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Open Thread – 09/09/2022 – Brown Pundits
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 09/09/2022
Almost Autumn Edition
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Razib Khan: surveys of the great ancient human DNA Diasporas
This week takes The Unsupervised Learning podcast in a somewhat different direction. In response to a common listener request, Razib takes on his first “one-man-show,” digging into his stores of knowledge of the population genetics of ancient peoples a…
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Rings of Power, first two episodes, initial reaction
Good – they spent much of the massive budget on decent special effects. The scenery and setting were often great – the Hobbits are weird, but the main Hobbit character […]
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Razib Khan: the “southern arc” and Indo-European origins
Listen now (64 min) | Where were the Indo-Europeans from?
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Jason Walters: from Salafism to Sartre
The recent killing by Ayman al-Zawahiri, erstwhile leader of al-Qaeda, brought many Americans back to awareness of an era that has been fading, the decade of the “War on Terror” that dominated geopolitics after the 9/11 terrorism attack. The World Trad…
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Only from the mind of Martin: a perfect inbred queen
Disentangling the hard reality of inbreeding from Game of Thrones’ fantasy
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Indo-European phylogeny
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Ancient DNA Selection Paper Just Dropped!
1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe: Ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human population history. However, its potential to examine how rapid cultural evolution […]
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Katherine Brodsky: from internet entrepreneur to cultural commentator
Listen now (83 min) | Dispatches from the online elder millennial
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The southern arc papers
Since David has not posted, here they are… The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe: By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern […]
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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