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Glenn Loury: four decades in economics
Ascolta ora (55 min) | From econometrics to public policy
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Genomic data “eating the world”
What do we plan to do about it?Most of you have probably seen the NHGRI chart that illustrates the crash in the sequencing cost per human genome. To get some perspective, it cost $3 billion to sequence the first human genome over ten years in the year …
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The prehistoric genetic roots of the Chinese
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib explores the history of China through the lens of genetics and ancient DNA. This podcast is a companion to the recent two pieces, Genetic history with Chinese characteristics and Venerable Ancestors: untan…
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Virginia Postrel: from synthetic meat to synthetic fabric
Listen now (67 min) | The cultural politics of lab-grown meat and the economic history of fabric
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GenRAIT goes to PAG 30
Furthering the life science data revolution in plant and animal genomicsRazib Khan, Taylor Capito, and Santanu Das at PAG 30During the second week of January 2023, the GenRAIT leadership team attended the Plant & Animal Genome Conference in San Die…
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What the Neanderthal could do
These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’ – A study of butchered bones from 125,000 years ago offers what researchers call “the first clear-cut evidence of elephant-hunting in human […]
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They forgot to teach and advise
Survey: Many MIT Faculty Fear Speaking Freely While Students Support Barring Speakers with Opposing Views: The MIT survey shows that we are raising the most speech-intolerant generation in our history […]
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Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto
Every nationality or cultural group should have a song done like this. I’m writing a Substack on Vikings, who were quite nasty in many ways, but popular culture songs like this make them seem “bad ass.”
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Madagascar: where Asia and Africa met
For the complete version of this podcast check out razib.substack.com On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the origins of the people of Madagascar in a companion podcast to his two-part series on the genetics and history of the isla…
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Charles Fain Lehman: homicide, death in the charts
Listen now (61 min) | Reflecting on the 2020’s crime boomlet
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 02/02/2023
Winter’s end is nigh edition
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American University in Delhi?
India might open to foreign universities. That could be a game-changer: And India’s higher education system badly needs shaking up. Setting aside issues of quality (as if those can be set aside), India does not come close to providing sufficient seats to those aspiring to higher education — a glaring shortcoming as India’s burgeoning middle…
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Open Thread: Ash and Elm…
I’m rereading Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings, along with some other books on the Vikings and Scandinavians. Also revisiting papers like Population genomics of Mesolithic […]
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Hindenburg vs. Adnani
Don’t know much about this, but I noticed it hit WSJ today, India’s Adani Group Fails to Halt Short-Seller Driven Decline: A giant Indian conglomerate couldn’t stop the freefall in its shares and bonds set off by an American short seller in what has grown into a bitter fight over the empire created by one…
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The prehistoric genetic roots of the Chinese
Listen now (81 min) | The 50,000 year adventure
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The genetics of an Odisha Brahmin
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Open Thread, 1/27/2022, Brown Pundits
Some stuff from my Substack: Genetic history with Chinese characteristics – How two Bronze-Age tribes became the world’s 1.3 billion Han (without even changing much genetically) and Venerable Ancestors: untangling the Chinese people’s hybrid Pleistocene origins origins – More than 40,000 years of human evolution in East Asia. I’ve written more about India because it’s…
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Venerable Ancestors: untangling the Chinese people’s hybrid Pleistocene origins origins
More than 40,000 years of human evolution in East Asia
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Jonathan Anomaly: To Make a Better World
On this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Jonathan Anomaly, author of Creating Future People: The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement. Anomaly is currently the director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at La Universidad…
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Genetic history with Chinese characteristics
How two Bronze-Age tribes became the world’s 1.3 billion Han (without even changing much genetically)