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The multiculturalist Empire
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’ Persians: The Age of the Great Kings is a narrative history of the Achaemenid Empire and ancient Iran which is brisk but detailed. Some of the writing is […]
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 12/12/2022
It’s almost Christmas edition
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Open Thread, 12/9/2022, Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Joshua Lipson, Aric Lomes and Leo Cooper: the medieval origins of the Ashkenazim
Listen now (104 min) | A new paper upends and clarifies questions about the origins of the Jews of Europe
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Eurocentrism, the West, and white supremacy
https://razib.substack.com This is where you will find all the podcasts from Razib Khan’s Substack, https://razib.substack.com, and original video content. What does it mean to be Eurocentric? What does it mean to be a white supremacist? What does the…
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A vision for solving India’s caste social crises
My personal belief is that jati-varna was one of the major reasons that India did not Islamicize more than it did. These sub-elite solidities “absorbed” external shocks and mediated individual relationships with the world. Collective entities like this are common across the world, but the genetic distinctiveness of these groups is like nothing you see…
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The the origins of the false moral panic about caste in the USA
Caste discrimination in the US, again…Brown University bans caste discrimination throughout campus in a first for the Ivy League. These stories are strange and silly on some level. But they are serious on another level. Multiple young brown American men have told me that they have been asked about their caste by white colleagues, usually…
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Faces of women of the world
I’m going to use Midjourney to add art to my Substack, but sometimes you get obsessed with stuff. I decided to generate images of female faces with the prompt: beautiful [ethnicity/nationality] woman, portrait, photograph, cinematic, white wall Then I picked what I thought was the most neutral face focused of the four images. I upscaled…
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Quillette Social, January 7th, 2022
I’ll be at the Quillette Social on January 7th, 2023. For about 5 minutes I’ll probably talk, along with the other guests. The list includes: Claire Lehmann Jon Kay Jamie […]
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Western Hunter-Gatherer woman, Neolithic farmer man, Yamnaya man
The last day or so I’ve been using Midjourney to create AI art. The reason is not that I’m artistic, I’m not really at all. Rather, I want to create […]
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Proud of Rho Khanna
Recently Ann Coulter mentioned that Indians don’t have the same concept of free speech that Americans do. That is totally true and evident on these message boards. Ann’s concern is that the Indian-enriched tech work-force won’t see any problems with censoring offensive speech since that’s the norm in their society. That being said, my chest…
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The unreal voyages and trials of Madagascar’s Malagasy people
Of rice and men
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You can’t make this up: Madagascar, how our planet’s strangest island was settled
The unreal journeys of Madagascar’s Malagasy People
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Garett Jones: The Culture Transplant – How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses the new book, The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left, with author Garett Jones. Jones is a professor of economics at George Mason Unive…
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Michael Bonner: Iran’s Sassanid Empire
Listen now (64 min) | After Darius before Ali: the Empire forgotten to memory
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First AASI mtDNA genomes from Sri Lanka (2500 and 5500 BC)
The mitochondrial genomes of two Pre-historic Hunter Gatherers in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean connected by the sea routes of the Western and Eastern worlds. Although settlements of anatomically modern humans date back to 48,000 years, to date there is no genetic information on pre-historic individuals in Sri Lanka.…
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Cody Moser: Universal Baby Talk
How is it that babies across entirely different cultures seemingly elicit one single sort of “baby talk” from adults? To answer this question, Razib talks to Cody Moser, coauthor of a recent paper on the topic, and an evolutionary psychologist and cult…
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Cyber Monday 50% discount, plus who I read and why
Substack savings, reading lists and my must-read newsletters
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Cyber Monday 50% discount, plus who I read and why
Substack savings, reading lists and my must-read newsletters
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So you want to test your DNA
A genomicist tells you what tests are worth it for you, and why