Razib Khan’s Content Aggregation Site
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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
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Kansas abortion proposition vs. Trump support 2020
No big surprises it seems. The r-squared of between 2020 election and 2022 ballot measure is ~0.80, so 80% of the variance in the second can be predicted by variance […]
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Varna is Indo-European and jati is Indian
A casual comment…most Indo-European societies seem to have originally had some sort of occupational caste system. I’m talking here of Dumezil’s trifunctional hypothesis, warrior, priest and commoner. But only the Indian subcontinent has jati. I was thinking about it when reflecting on work to come out soon from David Reich’s lab on ancient Pontic steppe ancestry…
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Manvir Singh: beyond anthropological dreams
What if everything you learned about anthropology turned out to be wrong? Well, OK, maybe not everything, but some very important things. Today Razib talks to Manvir Singh about primitive communism and misconceptions about hunter-gatherers, what anthro…
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I wanna be like you
What we talk about when we compare chimps to humans genetically
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Thank God the British are working on South Asian genomics
The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank: We defined two other cohorts based on ancestry: African (XAF; n = 9,633; Extended Data Fig. 4) and South Asian (XSA; n = 9,252; Extended Data Fig. 5) (Fig. 3a–c). The 37,598 UKB individuals who do not belong to XBI, XAF or XSA were assigned to the cohort OTH (others).…
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But why is the lactase persistent allele not in HWE?
Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe: In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations, lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic […]
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Ethan Strauss: the sports journalism disruptor is in the house
Listen now (100 min) | The author of the #1 sports Substack speaks
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On the collaboration with Dry.io
I mentioned this in my latest Time Well Spent (a recurring feature of my newsletter), but I’ve started a collab with a firm called dry.io. On its website they say […]
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Built to Last: Continuity in Japanese Genetics
A nation endures across the millennia