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The creation of Homo General Category
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…
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Fear of a Bihari nation
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…
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Is track and field more popular in South India?
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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Is track and field more popular in South India?
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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Alex S. Young and James J. Lee: quantitative genetics in 2023
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks with Alex Young of UCLA and James Lee of the University of Minnesota about quantitative genetics and its relationship to complex traits and the genomic revolution. Young, trained as a mathematician, …
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Sri Lanka Genetics
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…
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Erik Hoel: The World Behind the World
Listen now (82 mins) | Consciousness at the heart of neuroscience
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Diana Fleischman: evolution, sex and eugenics
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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Vivek Ramaswamy and the rise of Indian America
The millennial Republican is perfectly suited to the ruling class
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Vivek Ramaswamy and the rise of Indian America
The millennial Republican is perfectly suited to the ruling class
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Vivek Ramaswamy and the rise of Indian America
Crammed together on a crowded stage during the first Republican debate of 2023, two figures stood out: 38-year-old Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy, a biotech millionaire with a Harvard pedigree, and 51-year-old Nimrata Haley (née Randhawa), an accountant, former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations. Like 58-year-old Kamala Devi Harris, America’s Vice President,…
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Vivek Ramaswamy and the rise of Indian America
Crammed together on a crowded stage during the first Republican debate of 2023, two figures stood out: 38-year-old Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy, a biotech millionaire with a Harvard pedigree, and 51-year-old Nimrata Haley (née Randhawa), an accountant, former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations. Like 58-year-old Kamala Devi Harris, America’s Vice President,…
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Vivek Ramaswamy and the rise of Indian America
The millennial Republican is perfectly suited to the ruling class
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Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default?
Listen now (68 mins) | The many-headed hydra of “internet culture”
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Katherine Dee: Is Twitter just our default?
Listen now (68 mins) | The many-headed hydra of “internet culture”
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Nicola Buskirk: old books for a new generation
https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack and original video content. On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nicola Buskirk of Elessar Books (see her Substack). A 2022 graduate o…
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Hannah Frankman: unlearning the lessons of the past
https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack and original video content. On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Hannah Frankman about the past, present and future of educatio…
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Lyman Stone: God is dead, long live the Lord!
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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Lyman Stone: God is dead, long live the Lord!
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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Female labor force participation in India
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…