Fang was …
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How non-Africans came to be….
Most of the history of the human species is in Africa, which is why I wrote a Substack trying to outline what I think are various alternative models about what’s […]
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Early Maghrebis are Eurasian back-migration
A new ancient DNA paper from Northwest Africa: Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant: In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400 years […]
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Moderate population structure out-of-Africa
A few weeks ago I wrote on my Substack about a new model of African H. sapiens genesis that assumes recurrent gene flow between deeply divergent populations within the continent. […]
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Open Thread – 06/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
A Look at Brooklyn’s Little Bangladesh.
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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