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Maxim Lott: getting to the truth of the matter
Listen now (58 min) | Two years of pandemics, moral panics and epistemological tribalism
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The replacement of the Neandersovan Y and mtDNA?
Harvard Magazine has a nice piece up on David Reich’s biography and research. The section where Reich addresses the strange issues regarding Neanderthals jumped out at me, as I’ve had […]
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Open Thread – 7/17/2022 – Gene Expression
The new Rings of Power series debuts on September 2nd, so they have a new trailer out. I’m skeptical, but they pulled all the stops for the effects. My expectation […]
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Manvir Singh correct transcript link
Apologies for the second email, but I used the incorrect link for the Manvir Singh podcast written transcript (I assume most of you are not interested in a .vcf file). Guess it goes to show that I shouldn’t multitask. But if you want the transcript to my podcast with Manvir Singh, here is the correct…
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Dr. Iona Italia: a cosmopolitan liberal in an identitarian age
Dr. Iona Italia’s name often perplexes the public, but it’s entirely explicable considering her background. Her late father was from the Parsi community of the Indian subcontinent. Descendants of Persians who continued to adhere to the Zoroastrian reli…
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Manvir Singh: beyond anthropological dreams
Listen now (58 min) | Against primitive communism and primitive foragers
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Only the inner party
For about two decades after the Presidency of Andrew Jackson, the South dominated American politics. True, there were Northerners like Martin van Buren who became President, but they headed a […]
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The Indian migration to Southeast Asia
Ancient DNA from Protohistoric Period Cambodia indicates that South Asians admixed with local populations as early as 1st-3rd centuries CE: Indian cultural influence is remarkable in present-day Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), and it may have stimulated early state formation in the region. Various present-day populations in MSEA harbor a low level of South Asian ancestry,…
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Noah Smith on the Sri Lankan crisis
A textbook currency crisis, triggered by a bunch of policy mistakes.
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Open Thread – 07/11/2022 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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More than 1 year of the steppe
Over at my Substack I’ve spent more than a year writing about the cultural and genetic impact of the Eurasian steppe. I’ve put out a large number of essays, so […]
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Stuart Buck: making 21st-century science better
How do we make science in the 21st century better? Stuart Buck, Executive Director of the Good Science Project has some ideas. More concretely, Buck is part of a broader movement of researchers, activists and philanthropists reimagining how science can…
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A Hun by any other name
On the genetic trail of Europe’s enduring bête noire
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The Toda are different
A new paper on Southwest Indian genetics highlights the Toda sample from Genomes Asia. People in the comments of this weblog have asserted this small southern tribe may have the most “Indus Valley Civilization” ancestry in the subcontinent. This is perhaps an exaggeration, but, looking at the admixture plots the Toda clearly have hardly any…
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Global 25 is good, but a minor issue
ArainGang, has posted a pretty interesting map of various ancestry components in the subcontinent by population. It’s pretty good, especially for the south and west of the subcontinent. But, there is something weird going on in the northeast: a lot of these populations have “Ancestral Indian” (Andamanese) ancestry but hardly anything else East Asian. This…
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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RKUL: Time Well Spent 07/07/2022
The Survey Edition
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Vikings need to be tamed
Our godless society still fears the pagan past
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Judge Glock: it’s still morning in America!
Listen now (75 min) | An economic historian makes the case for being positive about the US