Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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The re-enchantment of the world
Nature Human Behaviour has a new editorial that has to be read in full to understand what’s going on in academia today, Science must respect the dignity and rights of […]
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How Britain haunts America
Historical battles still stalk the United States
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How Britain haunts America
The rhetoric of modern America is dominated by the paradigm of a biracial nation, but history is never black and white. Fissures between national and ethnic traditions have always been at the heart of its political conflict. Their significance is highlighted in David Hackett Fischer’s Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America and Kevin Phillips’s…
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How Britain haunts America
Historical battles still stalk the United States
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They’re all Greeks to me (part 2)
Farmers, Minoans, Mycenaeans and Slavs
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The genetic future is here
In the year 2000, there was one single human genome. In 2010 there were fewer than 100 human genomes (you could look them up in a spreadsheet!). Today there are likely 1,000,000 human genomes. Good luck cataloging them all. Outside of the purview of our species, there are now efforts to sequence every animal on…
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They’re all Greeks to me (part 1)
Gazing upon the genes of Agamemnon
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Ed West: Albion past and future
Despite the fundamental reality that the US exists thanks to a rebellion against the power of the British Crown in the 1700’s, for the last century, the two dominant English-speaking powers have enjoyed a relatively positive geopolitical relationship. …
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Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
Listen now (69 min) | Population genetic clusters carved around the joints of D-statistics
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House of the Dragon
This looks better than Rings of Power.
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American is more secular than it was a generation ago
The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed, Religion Is Dying? Don’t Believe It Many of the ‘Nones’ aren’t secular; they belong to minority faiths. The problem is how to count […]
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Indra is absolved: The “caste system” predates the Indo-Aryans
In the near future the ancient DNA group led by David Reich will publish a bunch of stuff, and one paper will note that the variation in steppe ancestry in […]
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Ethan Strauss: the sports journalism disruptor is in the house
Spectator sports are a massive cross-cultural phenomenon in the modern world, from cricket in India to football in Europe and American football in the US. In the middle of the 20th century, commentary on sports was generally found in newspapers that al…
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Open Thread – 08/12/2022 – Brown Pundits
Google’s Caste-Bias Problem – A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect? Expect Becky to be lecturing you on your caste privilege soon!
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Jason Walters: from Salafism to Sarte
Listen now (110 min) | An ex-radical Islamist speaks
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 08/08/2022
The Summer Drought Edition
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The Data Platform for the Genomic Revolution
Introducing GenRAIT to the post-genomic eraThe human genetic map became reality in the first two decades of the 21st century. This was the dream of a century of genetics, laboriously tracing pedigrees across families decade after decade. But the combin…
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Maxim Lott: getting to the truth of the matter
About a month ago, during a COVID-19 wave, I saw a Substack post, How to Get Paxlovid Quickly, If You Get Covid – How to get the 89%-effective Covid cure called Paxlovid, despite government red tape, shared across various group chats. For non-Americans…
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The flip side of globalization
It’s Bangladesh after Sri Lanka: Protests erupt over 52% fuel price hike: Following the tragic situation in Sri Lanka, thousands of demonstrators flocked to the streets in many Bangladeshi cities when the Sheikh Hasina administration raised fuel prices to their highest level since the neighbouring nation’s independence by about 52%. Global supply shocks due to…
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Ed West: Albion past and future
Listen now (83 min) | English history and its special relationship with America